Ashland tidings., August 18, 1913, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

PAGE SIX
ASHLAND TIDINGS'
Monday, August 18, 101$
THE WORK
OF BUREAU
OOMMlSSIOXEIt LAWHIE TELLS
WHAT IS BEING DONE.
AN EXHAUSTIVE SURYEY IS MADE
Work of Oregon Bureau of Mines
and Geology Explainer Maps and
Bulletins to Be Issued By Next
Summer is Promise.
Editor Tidings: In response to
your request for a brief statement
concerning my visit to Ashland, I
have prepared in haste the following
nummary which I hope will meet
your approval:
The bill creating the Oregon Bu
reau of Mines and Geology went into
effect June 3, 1913. The commis
sion, in advance of this date, had
outlined the work so that no time
would be lost in starting the field
parties to work. By this timely ac
tion the commission was also enabled
to secure the most efficient of tech
nically trained men to enter its ser
vice. Had there been a delay until
after the law went into effect these
men would have been engaged in
other states in similar pursuits and
Oregon would have been forced to
either postpone its field work of re
search until next summer, which de
lay would have been most detrimen
tal to the acquisition of results for
the advancement of the mining in
dustry, or it would have been obliged
to make shift with men of secondary
professional standing.
Preparations were also made in ad
vance by the director of the bureau,
Professor H. M. Parks, and Dr. Alex
ander Wlnchell, one of the foremost
geologists of the United States, in
charge of a party to take the field
of southern Oregon as soon as the
bill went into effect. From my own
experience in Oregon mineral re
sources this field offered some of
the most intricate problems of eco
nomic geology. Dr. Winchell's par
ty, under the guidance of so capable
a man as C. B. Watson, who knows
the locality so thoroughly by years
of personal contact and study, has
made extraordinarily good progress.
Some may feel as though information
concerning the observations should
be forthcoming in the near future for
public guidance. A word of explan
ation will suffice to show that such
conclusions on his part would be pre
mature. With regard to the metal
raining resources, the problem of the
ore Genesis Is the crucial issue. In
order to correlate observations lead
ing to final conclusions in this re
gard, samples of the ores and wall
rocks must be taken, not only from
the active but from the inactive
properties which have been produc
ers at one time. These samples have
to be shipped away and microscopic
thfn sections made of them, which,
when. Dr. Winchell returns to Wis
consin in the fall, after his field work
Is concluded in Oregon, will be exam
ined.v accurately determined, regional
roetamorphlsm and secondary en
richments noted, conclusions drawn
and accompanied by notes and ex
planations and maps published in a
bulletin on this section. This re
search under the stamp of approval
of the Oregon Bureau of Mines and
Geology will be given circulation, and
we may be sure that the high grade
of Dr. Winchell's work will insure
this section of the closest attention
by the mining capital outside of Ore
Kon as well as that in the state,
which will lead to Investments along
rational lines, terminating, where the
management is sound, in success.
Dr. Wlnchell has examined other
than metal deposits. The available
rock formations suitable for road
malarial have been noted, a pre
requisite of unparalleled importance
to the construction of good roads of
a permanent nature. This intoi-ma-tion
will also be published, when
won, comprehensively for the state
and all our six parties are making
like investigations), in bulletin or
pamphlet form, and will be of great
service to the county and highway
engineers.
Another branch of the work this
bnreati is carrying on is the accumu
lation of data preparatory to making
a relief map of Oregon. This work
Is in charge of Dr. Solon Shedd, a
specialist In geology and topography
work. He was the author of such
a map for Washington and his work
ft unexcelled. Without such a relief
may I can see no way for the state
to lay out a comprehensive road sys
tem one that will give adequate
service for the least money expend
ed, either by the county or state
Itegardless of the source from which
tke money for the road development
comes, whatever road is built should
be a unit of a comprehensive system
and permanently constructed.
Of course this relief may is abso
lutely indispensable for the presenta
tion in an intelligent manner of our
mineral resources. I can see where
the agricultural interests will find as
much need for such a map for the
classification and location of their
farm and horticultural products; the
timber interests, for the exploitation
of timber interests; the government,
for the location of their reserved
acres of timber and mineral lands.
This relief map, together with Dr.
Winchell's work in an Oregon Bu
reau of Mines and Geology bulletin,
should be available by next summer.
About a month ago I addressed a
letter to each commercial organiza
tion suggesting the advisability of
their appointing standing mining
committees to co-operate with the
Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology.
Many of these sent the personnel of
their committees. The members of
several having addressed me with
regard to the manner in which they
could best co-operate. Correspond
ence did not seem to be a satisfactory
solution for the answer to these re
quests and consequently I thought
best to make a trip and meet these
gentlemen and discuss the situation
first hand.
The mining committee of Ashland
consists of "Chairman F. W. Moore,
E. E. Phipps and W. H. Gowdy. If
there are any mining development
problems to be presented from this
locality it will fall to this committee
to crystalize a statement to be for
warded to the Oregon Bureau of
Mines and Geology and in this way
save much correspondence prelimi
nary to action. We have already
started a research of Oregon build
ing stone and hope to win the use of
our Oregon stone for the Portland
postoffice, plans for which have to
be submitted by October 6. I have
noticed the water tables and trim
on several of your buildings have
used the Penniston granite, which is
most pleasing and and I am con
vinced most durable. It gives the
building a most substantial appear
ance one of permanence and gran
deur. ,
Many are beginning to realize the
importance of assisting the mining
Industrial development of Oregon as
a most effective means to reduce the
tax burden at present resting on the
people. With this realization of a
fact, we may account for the present
activity along these lines, which we
hope will continue. This year the
gold production of Oregon will be
about $3,000,000, or about four times
what it was last year.
Ashland is very favorably located.
The population increase will be part
ly by choice on account of the un
surpassable climation condition and
party on account of industrial accel
eration In agricultural pursuits and
mining. There are but few who real
ize that the labor percentage of the
cost of producing metal, cement and
other mineral products is far great
er in proportion to the sale value of
the product than in the case of hor
ticulture, one of the most intense
labor branches of agriculture. Take
the manufacture of cement. In Cal
ifornia the sale price, at plant, is
$1.50 per barrel of cement. The
labor is approximately 60 cents, or
40 per cent of sale price. Of this
60 cents, 50 cents goes to the susten
ance of labor employed. A 1,000
barrel per day plant would circulate,
locally, $500 in the purchase of food
stuff. You may win some concep
tion of how much more produce the
farmer can raise and sell at a good
profit with such an industry, operat
ing. This means $150,000 per year.
On a $1.50 per barrel basis at the
California plant this means gross re
ceipts for the company of $450,000.
Portland alone consumed last year
2,000,000 barrels of cement at $2.10
per barrel. A 1,000-barrel operation
will therefore be readily absorbed
and room to produce more locally.
A. H. N. LAWRIE.
WILL REPRESENT MEDFORD.
IJoos and Judge Tou Voile of Med
ford bo Attend Eureka Meet.
Medford, Aug. 15. George E.
Boos will be the official delegate of
the Medford Commercial Club at the
good roads meeting at Eureka, Cal.,
August 2 0, at which delegates from
Washington, Oregon and California
will attend. He is at present gath
ering data so to be able to co-operate
with California delegates as to roads
from California into Jackson county.
It is believed that several other good
road advocates of Medford will also
attend.
Judge Tou Velle will make the trip
in his automobile accompanied by
Governor West and Major Bowlby,
state highway engineer. The two
men will leave the train at Medford
and the party will go to Eureka via
Crescent City.
This meeting is planned to be the
most extensive and important ever
held west of the Rocky mountains.
The governors of California and
Washington will also be present and
give addresses.
The Tidings for artistic printing.
FELINE FAMILY HISTORY.
Her Ar the Facts, Although You May
Not Believe Them.
Why shouldn't a respectable cat sit
n the fence and howl when extracts
from Its family history read like this:
'Throughout the tertiary formations,
from the upper eocene onward, there
ipnears a remarkable famllv nt rata.
with a dentition still more specialized
than that of the fellnae. the true fe
lines, retaining other skeletal features
of a more primitive tVDe of rnts.
These were the machaerodoutfnae,
which survived until the pleistocene.
both in Europe and in America."
The information was found in a
geology student's paper, "The Evolu
tion of the Domesticated Cat" Per
haps you are a little rusty on cat his
tory and you find It difficult to remem
ber. This illuminating bit of informa
tion will rresnen it In your memory:
"The pliocene period was thA nm-iod
Df the carnivora. The felids Included
the macherodonts. machaerodus and
aelur opsis. besides varieties anala
eous to the leopard and lynx. In this
epoch appeared the servals (Fells chrls-
toli). At the time of the Fells chris-
toli there appeared also the European
wild cat tells catus. The earliest
feline in America was Fells hlllinnus.
It appeared in the middle nlinpuno. "
Kansas Industrialist
AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
Building a Railroad Across the Ice and
Against Time.
Along the Copper river valley lies
a standard gauge railroad. 191 miles in
length, the building of which was filled
with romance. Its construction is re
garded ns a distinct feat in world's
engineering. The road crosses the riv
er between two glnciers (Childs and
Miles).
The false work of the bridge was
laid on the ice In winter. Meu were
hired to work night and day. M. J.
Heney, the contractor, the man who
built nnother "Impossible" road across
the mountains from Skagway. and his
chief engineer. E. C. Hawkins, con
ceived the idea of using the river ice
for the bridge scaffolding.
As the spring approached hundreds
of men were kept busy every minute
of the day and night, for if not com
pleted by the time the ice buret all the
work and material would have been
lost
The Ice went out, carrying the false
work with it, less than an hour after
the spike was driven in the connecting
span and the work was completed.
The bridge cost $1,400,000. "Alaska,
an Empire In the Making," by John J.
Underwood.
At Sea In a Coffin. .
It was the French assassin Lupi who
escaped to sea from Cayenne In a cof
fin. He managed to get some nails, tar
and cotton, and one dark night be got
into the coffin shed. He selected a fine,
stanch and seaworthy coffin and fas
tened the lid in order to turn it into a
deck, leaving a cockpit sufficient to en
able hira to crawl in. lie calked all
the joints as well as he could, and
when this work was finished he made
a pair of paddles out of two planks.
Then he brought out his craft with
great precaution. Without much diffi
culty he reached the water's edge. Si
lently and slowly he proceeded in the
hope of reaching either Venezuela or
British Guiana. 150 nautical miles dis
tant. Fortunately or unfortunately for
Lupi, the steamer Abellle, returning
from the Antilles off Paramaribo
picked him up half drowned and al
most in a fainting condition, and a few
hours later he was in irons in his cell.
Lioorice Root.
Very few Reople, says a writer in the
Wide World Magazine, have any idea
where the familiar licorice root comes
from. As a matter of fact, the bulk of
It halls from Syria. Here it Is gathered
and piled Into great stacks, where it re
mains until it is thoroughly dry. It is
then taken to the factory to undergo
certain processes. The finished prod
uct is used for flavoring confectionery
and beer, as well as entering into the
makeup of many brands of tobacco.
Some Idea of the exten of the Indus
try may be gathered when it is stated
that on the average 8,000 tons of dry
licorice root is shipped from Aleppo
annually, while Bagdad yields another
6,000 tons, Antloch 4,000 and Damas
cus 500 tons.
A Close Resemblance.
Frofessor Barry once amused Judge
Ball by an application on behalf of a
man who was a dealer In horses and
sugar sticks. The Incongruity of his
avocation struck the judge, who re
marked. "What a strange combination
of trades!"
"I see a close resemblance between
horses and sugar sticks," said the witty
barrister.
"In what way?" inquired his lord
ship. "The more you lick them the faster
they go," was the reply. Loudon Tit
Bits. Knew Juit What to Do.
She George, dear, here's a scientist
who says the earth is wabbling on its
axis. What do you suppose they can
do about it? George (absently) Open
tip the muffler, reverse the lever, shut
off the power, lubricate the bearings
and tighten the wheel cap. Cleveland
Tlaln Dealer.
His Only Chance.
Teller I see that Hennepeck has de
veloped into a free thinker of late.
Grlmshaw Yes; his wife has been
away from home for a week. Puck.
The world turns aside to let a man
pass who knows whither he is going.
David Starr Jordan.
FRISCO PAPERS CONSOLIDATE.
Call and Chronicle United After
Many Years as Competitors.
San Francisco, Aug. 15. The pur
chase of the Call by the Chronicle,
both newspapers, is announced here
today. The owner of the Chronicle,
M. H. De Young, announced that the
Call will suspend publication August
31 and that the latter's entire me
chanical plant, with office furniture
and fixtures, will be sold, except sev
eral presses which the Chronicle can
use.
The Call is nearly 57 years old
and was owned by John D. Spreckles.
De Young today gave out the follow
ing statement:
"For half a century the Call has
been a contemporary and competitor
of the Chronicle. It was a great
newspaper when my brother Charles
and I founded the Chronicle in 1865.
I am grateful that the steady prog
ress and prosperity of the Chronicle
has been so great that I am able to
join me uau ana unronicie in a
greater Chronicle.
"I pledge my unswerving and un
faltering devotion to the interests of
the Chronicle subscribers in the fu
ture, the same as in the past, and
welcome the Call readers into the
Chronicle family."
To Appraise State Printing Office.
Salem, Ore., Aug. 15. A commit
tee consisting of George Putnam of
Medford, George W. Orton of Port
land and Carey Hayter of Dallas has
today been appointed to appraise the
printing plant used and owned by the
late Willis Sv Duniway, state printer,
with a view to its purchase by the
state. The flat salary law, passed at
the last session of the legislature,
appropriated $20,000 for the pur
chase of a plant. Should the Duni
way plant not be purchased, an ef
fort will be made to lease it until
another plant can be provided. Work
of appraisement will begin Monday.
Scale receipts at Tidings office.
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Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
BubBcribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is $1.50 per year.
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Dairy and Food Commission all dairy
butter sold or exposed for 6ale in this state
must be wrapped in butter paper upon which
is printed the words "Oregon Dairy Butter,
16 (or 32) ounces full weight," with the name
and address of the maker.
To enable patrons of the Tidings to easily
comply with this ruling this office has put in
a supply of the standard sizes of butter paper
and will print it in lots of 100 sheets and up
ward and deliver it by parcels post at the fol
lowing prices:
100 Sheets, 16 or 32 ounces $1.35
250 Sheels, 16 or 32 ounces $1.85,
500 Sheels, 16 or 32 ounces $2.65
Send your orders to us by mail accompan
ied by the price of the paper and it will be
promptly forwarded to you by parcel post,
prepaid.
We use the best butter paper obtainable,
and our workmanship is of the best. Let us
have your order and you will not regret it.
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