SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1908.
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Right at the Moutli of the Columbia River
m.rin ofnroi has hav heen discovered in paying: quantities across the Columbia River from Astoria at Onieda,
Washington, has been important enough to a number of well-known reliable partiesjto cause ; the organization of the Pacific
Coast Gas & Oil Co., with a capital stock of $300,000. This company has just placed a number of sharesjof stock on the market
at the low price of $50.00 per share. KbAU ihm-
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THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
What the Company Is
The Pacific Coast Gas & Oil Co. is
composed of reliable business men of
Oregon and Washington whose only
purpose is to develop the property to
the best of its ability and produce a
paying mine 'of oil and gas that all
who have purchased stock may share
in its profits. The officers serve with
out salary and include among them
some of the most reputable citizens
of the State. To make the company
strong on account of its brilliant fu
ture it has secured leases on over
6000 acres of land. It has obtained
the highest expert authority on the
geological formation of the land,
employed tLe strongest expert work
men to operate the drilling apparatus
and given such other evidence of goefci
faith to warrant any man making an
investment with them.
Alex Sweek, president, Portland.
Clayton S. Barber, sec and treas.
R. A. Wade, vice-president
Directors John Nelson, Oneida,
Wash.; Geo. L. Hutchins, Portland;
Wm. Anderson, Deep'Kiver, Wash.
The plant is now
in constant opera
tion. The drilling
is being done under
the supervision of
two expert oil well
operators. You can
see them at work
any day of the
week at Oneida
right opposite Astoria.
The picture opposite is
a view of the derrick in
actual operation.
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If you have any
doubt as to the sta
bility of the com
pany, or in the
manner in which
it'is operating, be
fore you make any
investment visit
the property any
day and satisfy
yourself. '.Oil and
gas will be found
in paying quanti
ties. After the
"strike" it will be
too late to buy
stock. Do it NOW.
StocK for Sale
For Development Pa o?e
The per value of the stock it $100
per share, but ii now offered at one
half ($50) and it it worth It The '
company hat already sold limited
amount of stock, equipped the prop
erty with the beat working machinery
in the world and it has plant for a ,
great future. The money tecured
from the sale of ttock wilt be to push
the work. Every dolar will be used
to prepare for the best interest of the
company. At the drill goet down the
ttock will surely rise. The price it it
now offered at will only be thort
time. A good rule it to let oppor
tunity in when it knocki at the door.
Tor an investment there it nothing
more tangible, brighter or more turer
dvidend paying than this ttock, par
ticularly at $50 per thare. Don't wait
until it goet to par, but buy now. It
is really a chance that comet seldom.
Further particulari at the addrettet
given below.
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THE TIMBER SUPPLY
And What Will Happen When It
Gives Out
FIND WOOD SUBSTITUTES
guilders Are. Already Experimenting
" to Find Something to Take the
Place of Wood, Especially Around
the Large Cities.
What are houses going to be made
of when there is no more timber?
That is a question which, in these
days of disappearing forests, cannot
be dismissed as "academic." There is
no better proof of the reality of the
"destruction of the forests," of which
so much has been heard recently,
than the outlay necessary for even a
simple frame dwelling. In the short
period of ten years the cost of a home
has increased from 30 to 60 per cent.,
according to whether it is near a
source of lumber supply or in a thick
ly settled section far away from the
woods.
Government experts have covered
the country with their investigations,
and they report that the time is not
far off when the country's timber will
be gone. This means that other
things must be found to take the
place of wood. The United States
Government has established labora
tories at various centres, for the
purpose of testing all sorts of
structural materials. The results of
these tests are published from time
to time, and in this way engineers,
architects and contractors are inform
ed as to the capabilities of the mater
ials. Only within the last year or two
has general interest in the diminish
ing timber supply been aroused, The
recent Conference of Governors,
called by President Roosevelt, was
due chiefly to the report of the offi-
j-'uicaici, viuuiu iiuuivi, w tut.
President. To the condition which
made the Conference necessary may
be traced, also, the invention of novel
htiildimr materials. One example of
this is Thomas A. Edison's unique'
idea of making huge moulds and
pouring concrete idto them "houses
made while you wait;" but nobody
has yet been bold enough to put thjjJ
idea into practice. Then there .are
other forms of concrete and cement
which have been proposed, all more
or less in the experimental stage at
present.
Thus there is a constant attempt to
employ for building the only sub
stance of which the supply is unlimit
ed, the soil of the earth itself. Espec
ially is this so in and near the big
cities, where the scarcity of timber
and the consequent high prices are
felt most seriously. For here the
difference in price between a frame
house and a house of more solid
material is so small as to be unim
portant, Illustrative of the general tendency
to find substitute for wood ' is the
suggestion of Mr. Herbert M. Wilson
of the United States Geological Sur
vey, that scientific investigations into
the properties of clay be' undertaken.
The American Ceramic Society made
a start in this direction, by appoint
ing a special committee to report
upon a plan "for systematizing the
study of clay products."
Individual builders, meanwhile,
have gone ahead and demonstrated
the practicability of their ideas. Last
year the Building Department of
New York Citv. for the first time in
its history, received plans for a terra;
cotta house. The plans were passed
upon favorably; and the house, which
belongs to a professor in New York
University, has just been completed.
In the suburbs around New York
there have been put up, recently,
terra cotta . dwellings. The principal
element in them is the hollow tile
block the same kind of block that
is used for fireproofing the "sky-1
scrapers" on Manhattan Island. It is j
manufactured from New Jersey clay,
and in the prooess of manufacture is;
subjected to a heat of 2,200 degrees, j
In 'the walls and partitions the
blocks are set end on end, so that
the hollow spaces form continuous
perpendicular pipes. These hollow
spaces make the walls non-conductors
of heat, and thus tend to keep
the house warm in winter and Cool in
summer. In the floors the blocks are
laid between beams of steel or rein
forced concrete. With both walls and
floors made of terra cotta, each room
is enclosed with fireproof material,
and fire could not easily spread from
one room to another.
The second man who submitted to
the New York Building Department
plans for a terra cotta house was
Amos L. Schaeffer, engineer of the
Public Service Commission. Instead
of letting the job to a contractor Mr.
Schaeffer employed laborers and him
self oversaw the construction of the
walls and floor. By this he saved
morfey, the frame costing him only
$2500. Once the frame of hollow block
is built, the cost of a house depends
mostly upon the "frills" the interior,
finish, trimmings, decoration, etc.
The exterior surface of a house of
this type is covered with a stucco
of whatever color the owner chooses.
When the work is all done there is
no way of telling what is under the
stucco, whether wood or brick or tiie.
The original cost of a terra cotta
house is perhaps 10 per cent, greater
than that of a frame building .of
similar size. The ultimate saving is
effected through smaller maintenance
charges and insurance premiums.
Some architects have made a spec
ialty of fireproof dwelling houses,
planning homes that cost anywhere
from $5,000 to $40,000. Only last year
two handsome terra cotta residences
were built at Englewood and Mount
Kisco, suburbs of New York, at a
cost of about $40,000 each. At almost
the same time a terra cotta "cottage"
with nine rooms, was put up at
Briarcliff, another stiburb, for $6,500,
Since the introduction of automo
biles the safe storage of large quanti
ties of gasolene has become a prob
lem for the builder. Wood is of no
value here. In the big cities the law
requires the building where gasolene
is kept . to have none but fireproof
materials 'in them. Accordingly,
many of them are being made of
clay products throughout. An in
stance is the tile garage built recently
by Mr. Dave Hennen Morris, former
President of the Automobile Associa
tion of America. Other owners of
private and public garages have fol
lowed his example.
Perhaps the most significant single
effort toward the substitution of
other materials for wood is the pro
posal to extend the fire limits of New
York to include the whole greater
City. If the Aldermen pass such an
ordinance, it will mean that no more
frame houses of any kind may be
built in the metropolis. Ten years
ago this plan would have had .no
chance of success; now it has a good
chance, simply because the high
price of lumber has made the cost of
a fireproof house relatively small, and
has heretofore removed or weakened
the desire of builders to use wood.
A DYSPEPTIC ODE
Let poets rave, as poets will,
About the heart's control,
And in their lofty lyrics still
Us vital worth cxtrol;
I, who' must walk in humble ways
And modest muses woo,
I write this simple song to praise
The liver good and true.
Pray tell me what are hearts to men
What's anything, alack!
To us poor bilious creatures when
The liver's out of whack?
While sentiment, I grant it ,is
Quite proper in its place,
Yet when we get right down to "biz,"
The liver sets the pace.
So let's not to the dreamy bards'
Soft caroling succumb, .
For he who clearest truth regards
Will keep his liver plumb;
He knows full well a heart may bless
A moral, in a way,
But oh! it's quite "N. G" unless .
His liver's all "O. K."
And here and now I make my plaint
To all the cooks: Beware
On what you feed us, for a saint
On bile-distressing fare
Must soon become a demon! Yes,
You guide us, day by day,
For piousness and biliousness
Go different paths, they say.
Success Magazine.
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