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THE LUMBERMAN.
Centuries these woodlands Hood
Looking down on ages pul, '
Strong through evil limes and good
llow'd to nun at last.
War upon these ancient glades
Shaken to each soaring crown,
Axemen swing your glancing blades,
Hew the woodlands down!
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Lay the ancient woodlands lowl
Racks are bended,
Timbers rended,
Shrouded in the deathly snow
Voices calling, ,
Giants falling
Lay the woodlands low!
Bended low each haughty crown,
Prone amid the deathly snow,
Hew the ancient woodlands down
Where the wheat shall grow.
Where nun at the labor sings,
There shall mighty cities rise,
Where the axe In triumph rings,
Nations strong and wise.
Lay the ancient woodlands few I
Mighty ships shall ride the main,
And, whence tides of commerce flow,
Bring wealth home again.
Lands for labor, homes for rest,
Commerce for men's dally need,
Harvests of the tlmber'd west,
Honest toil the urd.
H, K. A. Poc K.
Visitor (entering neighbor1! kkchen)-Dear Mrs. Brown, I just ran
over to tell you how much I enjoyed your beautiful article on Prevention of
Cruelly to Animals ! " But what in the world are you doing ?
M us. Brown (triumphantly) Boiling crabs alive to make salad.
PACIFIC COAST SCENES.
, On the first page of this paper is a picture of a scene familiar to travelers
in the mountainous western country a wood flume. These flumes perform
an important office in transporting materials from high altitudes in rough land
where road building is difficult and the incline too great to admit of teaming
to advantage. A cheap flume is made and water from some mountain stream
turned into it and the wood is carried down at a rapid rale. Lumber is often
" flumed " out from saw mills in the mountains, it being easier to establish the
mills in the heart of the standing timber and " flume " the product out to mar
ket than to get the logs out before they are converted into lumber. Along
the Columbia river there are numerous flumes and chutes the latter being
used merely to slide wood, lumber or grain from the top of high banks down
to boat landings, and they, of course, carry no water.
On page 285 is given a view off the western coast of Oregon a vessel
crossing out over the Coos bay bar. Coos bay is an inlet from the Pacific, a
number of miles north of Cape Blanco, and, like harbors in general, its mouth
is protected by a bar which prevents heavy seas from entering the bay. Con
siderable commerce with the Coos bay country is carried over the bar, but
deep draught vessels can not safely enter. Congress has made an appropria
tion for improving the entrance to this bay and it will soon be numbered
among the valuable harbors of the Pacific. The Coos bay country is rich in
timber, mineral and fanning resources and it is in the general interest to have
the harbor improved and its natural wealth developed.
The same page bears a view on the Columbia river looking westward
down the stream from the dalles. The city of The Dalles may just be dis
cerned in the distance and Mount Hood rears its lofty ice fields in full view.
The rocky channel of the river is most apparent in the fall when the water is
lowest The solid walls confining the mighty stream stand nigged and stub
born and the water boils and plunges and foams in getting between them and
around the basaltic columns that obstruct the channel One never grows
weary of the sight.
A mining town in holiday array is shown on page 186. There are hun
dreds of these towns scattered through the western mountains, all of them
presenting the same general characteristics, This particular picture is from a
photograph of Quartiburg, a mining camp high up in the mountains in Boise
county, Idaho,
The other picture on page 386 is of immigrants from Texas as they ar
rived at Baker City, Oregoa They crossed the plains with this novel outfit,
taking their own time and getting much of their living on the way. A yoke
of steers, a cow and a donkey, and an old horse constituted the team to draw
the prairie schooner across the plains and over the mountains in the good old
fashioned style and the family lived upon the milk of the cow, such game as
could be shot by the way and a limited store of staples arranged for before
starting on the long journey. The overland immigrant is a common sight in
the west, though few such teams as are shown in this pictuu are seen.
Cold valley, Oregon, is shown on page j88. It is a familiar scene in
eastern Oregon. On the next page is a view from Shagg rocks on the Oregon
coast about ten miles below Yaquina bay. The Seal Rocks summer resort is
there, and Shagg rocks is the name given to several tall and rugged projections
that afford nesting places for the awkward sea bird known as the shagg.
The Great Western Canal company has been organiied at Idaho Falls,
Bingham county, Idaho, by Chicago and Denver capitalists. It Is the pur
pose of this company to take water from the Snake river about ten miles
above Idaho Falls, in 1 canal forty miles long. The canal will be forty feet
wide and will carry enough water to irrigate the entire west side. Work will
be begun on the enterprise immediately.
Just now an immense quantity of potatoes are being shipped from Sno
homish to the larger cities on the sound. Last year's crop was very Urge,
and it is only lateJy that the farmers have been able to get sacks in order to
ship them.
The city of Tacoma has issued bonds to the amount of $550,000 which
have been sold at par, all to one purchaser. Of this amount $j 50,000 will be
applied to paying the city indebtedness and Jioo.ooo for the new city hall
SHI (a soulful poet-Darling, let u. get a divorc Two women have been .poined on the firs, board of "J J
HI (ilte UtolHTta deurwha. for? Wyoming state university a. Laramie, and on. of them ha. been elected by
SHE (dreamilJO-Because, then, 1 could write you such WWpaenw. the board as its secretary.