The west shore., May 01, 1884, Page 136, Image 12

THE WEST SHORE.
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this class of
The granite was fire-formed, or igneous
rocks were water-formed, or aqueous, -----
nn ,tl . . At first the aqueous rocks have a s ratified
"Ice. The heat from the JJ
r!l, ping into them, in many cases has resulted in
tLoir being melted, and in all cases caused them to to
transformed inconsequence of becoming ;so heated that
on cooling they have crystalled. Tins has given them
the nMORranoe of igneous rock, yet the geologis experi
ences no difficulty in distinguishing them from he fare
AVlmn the dissolved granite is laid down on
the IhmI of an ucean, whose waters are much disturbed, so
iw to intimately mix the detritus, the new formed rock
u lll P.ntiun nil the inirredionts of granite, but in a finer
form and in layem Thin is called gneiss (pronounced
"nice," but not a nice way to spell it). The quartz of
wanito. wound to powder, if undisturbed by the action
of the water, would, by pressure of the water, form sand
ntono. If this sandstone is heated and cooled it will be
metamorphosed into quartzite. Under similar circum
stances the feldspar forms beds of shale, which the heat
will metamorphose into slate, such as is UBed for roofing,
and on which children write. This must seem strange to
them to know that the material of which their slates were
mndo has loon dissolved from, or washed out of, the
granite. The mica, operated upon in like manner, forms
tho mica-shiHts, or mica-slates, used for flagging the
streets.
W now havo an idea of how the granitic and meta
morphio rocks were formed; tho first " primary," the last
" stvondary." It was during their formation that the old
geologmta Hiipposed that there could have been no life,
and hence they styled it tho " azoic ago." And viewed
by one unfamiliar with science, no life is discoverable
during that ago. No bird spread its pinions on the
heated air; no toast trod upon the hot earth; no fish
swam in the prisonous waters, steaming from heated rock
tonenth, against which unceasingly lushed the waves of
fire. Hut the earth, millions of years old, yet still in her
infancy, was marching steadily on. The infinite intelli
gence, which forever foresees, had long been engaged in
prewiring our planet as a dwelling plnce for man. The
, "" """" ,mvo wu "l. the azoic age past, and
as w
OUR INDUSTRIES AND RESOTJROE8.
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uiM.forth we shall find the animate with the inanimate,
we watoh the progress of evolution.
W. H. Chaney.
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. .U.U...K, nurrying man, as a matter of fact, is a
lr worker. Too much of hi. m Iower isj
" k ok.ng up duHt Tho habit of hurrying and of ee
m .Hint of work a good man can accomplish. The
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bustle, Kwtom -in 1. ?. lr np,V0U8 ce in
energy.
N the early mining times of 1849-60 many houses were
imported from New York and set up in Ore?
There were few sawmills, no planing, no tongue and
grooving and no molding machines. Carpenters were
paid $6 to $10 per day. lhe California demand was so
great that lumber rose from $16 to $100 per thousand
feet. Twenty-four light sash, 10x12 glass, cost $24 per
window. Blinds and doors cost from $8 to $25 each.
Rough lumber, though reduced in price by machinery
hardly pays its cost. The output of 500,000,000 feet from
the merchant mills of Oregon and Washington in 1883,
had it all been exported rough, at $14 per thousand,
would have given the producers only a very small profit
Skilled labor and machinery add 100 per cent to planed
lumber; 200 per cent to that used for doors; 300 per
cent to that used for sash, and 500 per cent to that used
for moldings.
Sash and door factories have multiplied in cities and
villages. The quality of buildings has improved in
much the same ratio as the time and cost have been
diminished. Five hundred thousand dollars worth of
these finishings were produced by the Portland factories
last year. The other factories of Oregon and Washington,
as estimated, added $300,000 worth, making the whole
product of this branch of industry $800,000, of which
$600,000 may be credited to skilled labor applied to raw
materials. This large sum was paid for home manufac
tures at the mills and kept in circulation. It is like
blood flowing from the heart to build up and strengthen
the body in ceaseless current. What we pay for im
ported goods returns only in much smaller sums to pay
foi raw materials. Why buy pine doors and sash and
blinds in San Francisco, when we can make better ones
of cedar at home ? Why enrich the laborers of other
States at the expense of our fellow-workers ? Why stop
the wheels of industry, when the skilled operatives are
waiting at the doors ? Far better are full warehouses
and lower prices than idle artisans and silent Bhops. The
stagnation of business, like that of blood, means not only
distress, but death also. -
Time was when all the. furniture we had, except tie
rudest sort, was freighted to us from California or tne
Atlantic Coast Those who first ventured to mamuaciiin
were warned of a relentless competition. Foreign trade
marks were flaunted in the face of buyers and venaoi
A tub, a pail and a broom are essentials in the kitehen.
One firm found it difficult ten years ago to sell their first
4,000, the product of six months' work, in the next sfl
months. Last year they Bold 25,000 on orders, and their
sales in cash were $50,000. The home product h
largely won the field. All its markets are open
reduction to the buyer of nearly 40 per cent, and on
better goods than the imported. ,
Uedroom and parlor sets of all grades ironi -
more than misdirected
manufactories have cumbered our warehouses unij i
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recently, for sale at high first cost, witn uw
commissions, storage, wharfage, cartage, boxing-