LIME, AND HOW IT IS PRODUCED.
no
gives the following proportion of ingre
dients :
Carbonate of lime .80.4
Silica :.. 3.1
Carbonate of magnesia 5.3
Oxide of iron 2.2
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It lies at a distance of about three
hundred miles from Portland, and close
beside the track of the Oregon & Cali
fornia railroad, by which the rock is
transported to Portland It is of the
variety known as crystAlized limestone,
belonging to the same class as marble.
It is really a veined and clouded mar
ble, and although not adapted for the
finer purposes of statuary, it makes a
very excellent and durable stone for all
building purposes, for which use the
company has proposed it
Some small, and at present unavaila
ble, limestone deposits exist along the
foot-hills of the Cascade and Coast ranges
within the Willamette valley notably
in Polk and Clackamas counties. They
are of the variety knowu as shell lime
stone, being composed almost exclusive
ly of the fossil shells of innumerable
marine animals. Shells produce, ordi-
narily, a very good article of lime, when
calcined, but the deposit are apt to con
tain so much sand in tho spaces between
the shells, that the resulting lime is too
largely contaminated to be of uho. On
the Cowlitz river, in Washington Terri
tory, is another shell limestone deposit;
and in other portions of the region along
the Lower Columbia river and it tribu
taries, there are many more, but uono of
any present importance. Near Hunt
ington, in Baker county, Oregon, there
is a limestono deposit which would be
very promising, were it not for tJ.e ex
pense of nearly four hundred miles of
railway carriage, which would Imj re
quired to transport it to market Much
of the stone is a very compact, hard and
tough variety, with a pink tinge. It
should be durable and valuable for arch
itectural purj)oses.
THE PUGET SOUND OF TQ-DAY.
MY first visit to Puget Sound was
made with the guests of the North
ern Pacific railroad, during the
celebration of its completion, in Septem
ber, 1883. We spent an afternoon at
Taooma, where we saw the product of
the country, and at a banquet heard the
country extolled, and then sailed for Se
attle, whose illuminations shone across
the bay as our steamer rounded Battery
Point and approached the city. There
we met with the same cordial reception,
and on the following day saw huge blocks
of coal and immense slabs of lumber,
representing the staple products of the
country, and listened to a further expo
sition of its resource at a grand barl.
cue and clam bake. In the evening I
joined the editorial party, as it camo to
the sound, and sat down to another mn.
quet, which was designed, not merely to
entertain and honor the representative
of the pre, but to farnish them with
information, which they all desired, con
cerning M the pride of Washington Ter
ritory." By such a visit to theo cities, bow.
ever, under such favorable circumstanc
es, I got only a feeble impression of the
beauty of the sound, or it greatne,
It was only by the excursion of the fol
lowing three days, to different jrt of
the sound, that I came sensibly to real
ize the truth of Admiral Charles Wilke'
statement, that M nothing can sarpftM the
beauty of the -frs awl their safety,"