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Monday, July 17, 1018 ASHLAKD PAGE SIX Ashland's Great Granite Asset l Continue from Page One) Mr. Blair is a granite man of vMe experience, having come from the quarries at Carre, Vt.. and having worked in granite as far west as Pu get Sound, north into British Colum bia and across the southern part of the United States from California to Virginia and South Carolina. Dur ing tae morning he drew many inter esting comparlsi. . :, particularly be tween the Ashland rock r.nd that from Barre, long known as granite of fine quality. Technically speaking, m"st trnntte lias the "rift," the '"grain" and the "head grain," corresponding respec tively to the "flat grain," the "edge grain" and the end or cross grain in timber. One exceptional feature of this lower Ashland ledge is in the fact that the stone splits with the "rift" in any direction, leaving the usual smooth surface. A drill of new design is used having a hole through it from end to end, through which the dust at the point of the drill is blown away. The Barre granite is of three shades, dark, light and medium. These three shades are also found in the Ashland deposits, and Mr. Blair is satisfied that this stone is equal or superior to the Barre granite in every particular. It will polish beau tifully and show up letters in fine shape two requisites for a superior monument stone. The granite of the lower ledge is remarkably uniform, free from black "knots," "white horses" and other blemishes. Blocks of fifty tons without a flaw could be taken out with adequate facilities for handling such large ones, which, how ever, are seldom needed. The two tipper ledges, while largely free from blemishes, usually will not yield such large blocks of equal perfection. The granite of the second ledge polishes dark and shows carvings white, mak ing in effect a 'beautiful contrast. From Barre, Vt., are sent annually to Oregon about fifty carloads of granite of an estimated value of $100,000. The stone costs $1.35 per cubic foot in the rough there. The freight is $1 per hundred pounds, and, while the net weight per cubic foot of finished dimensions is but 175 pounds, the stones necessarily are cut large to allow for dressing. bo that the total cost of Barre granite In the rough laid down in Oregon amounts to $3.85 per net cubic foot. Finished, the cost runs as high as from $S to $9 per cubic foot. At Barre there are ninety-two quarries, employing in all depart ments of the work about 12.000 men. Mr. Blair is confident that on his property there Is as much fine gran ite as in the Barre quarries, though of course Oregon does not have the trade territory as densely populated or as well developed as that tributary to the eastern city. Many Barre quarries show "white horses" in the surface rock, but these disappear as deeper levels are reached, so the 6ame may be true of the two upper Ashland ledges, which even now fur nish many large, clear stones, while the lower ledge is clear from the start. '.Mr. Blair submitted samples of his granite to Edwards and Lazell, chem ical and efficiency engineers of Port land, for test. Samples were in two forms, solid and pulverized. The fol lowing extract is from this firm in reply: "Laboratory No. 8.185. This ( granite contains no iron in the form of sulphide and no sulphur. There is further very little iron soluble in acids. 'From the above investigations we consider the granite to be free from any material which will cause it to rust or stain. ' A recent govern ment reports approves the Ashland granite for all government work The company is now engaged In getting out steps for the new Port land auditorium. These blocks are three by four by eight feet and weigh nearly eight and one-half tons each. When one rough block was being lowered to the cutting shed the hand ler was asked its weight. He re plied, "About ten tons." The fore man measured the stone and comput ed the actual weight at 20,475 pounds as evidence that the quarry man knew his business even to guess ing weights. A monument valued at S00 is being made for the grave of a well-known Portland business man recently deceased. The Blair Granite Company is equipped with surfacing and polish ing machines driven by electricity for turning out completely finished work as well as the rough product. Solid blocks of twelve tons weight without the slightest imperfection are tiow being taken out. The dirt hill cover ing the ledge is valuable in place of staging, which otherwise would have to be built for handling the stone. All waste dirt is easily and quickly dumped into the canyon below. The company owns 120 acres of quarry land, and, cornering with this tract, a good little forty-acre ranch which will be used eventually for cutting sheds and employes' homes. A stream supplying an abundance of water runs down across the land through the canyon below the present works. For present uses the water is piped from a point 1,100 feet upstream from the quarry. A buukhouse twenty-four by thirty feet and cook house twenty by forty feet now fur nish temporary quarters for the six employes. Nature in conjunction with a wise utilization of her gifts has provided a splendid site and ideal conditions for a granite quarry, and Mr. Blair is much pleased with the outlook. The present orders on which he Is now working and has secured in so short a time are evidence of his business sagacity and the true merit of the stone. Mr. Blair says he has every thing satisfactorily figured out ex cept the distressing problem as to how the tadpoles got into a barrel of water standing under a majestic Ore gon fir at the meeting place of the road and an old irrigating aitcn. ine , spot is enchanting and the barrel is j painted a light blue, neither of which circumstances is likely to have influ enced the tadpoles in their choice of a home. No one in the party was able to solve the knotty problem, so, not having their guilt clearly estab lished, the little frollckers were left to the Joy of their brief lives. The location of Mr. Blair's prop erty is about one mile below the Chrlstensen sawmill on Nell creek and is near where S. Penniston and sons did some prospecting ten or twelve years ago, but the rock is now being taken out at a lower level to much better advantage. Mr. Blair s men are all experienced. The quarry UUPH, 1.1. D. JU11113UU, niiu 49 c mvj cutter and polisher, and Richard 1. " Tl TaIihaah tt' 1 n In n Ian Q ' Fagan, a cutter, are from the Barre quarries. Robert Gauly and Frank Olson, both cutters, are from Wiscon sin. John Blair ls'also a cutter and Lester Weiss is truck driver and en gineer. Walter M. Blair, the owner, Is chief of all and a handy man at anything. ASH LAND'S CELEBItATIOX, JULY 4, 5, 6, 1916. (By Frank H. Hull, Movie Man.) They let the cowboys have their way. Let us hope the spirit is here to stay, For with the roundup and the park, All classes may come and have their lark. ' Young and old from every Oregon dell, And from California, too, as well, Will meet each year in Ashland, With lithia as its foremost brand. The F6urth is over, the cowboys gone, Asiiland may rest, for quiet is on. Tracy Layne, the cowboy poet, Said old man Adams got his goat. Smiley Corbett with his million-dol lar smile Was there with fancy roping for quite a while. Vernon walked away with the bull- dogging event, But Cable took the roping and away he went. Bob Hall's drunken ride made a hit, Smiley Corbett brought a yell when he .lit; Barrel Cannon won the saddle by his ride, For he stayed on. top when he got astride. Big black George, the Fletcher boy, Rode everything as though it were a toy. Then right here he would expand And ride in front of the big grand stand. When "Skeeter Bill," with too much booze, Tried to ride the bull he couldn't con fuse, He stuck two jumps, then fell on his face, And assisted by friends he left, the place. Tracy wrote the poems while he was here, But since he has beckoned to the farewell cheer, I'll fill the vacancy where nothln's needed, Till by another guy I am exceeded. The Southern Pacific Company will erect a $10,000 station building at North Bend. Malheur county is building crushed rock roads at $750 per mile. CAT LIN an ARROW COLLAR THIN. LIGHT Vt T hi AkCHLD AND fclGllTLV IS: each f.rVu rt.rrrr. rr tonr a ro . ,-.. vakf n fT C ATLIN 3 Zueblin Gives Good Advice Charles Zueblin, the Boston civic lecturer, began his lecture last Tues day afternoon by saying that Ashland had the most beautiful Chautauqua grounds and the worst auditorium of any city in which he had addressed an audience. The1 subject of his talk was "The New Civic Spirit." The ad dress was one of the best ever heard on that or similar topics. He did not talk long, but he talked so fast.and said bo much in a few words that when he stopped he had said a great deal. He started in with the church, the school and charity. He said the American church' was no better than the European church. People do not talk so much any more about the "little red school house on the hill." The "three R's" are a thing pf the past. Men learn to do things to make a living. Charity, a few years ago, was an institution used wholly for Bhow A man gavej not just for tho gake of the giving, but so that someone would see him give. Now men give as if on a levelwlth the person to whom they are giving man to man. He skipped around some in order to cover his ground, but all his talk related directly to his subject. He said that the streets showed the kind of people -that in habited the town. That was one of the things he liked about Ashland. He liked the paved streets and park rows. He said that there can be no competition in public utility there must be monopoly. Electricity can not ,)e BUppllea by one company, the w tep hv another. etc. There must ,)e one ,))g muncpal company to sup- ply all these things. lie next stated that he noticed that the streets of Ashland were swept and wanted to know what was done with the sweep ings. All street sweepings, garbage and sewage are worth money, he said, and money should be made with them. He again said he- liked our park rows and trees. These should be taken care of by a public author ity in order to be sure of good and uniform care. Especially the trees should be set out and cared for by one person. "Some people," he said, "do not know the difference between a tree and a telephone pole." You never can tell what such people will do to a tree. Therefore, have one man take care of the trees and have them-all alike. He has met few flies in this community. This sounds promising to us. We should endeavor to keep it so that strangers shall for ever after be "met by only a few flies." He said that in Boston aTl I children were required to take part in I athletics. No child should be allowed to escape from school until he can earn a living with his own hands, j Most people become criminals behind member of the committee must go the bars. These were some of hls,flie thanks of the city and to the sayings. Then came one of the big- gest things every city must have a big, progressive, municipal plan. He said Ashland had started well along that line with the exception that the public library Bhould have been built on the Plaza where the city hall is. When we get our postoffice it should be built there also. The idea is to make the city center around one place. The park could not have been put in a better location. It suits Ashland's municipal plan very well. Ashland has a chance to be come one of the most beautiful of cities if it will but keep the good work going. But there is danger or APE YOU INSURED Yes, that Is a very burning ques tion sometimes! If you are not fully protected by insurance against fire, NOW is the time to attend to Ji. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. How about that home, merchandise, automobile, etc.! Did you ever stop to think just how little it will cost you to carry your Insurance compared to the ben efits which you receive? A few dol lars invested today may save you a thousand tonight. Billings Agency Real Estate and Real Insnraoce 41 East Main Phone 211 sitting down when something has been accomplished and admiring what has been done and not going any farther ahead. Unqualified Praise From Everywhere The celebration which is now a memory, and a most pleasant one, has brought from every direction showers of praise upon Ashland. Added to the parks Vhich will enter tain thousands without congestion, were tire mineral waters! the round up, the parades, the various ceremo nies, the coutlnual band concerts by four of he best bands which the cities of the valley have ever had good reason to be proud of, the mag nificently staged roundup, the dozens of minor events, the ball games, the dances, the swimming pools, the whole-hearted manner in which the people responded in offering accom modations and co-operation, was the fact that no exorbitant charges were made and everybody was given such excellent satisfaction that they could not but leave singing the praises' of the hospitality of the lithia city. To quote all the comments which have appeared in the newspapers of our neighboring cities would require col umns. Suffice it to say that not a single Instance of criticism appeared, and let the following from the Klam ath Falls Herald stand as a fair sam ple of the commendation which has been given the city: "Klamath Falls people returning from attending the Ashland celebra tion are loud in their praises of the hospitality of the lithia city and the splendid celebration held. The pa rades, fireworks and other features were by far the best witnessed any place in Oregon outside of Portland. "The civic improvements brought about in recent months in Ashland were the cause of much congratula tion for the town. The entire town entered into the spirit of the big af fair." Credit for the celebration rests in the main with the directive force which was centered in the general committee which was made up of the following: H. O. Frohbach, chair man; A. H. Pracht, H. G. Enders Jr., M. E. Briggs, Amos Ninlnger, Frank Jordan, C. B. Wolf, C. Adams, George Owen, Harry Hosier, D. D. Norrls, O. T. Bergner. To H. O. Frohbach must go the major credit. All of his time for weeks was devoted to the celebration, always unruffled despite the many obstacles which of course appeared, planning, directing and working, his ability was an Immense factor in the systematic manner in which the cele bration was carried out and the im- mense success scored. To every other many who served faithfully and well on the sub-committees, throwing themselves with all their soul into the work of making the visitors wel come and comfortable. But then our celebration was a success only be cause everybody worked and the real ization of success is sufficient re ward. Girl Whistler At Chautauqua The Elite Trio, composed of a read er, a whistler who is, by the way. only fifteen years of age, and a pian ist, were heard by large audiences Thursday afternoon and evening. Their programs are of first class. The young whistler is an artist She was encored time after time. Her closing number was the old "Mocking Bird." In it after whistling through the song she imitated the call of every kind of bird from a meadow lark to a screech owl. She has a re markably clear and beautiful whistle. When in rendering a selection she made all sorts of little tryis and birdlike quavers which quite stole the heart of the audience. During the evening's performance the girl and the pianist whistled a duet. This was something new and was very pleasing. The reader rendered a number of good selections, among them one from London's "The Call of the 'Wild." She did not merely say the words, but one could almost feei -with the watchers as the dog pulled the heavily laden sledge past the finish and won the money for his beloved master. The Welnhard Brewing Company at Portland Is putting out 3,000 bar rels of non-alcoholic beverage, em ploying 75 persons. Salem factories are putting in larg er equipment for the manufacture of loganberry and fruit Juices. -These beverages Increase in popularity. Hermiston dairymen are building three new silos. Everywhere desired and everywhere admired are the Wirlhraor $l00 Waists The new models on sale tomorrow When there's such an insistent and overwhelming demaTTd throughout the country for any particular article, It symbols just one thing: namely, that the article is superior to any oth ers obtainable at the same price. That's the case with the Wlrthmor Waist the same eagerness which greets their sale ru?re being manifested in hundreds of other cities throughout , the various states. The new models for tomorrow's selling are quite as pretty as any we have ever seen, and we know they'll meet with a ready sale. Wirthmor Waists can be sold in jusf one good store in every city. They are sold here exclusively Beer Petition Has The Most Sigiiersj Eight petitions for the placing of. statewide constitutional amendments on (he "November ballot had been ! iled with the secretary of state when 1 the period for filing these petitions , closed. Three petitions which are known, to be In circulation did not appear, apparently being given up. The amendment "to abolish dis- crimination against home manufac-! ture of light beer" was brought in j with 42,046 signatures, and- the amendment initiated by the Oregon j state prohibition committee "to pro- j hlbit the importation of liquor for beverage purposes" was filed with 30,470 signatures. The petition validating the location of the Ashland normal, other state schools and providing for the loca tion of a normal school at Pendleton was filed. The petition "to repeal and abolish the Sunday closing law" was filed with a large number of signers. A petition providing for the "peo ple's land and loan law" and several county petitions were filed. The rural credits petition, in which there had been keen interest mani fested over the state, was filed with about 26,500 signatures. This amendment is Initiated and favored by the Oregon Referendum League, a federation of the Oregon State Once there were giants in the land, men who could scrap t6 beat the band. In modern times the cheapest skates are known as champeen heavyweights, but long ago, when Jim was young, men didn't fight with jaw or lung, but used their fists, and used them well brave days of Jackson and John L.I They slugged away, while they could stand, when there were giants in the land. And Corbett won his laurels then, among those mighty fighting men. He was the champion when that meant something more than getting fat, and standing, in a graceful pose, to figure in the movie shows. He's an authority on sport, and his decrees the wise ones court. He's an authority on smok" es, and as his trusty pipe he stokes, he often says, "Tuxedo's Best; it has the edge on all the rest" VlIUHMOR ti maims 1 I The &4< Bargain Store Grange, Farmers' Educational and Co-operative union and the Oregon State Federation of Labor. The statewide tax limitation amendment petition came in with about 35,000 signatures. It is fos tered by the State Taxpayers' League. The missing petitions were one for "ne day of rest in seven," fostered by the Weekly Rest Day League; one to protect salmon in the Columbia river and its tributaries, and one re lating to the admission of health practitioners to do business in the state. Favor Pendleton Normal Measure County school superintendents of the state gathered at Salem to grade examination papers, endorsed unani mously the proposed constitutional amendment to establish a normal school at Pendleton and to validate the location of the normal at Ashland and other stat$ schools. The resolu tion follows: "Resolved, that it Is the sense of the county school superintendents of the state of Oregon, in convention as sembled, that the best Interests of the schools of the state demand increased facilities for the training of the teach- ers, and that we, therefore, endorse the initiative measure to establish a normal school at Pendleton." JAS. J. CORBETT F wmu Prist fighUr uni Aeltr. ayti "My tnlhusiam for (Ac r. France enj mildneu ef Taxed hoi no limit. TuxeJo It without doubt the moif talhfacioty pip fooacco."