THE r OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER , 31, " 1908.
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iOBZGOHIHDUSTRIES.
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-. , WOOL, SHIPPING.
.MACHINERY. ..
AGRICULTURE, !
HORTICULTURE,
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MANUFACTURING.
WATER POWER. :
DAIRYING. . ,
TRANSPORTATION.
PAPER MARINO.
WOOD RULP. ;
U FISHING. LIVESTOCK.
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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.
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OPERATING LARGEST BROO M ! PI ANT ? ON THE CO AST
50 and 52 Front Street, Factpryl2lh and Loycjoy Sls;
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, 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
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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.
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