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! THE OREGON'4 SUNDAY JOtmNALV PORTLAND, ; SUNDAY MORNINO. SEPTEMBER 1, 1907.
coal beds oil comnz will supply Portland
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ranneie a portion of the vast layers of
:l1,,rn,t9 eol "Mob natura plltd in euo
$ ilnf lajrera In tha talley of tba Cow
Work ! balnf ania-enUf pursued at
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a. aviereni points wnere tna autarop-
pints bava uprooted the ' grass and
shrubbery on tha surface and far back
t-jj In tha uninviting tunnala whoaa at
mosphere la fog gad with tba oily amoka
$f of tniner'a lajnpa, powder, ploka and
V shovels ara busy 14 houra each day
' tearing down tha black walla and con-
atantly bom.; deeper and deeper under
i,' the "overtopping mountain.
Within a few weeka It la expected that
; Portlanders and people In other aectlona
of the northwest will become familiar
with tha product known aa Cowllta ooaJ,
C and' not a great dlatanoe In tha future
It la more than likely that passengers
- on the Northern Paoiflo will not have to
y be told that Oatrander, Waahlngton,
where coal bunkera are In contempla
r tlon, 1 the shipping center of an lm
b menae region interlined with valuable
"n veins of fuel.
i Orttlameut at Tunnela Months.
CBtrander Ilea only a half dozen mllea
r ao from the mouth of the Cowllti.
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f la. the hills where development la being
f carried forward .as rapidly aa men and
maohinery ' can : do the work, are the
T commercial atrataa which have already
i built healthy settlement about the
rnauths of the various tunnels and which
. i. later -.111- add buildinars. nonulatlon and
a thriving industry to the station on the
.i banks of thetriver.
J Development of the coal region back
i of Oatrander haa not been carried for
ts ward to such an extent aa to determine
the .exact resourcea of this Immense I
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i stretch of country. Near tha base of
'. the mountain whloh la being perforated
with ominoua looking holea there is
' a long tunnel, both sides of which are
4 lined with coal veins. To the left of
this a matter of 600 feet and at an ele
- vatlon above of half that distance an
! other tunnel has been driven.
; Both sides of this, too, are walla of
. Jet black, and still farther to the left
, of this tunnel, on the same level, still
v a third tunnel la lined with tha same
'5 lnkj- formation which spells dollars and
j centa to the owners.
Extent of Beda Vnkaowxt.
,'' These tunnels break 'through tha va
; rious stratas of fuel like a hole left
" by a straw thrust Into a layer cake,
, but regarding the Immense quantities
; which nature has stored above and ba
' low to the right and left only tha orud-
est kind jf a guess can be made.
1 Nearly a mile away on the farther side
' of the-immense mound of earth, and at a
. depth fully 27S feet below tha upper
v tunnel, a fourth tunnet haa been driven
r j at the base of the mountain. Here the
same formations are encountered, here
the same lignite layers as are found in
' each of the others.
This lower tunnel is the longest. Its
.walls are eight-foot veins Of coal, run
ring parallel to those cut during tha
: progress of the tunnels at tha other
-. levels. Engineers state that the dip
, of the veins here, analogous to those
t on the west slope, and holding relatively
v the same positions, demonstrate be
'; yond a doubt that this whole mountain
Is built -upon a foundation of coal velna,
. interspersed with sandstone atrataa
1 which, owing to their softness, makes
. ' the mining of the fuel a comparatively
' simple task.
isut way down in the depths of that
huge abutment of earth, scattered over
crea ana acres or ground, sinking per-
t i-ura me oeaiea regions on wm gloom
itseiT, no one knows and no one can tell
until tunnels and shafts and powder
and power have extracted it, how many
millions of tons of coal He burled.
Oreat Quantities la Bight.
i Those who are developing the field,
however, are satisfied to work away
persistently and hopefully on the ira
. mense quantities already In slrht. Ex-
f posures of the veins already out furnlah
i an Inexhaustible field of labor and the
jiwork of yeara to oome la already
'; mapped out.
- The task of bringing tha coal from
the tunnels' mouths 10 tha Cowllta river
where it is planned to load it on barges
. then tow it into Portland, necessitates
j. the building of both a tramway and
; bunkers, the latter to ba constructed on
: the river's banks.
Right of way from the base of tna
mountain to the Cowllta haa already
been cleared, and mora than half of
the three-quarter mile stretch of rails
, on which the coal cars will run la com
, pleted. There yet remains, In addition,
, the ballasting of the track.
An advantage always aought in mln
; ing operatlona anywhere, and which la
present on the Cowllta properties, la the
, accessible elevations above tha point of
Quarter, for, Day, and Nignt Starts. Are Being Rapidly Erected..
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'Temporary Banker Which Houses First Products of Upper Tunnels.
outlet for the mining product a sim
ple matter, not generally recognised,
but which saves the enormous expense
of lifting the fuel before It is finally
loaded Into the tram cara. Gravity
her will be a great saving feature: tha
ooal will be handled but onca after leav
ing tha tunnels and before being loaded
oat bargasv thus saving a big Item. In
tha eoat of production.
Tunnela have bean sunk at aaay
stages up tha aide of tha mountain.
From tha lower one the ooal can ba
loaded directly Into the cara which
stand on tha track leading down to tha
bunkera on the river, and from tha
upper tunnela high up on the aide of
the peak the coal la dumped from the
cara Into bunkera which feed down tha
I pranlpltaua alnpa tn other, cara.jBn.JUia
miniature transportation line.
Not many minutes will be wasted in
handling the fuel after it leaves the
tunnela A down-hill hanl to the Cow
llta necessitates but little transportation
power being brought into play; a quick
run without stops can be made, the coal
dumped Into the bunkers overhanging
tha river, and tha empty care taken back
for more tonnage, all in tha twinkling
of an eye.
Bunkers on tha Kirex Saak.
Bo kindly haa nature parceled out har
favors in forming tha valley of the
Cowllta that the Consumere' Coal com
pany, which Is developing- tha property,
has made plans for the erection of
bunkers on the bank of the river which
will hold but (00 tons. Larger bunkers
ara unnecessary owing to tha ' lay of
tha country and tha speed with whloh
thsaa Storage places can ba filled from
a gravity track which will require noth
ing mere than brakes to prevent the
heavily loaded cars from running at too
great a speed to thalr destination.
Along the slopes of the mountain,
near the upper tunnels where a shelf of
level ground was conveniently placed in
the making, the developing company haa
erected ita stores and houses, black
smith ahopa and other quartera neces
sary to carry on tha work which la be
ing hastened by a force of 70 men.
Coal taken from the tunnala la used in
the forges and meals are cooked on
tnrea whose surface la made red-hot
bv tha nroduot which la soon to find
market In Portland and elsewhere.
cowlits ooal. however, is not new.
More than 30 years aao tha veina now
being worked were discovered and noma
extensive development waa dona. Tha
am oronertlea now in the hands of the
Consumers' Coal company were leased
by the Anchor coal company or tveatiie
and some of tha same tunnels from
which grimy miners emerge today were
constructed nearly two decadea ago.
atarket Awaits Development. ,
But tha market for the nroduct at
that time waa not aa Inviting as it la
at present, uorawooa in Fortiana, wnicti
waa then a town of only $0,000, aold
for $1.76 a cord. Fuel waa a drug on
the market, coal waa un bought, and the
market for lignite was dead.
Aa a result of this condition tna An
chor company, unable to market lta
produot at a price which would net a
profit, lapsed on some of Its leases, and,
resisting; an attempt to annul the con
tracts which it had signed, brought the
ooal properties into litigation from
which they emerged only a short time
During tne interim tne maraet grew,
fuel once valueless became worth five
tlmea the price it commanded 20 yeara
ago, and with the introduction or mod
ern methods of mining, Cowlits coal can
be taken from the tunnels In the Wash
ington valley and placed on the market
at a cost not greatly exceeding $1 per
ton.
Of the 841 acres of around through
out which coal cropplngs have been
found and which are owned and con
trolled by the company now operating
in the Cowlitz field, only the fractional
part of one small portion of It has been
toucnea. Years or iaDor ana proauction
will not greatly affect tha enormous
supply which lies beneath the surface,
and as depth In the tunnels is obtained
tbe product coming from the more dis
tant points where neither water nor air
haa had a blHhlng influence on the
quality of the fuel, the grade increases
the texture and worth.
Quality Shows by Analysis.
Surface crooDlnaa taken from the val
ley of the Cowlits show some remark
able values in tne roilowing analysis.
In comparison with it is given an analy
sis of New Kentucky coal, the latter
taken from the southern Illinois coal
fields, whloh are supplying vast quanti
ties of ruel in tne east.
ITew Kentucky.
Water 4.85
Combustible matter 1 86.88
Fixed carbon ; 61.43
Sulphur 64
Aah 1.80
Cowlits County.
Water 1176
Combustible matter 46.15
Fixed carbon 37.80
Sulphur 21
Ash 1.10
Few of the oldest and most exten
sively developed coal districts in the
country can boast of any better surface
showing than ia found In the above
analysis, which has been attested by
coal experts from all aectlona of both
the northwest and tha east.
PEESONAL
Mr. and Mrs. I H. Lewis have re
turned after an absence of a few months
in San Francisco and southern Call
fornla. Tney aro stopping at tna Hotel
.Eaton.
Mrs, Frances Amelia Hodges of New
'York City is visiting Mrs. Monroe Gold-
Stein S&S Sixth street Mrs. Hodgea is
(the niece of Senator Theodore tents of
Petrol t, Micrugan, uia ia ea route tram
? tha California metropolis to Chicago.
' 'Henry Bettman of Seattle, a aon of
, I Bettman of the Columbia apartmenta.
arrived gin X-U.UCWaU 9 lllV Ullf
ne. Mr. Bettman is a viounisi or
rannwn. He formerly uvea in
Ban Francisco and waa head of the
i wiiii.. snirinunt of tha tlnlversltv of
t the Pacific at San Jose. In. California
.It la aald tnat na waa reaponsiDie ior
.making it possible to tiearsuoh rtlts
"-'a Oodowsky, Bloomfleld-ielsler, Tre
- vein, Catherine Flake and others for 60
.'Centa where they could not formerly be
.'heard under $2 or $3. Mr. Bettman
spent eight years in study abroad at
Lelpslo, Brussels and Frankfort-on-the--
'Main. He studied under-Ysaya," Hear
1 aunr who is now head of the violin de
' urtmut of the Chica-ao College, . of
nnai
Music and other European mastera He
haa taken rooms at the Columbia.
Dr. J. Whltoomb Brougher, pastor of
tna White TemDle. returned yesteraay
with Mrs. Brougher from a trip to
southern California. Dr. Brougher will
preach tomorrow morning at the White
Temple, giving some of nis impressions
of the "Citv of the Ana-els."
The public library with muoh regret
la losing tha services of Mlas Eleanor
Oleason. who haa been tha head of tha
catalogue department for the past two
yeara She Is giving up library work
and returning: to her home In Rochester,
New York. Her place is being filled by
tha appointment of Miss Annette O. Mun
roa of Bristol, Rhode Island. Miss Mun
roa, who is a graduate of Welleaiy col
lege and Pratt Library school, comes to
the library after a wide experienca in
eastern libraries and will be a ftost
addition to the ataff. '
John.P.'Flnk, late bualnesa manager
of tha Pendleton Tribune and a well
known, newspaper man in tha northwest,
is In tha oily on his way to Taooma,
where ba will go Into the real estate
business with A. E5. Grafton, formerly
manager of the Taooma Ledger ,and
Tacorna Daily Newal iftk . , has L had
much- experience in business matters
and hia friends predict auceaa for him
in ats new 4ie.il.
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All Before Talks About tha Vlaaola.
"Yea, it'a undoubtedly to ba the great
sat Pianola aeaaon in all our experi
ence," aald Manager Bruce of tha
Pianola Department of Kllers Piano
House, yesterday, "Never before haa
there been such an active Interest taken
by tha publlo in the player-piano ques
tion aa has been demonstrated during
the past raw months, ana present in
auirlea have been keentna ua almost at
wits' ends to meet the demand -for
Pianola Pianos. Oar recent broad chal
lenge to all other local dealere for a
competitive teat of the different makes
of player-pianos, which failed to find a
single dealer brave enough to risk a
comparison. Is one of the most fdrcefui
arguments we can set forth as to tha
supremacy of the Pianola. But it Is
hardly mora than could ba expected, for
the Pianola has reached such a marvel
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One of the most Important of these is
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"Our Pianola conoert season will
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These concerts will be held In our spaci
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