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THE r OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER , 31, " 1908. r iOBZGOHIHDUSTRIES. U WHEAT. FLOUR.; " s ix I iivrann TiMnirt) -. , WOOL, SHIPPING. .MACHINERY. .. AGRICULTURE, ! HORTICULTURE, mm MANUFACTURING. WATER POWER. : DAIRYING. . , TRANSPORTATION. PAPER MARINO. WOOD RULP. ; U FISHING. LIVESTOCK. rnNiNa.coAi;, fin Nature Has LavisWy Supplied Oregon Witk All Kinds of Materials for tte Construction of tte Largest BuiUingsBuilding I Stone, Ce ment Factories and Iron Works; ' ' . " ": . Onto BoUdlnff Maiariala. Millions of , cubic yard,, of ' building stone unquarrled in Ore- tt gon.V Ingredients or -cement,; and' sites for mills, all In Oregon. ; Big. growing Iron and steel works now running In Oregon. Brickyards whose product la going all over the west, In Ore- gon. - Cement block plants opening ; aiid several operating. In Oregon.' Market for cement, shown - by value of cement Imported from Europe In one year,, $639,000. , IN THE HILLS and the valleys of the great Oregon country Nature has' planted- the materials for the construction of its buildings. That the development of the iron working industry, the manufacture of cement, and the quarrying of stone is not ad vanced farther is due to the fact that the same generous Nature placed dn the surface of the ground the means for the quicker" development of an other industry. Man has simply util ized that which first came to his hand. The lumber Industry is now ap proaching its height. The era of the development of those industries whose bases are found beneath the surface of the earth is just opening. In the Oregon country there is plenty of good building stone and yet but -a fraction has ever been quar ried. The ingredients of cement are at hand, yet its manufacture is still only planned- The day is not far distant when a large office building can be con structed in Portland in this manner: the cement for the concrete work df the foundation will have been manu factured in , Oregon; the iron from which the steel frames have, been formed will have been mined in Ore gon hills; the frame work itself will have come from an Oregon foundry; the decorative brick and finishing til JufjSfee Oregon made; and the ele vlwrTthei sheet '. metal . work, s the plumbing . arid the fixtures will bear the Oregon stamp. Inside the offices the desks, the counters andhe chairs as well as the vaults and safes will have been .manufactured in the Beaver state.- , , . , What, the Empty 'Ship Will Do. i': Cement and its allied industries are, so far as this portion; of the Pacific coast is concerned, effected I- by an outside circumstance. This fact alone Jhas kept back the development of the cement industry here a score of years, although today concrete is being used in a hundred different ways, and seems susceptible of being, more gen erally employed than any other build ing material. This outside 7 circum ' stance is the fact that .Oregon farms are ' forever pouring ' wheat into the yawning granaries of the. old world, md , that foreign ships 1 bring to this coast at almost ballast freight 'rates scores of cargoes of .cement every year. With'.the German, English and French cement constantly at hand and at a comparatively low cost, it is no . wonder that capital has not ; until re cently interested itself in the develop ment of the cement making industry on the Pacific coasfi.,, .; ). .' What this importation of European dement on wheat ships means may be judged when it is learned that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, 194, 600,036 pounds of cement was entered at the Portland custom house.. The value of these, shiploads was $639,000." Yet every v barrel of that cement might have been manufac tured in Oregon. ' - - When the cement plant soon to be constructed 1 at Oswego is grinding, tha import figures will doubtless itell another story, but theOswego mill is but one of many wnicfc? it "is be lieved," will ". before many" more years be turning out thousands of barrels of cement annually in this state. This foreign cement coming in every year leads to a strange twist in the cement , trade. The contractor who, comes from the. east. with a full Npw, however,, there are such ,mauu- acquaintance with the cements 'of half factories in the state as? that' at. -New-a ' dozen: states finds brands ; bearing berg- whose, product is ' sent out; into new names and with which heis an a ;wider market. - Another , plant, at entire stranger. .?Pofil5nd contractors.. Vanc6uvethas been helping to supply in this respect 'ae. much, nearer ,thc local demand ,for-inany3rars, ri: mills of Belgium and Germany than is As .lumber, increases in costfeo does: the.cement man in New. York despitej the -brick industry,: develop,, arid'fthc ; the tact -.tnat itne cement in. ques- fact remains that but a-fractunv ot ;the tion - has;' traveled an ; additional1 ciayg to be found in Oregon' have 8000. miles or.so.' . The Kansas cement been sufficiently experimented ;. upon. ' and others manufactured in the middle . All . over the state, there' are; bricks wesf'and east are largely barred from lyards'which keep up'with the demand this market on account of the rates by upon their capacity, a demand ;that is rail across the continent being higher growing monthly, and is accentuated thanaround South America by,water.m0re and more as the people of the Many Quarries Yet Unopened. V t state , begin to realise:-that;-roade-in--' " Lumber has from the very first been Oregon; brick is as good as that made the natural building material "in Ore- anywheje.., : . , v-'iX--'.vS.''5-:'rf.;-, J : gon, and the ;;? quarrying . of ; -stone," j , Ironworks That Are Growing.1 ' -; though it began in pioneer days,1 has Oregon and especially. Portland is been hampered in its development by becoming , B large customer . of " the the lower cost and constant presence ; Pittsburg steel, mills,- forested is iji for immediate use of sawed timbers. ; 'constant demand. While the .larger ' The largest producing quarry'in the pieces are shipped complete from the state at -present .is -situated at Oak-; Pennsylvania mills in most cases.'- the land, Douglas ' county. This V stone Jron and steel workstot the state are competes with that brought in ' from calling more -and Imo'fejfor, the crude neighboring states. That other quar- material which is beingvworked up ries can boast of a product ofa thor- here into building; framework; : parts oughly marketable grade is shown by for bridges and the multitude ,of o.ther the appearance-of the i postoffic at uses ingenious man has ifound for Salem, the stone for which came from steel. Every, year ; aV larger s propor a quarry still farther south in Oregon, tion of things of iron, lare' and. small, : Along . the- banks' of both" the upper iVare made , in iPortlandl. Boilers and , and the lower Columbia have been hydraulic rams, J for. instance, .which found valuable deposits of sandstone are, made V inT; Portland have, found and other'Yypes of rock. ' A quarry at favor elsewhere, and are enjoying a St. Helens, on the lowfcr river, sup- ready sale. Plates for steamers' hulls plies the, greater" part 'or, the demand may be', included in the list. ; for stone blocks for paving purposes. When, once the basic material is on It ; has been' declared byexperienced the ground, this-classification, includ stone men who have studied the for-- irig iron, steel and cement, there are mation at other points along the river plenty of shops to fashion such things that equally good stohe exists' in ; as' heating apparatus,' sheet metal cor quaoHties not to be measured? The.nices, brassr work,' hlow pipes, etc. mountains have not yet revealed 'one ) Fur th ermore, there -are shops in the tenth of their secrets.: r i state doing work: of the kind seldom Ayhile Tenino, Wash.; is outside the found outside," the centers . of the state it -is still within the boundaries: world's manufacturing. Eor example, of the old "Oregon country," and here a, few weeks ago:the' first surveyor's a large quarry is turning out a grade transit, ever made-west of .the "Mis of stone which compares very-favor- sissippi river - was completed by(a ably with building stoneobtained any- .Portland instrument. maker. , ; where. The cast side high, school is , In such lines of work as the rrianu an example of the product of . this facture ' of furnaces and sheet -metal quarry.' , ' ' A devices Portland artisans have estab- The . manufacture . of brick was a lished a reputation.' Closely associated recognized industry atthetime of with the making of a, building ' also Pharoah's-reign, and the making of is 'the manufacture of .' awnings, now brick- began in Oregon many? years deemed ' so ; necessary a part of a ago. But the Egyptians, wise though building's equipment. Portland's list they were in the construction of pyra- of awning manufacturers is' especially mids, knew uot how to mix clay as strong, i r ' . do some-of the s brickmakers of-Ore- The making of concrete blocks is gon. Overshadowed by the lumber a new -industry, , but as the - constant industry, brick manufacture - did : not importation of foreign cement' makes reach a high stage - of development the 'cost fairly staple-here, already Until a comparatively cfew years; ago. several companies have been formed and plants established for fashioning cement into building blocks both plain and ornamental. The completion- of a- number of cement block buildings, residences for tjie mtfst part, has called attention to the part' ; these blocks are to play in the invasion of cement more strongly than ever into the .building material market, while the erection of great office buildings of concrete reinforced wii steel rods is becoming "a 'famifiar. sight' about Portland. . ' rn . Portland alone there are 53 ce- ment contractors.,-To present a few more . figures, there are 24 men or firms engaged. in selling building ma terial and 334 carpenter ' contractors. Brickmakers to the number-of 24 go far . toward supplying, the city . brick trade. .Portland is growing almost daily. as a distributing point. : Eastern manu facturers are learning that a live rep resentative in Portland can . keep in touch with a large trade and do a profitable business. This will be no-; ticed especially in scanning the adver tisements in machinery- and general trade publications which have . a , na tional circulation ' "Pacific coast branch, Portland, Or.," is a familiar phrase. IlililK 1 w y om 5 I I .mss It.. . - Tsfrl,F'-f f t 2fl . S 'V . r?- ,l .1'" - i ZAN -.art- ,-frrs :.'Jf ' "v "-.. S . v,'? . 1 " 3ROS MANUFACTURERS OF ' -x BROOMS ; AND matches AND JOBBERS OF ; ; Wooden and Willow Ware, Washing Machines, Paper and Twines GROCERS' SUNDRIES ,1 i V OPERATING LARGEST BROO M ! PI ANT ? ON THE CO AST 50 and 52 Front Street, Factpryl2lh and Loycjoy Sls; HARMS .4 GE MACI , It is fitting that a city of . roses, like that of Portland, which enjoys such beautiful, mild weather throughout the year, and which scarcely ever experiences frost, should have ' the only exclusive ice machine works in the Pacific north- -west. What nature does not supply .through the agency of J. Frost is made not only pos sible, but very easy, through "the Harris- Ice ,Machine Works. And as aqua pura is an essential ingredient in the making of ice, it is a pe- 1 culiar coincidence that ; this ice machine plant is situated on Water street. The importance of such an' industry as this is appreciated most by those who would'' have to depend on the big ' eastern plants to furnish these ice machines Mf they didn't have such a factory on the coast.. " " ' . ".-'. .: This firm is well able to compete with the eastern ice machine works successfully, and is better able to meet with .the requirements of western people. . . ' ; '' II. E. Harris, , the founder . of this great plant, has seen it grow and expand from a very unpretentious shop to the exy tensive works it is today. He saw the pos'sibilities in the Oregon field and had great faith in Portland and was con - f ident 'that he could com mand enough business to sup-, port a modern ice machine: factory. -AlPihat was neces sary was to furnish machines as good as could be secured in the east, and at as little cos.L. That, his hopes; are already , realized is evident ; froni r the large patronage he is securing. The Harris Ice Machine , Works is equipping cold-stor-i age and freezing plants all ' 'Svi-C '.:::,::f:::;:-::::, ;::s:W-:W::; w.--:"-!x'i::-t;''' :-. :'" ' j'.':::":-:::': v:v;.::-::t'?x -il'SivS:':1:':1-')1'' '.jtitS ! i V ! LI v " ' ' .;:,: . ". tr'v-V I - - T t -r' : i . - HMiHHHkMiaiWtaMIMKdUShdMHMMSWSaiasHSBSaHaHM SMlMiUi SI I li -1 " - -...--. .-..' v--..-.v-i -?-- - .. jtr. ja .Mjaw .v.1.1 avAvj. -- j. .-.-..w. a . A.v.-.i ' HOME OF.THE HARRIS ICE-MACHINE WORKS 125-TON HARRIS ICE MACHINE i . It n it t "i - A - ; ; - M! II r -V:-v , f -1,1 j ' ''''' i ii iM iln in tliil iifiia mum " ' - - rM M . . . n GENERAL VIEW; OF THE MACHINE: SHOP,. SHOWING ICE MACHINES IN COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION - ovef ' the, Pacific slope. Such an institution is a "decided ad vantage, as it saves much time in the delivery of the machines.- It generally takes at least a month for freight to reach the coast from the east, and a month means much to a manufacturing "establishment. Not only-this, but in. case therferis anything missing, or . in case of repairs, it means, a great loss of valuable time and ; possibly thousands of dollars worth of business. , Four years ago a two-story building was erected on a quarter ; block on East: Water street. This was thought large enough to take care of the business for many years, but last year, it was found necessary tOienlarge, the build- 1 ing, and now it is almost im perative to. enlarge agairu ' The.company may have 'to se . cure more: ground and ; erect ; additional buildings' to enable it to cope with the anticipated , increase of business which will ,. come with the general expan- - siotl of the whole .Pacific coast. . . The fish industry is a very . important one on . the coast, and the construction of piod- ern ice. machines to meet' the demand for the extensive fish- ; i eries has been solved by Mr. t Harris, who has made a study of the ice ' machine business. Tlie fact that "the majority of the. ree2i'ng plants on the . coast are supplied by the Har ris Ice' Machine Works is pretty positive proof . of the superiority of the Harris ice ; machines The interior view '".of he factory .shows the cast- . ings of the big 123-ton ice ma chine recently built for t!i . Crystal Ice (Company of Port- .land. Tlie plant and offi. of the Harris Ice M.v Works are at llfflt W'-r ' street. "7
