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TTAVINQ finished 'a particularly w.U.
factory dinner of roast young pork
and appl mum Aladdin leaned comfort
ably baek In his carved myrtle wood
chair. He drew the first filmy clouds
of smoke from an especially fragrant
Havana, the while allowing his eyes to
rest approvingly on the axqpislte grain
of the stained fir wainscoting.
A Tew moments passed In apparently
aimless revery. Then as If by habit his
carefully manicured fingers closed about
the plain brass lamp which he 'made
his constant companion awake or asleep.
Seemingly- Aladdin was ' doing nothing
save admire the rather conventional con
tours of the afltedated Illuminator, when
suddenly he brushed his hand over Its .
polished surface. -,
Instantly the genii of the lamp who
had ' been in the basement feeding oak
cordwood to the furnace burst through
the floor without pausing for more or
derly ascent of the stairs.
"I want a city," said Aladdin, without
formality.
The genii, the very embodiment of
alert executive capacity, made the low
bow which he had learned to perform
with faultless grace in Arabia before he
came to the. Pacific Northwest.
"Without a word, or even a look at
the clock to see If the split second had
. arrived for his overtime pay to begin,
the genii turned to go:
But Aladdin held out a restraining
hand. .
"Not a dead city, old fellow he said.
"Something uncovered in the way of
Babylon or" Pompeii would be, ah, a
trifle dusty and unpleasant to our fas
tidious natures,- don't you think T
"Let's f have something new. Some
thing linked to the fir forests that this
wainscoting came frem. Something en
ergetic akin to the resistless dynamo of
Western energy. Something beautiful
and permanent where . everybody else
would say it couldn't be done. Let's do
It. Go to it, old chap, and give me, weekly
progress reports on the usual sheets."
The genii disappeared. "Bam!" Then
came the announcements of Long-Bell
wizardry.
'Follow this attentively.
ftTHIS first romance of lumbering In th
i-- our country started back in Michigan
and Wisconsin. They built up a lot of local
color about the titan exploits involved
in handling thetr little sticks and boom
lng them down their little rivers, v
But all the time they were likewise
cutting down the forests. And when
they had disclosed long, stump strewn
areas that loSked, for all the world like
graveyards, they Just up and left the
-whole works cold, as it were. They came
west.
In Michigan' today you can find
abandoned mills in devastated areas. Tou
can find lifeless towns. Tou can flndj ,
a railroad with its stations and com-'
munitles, deserted.
The former Michiganders, or their
sons, are busy harvesting the lumber crop
of Oregon and Washington, .
Down south of the Mason and Dixon
. iS,m ; ni nniA nnnn k tlm, lot
of yellow pine.- But what happened to
the endless buffalo herds is happening
to the pine.
The great product of Southern mills
which has furnished the chief competi
tion for Oregon fir is rapidly getting into
- the past tense, too. There will be Just
about five years mora of major, opera
tion . in the Southern forests.
'And the Southern pine manufacturers
and tlmbermen are also coming to Oregon
- and'Washington, where the gigantic coni
fers are yet counted in the billions of
feet. .
But where the Middle Northwestern ;
ers were content to build mills and
camps the Southerners . will be content
with nothing less than cities.
King Fir must have-a metropolis. -
- rpHE Long-Bell company of Kansas
city, the largest soutnera pine opera
tor, perhaps the largest lumber concern
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- Bell Company; J- D. TennanW vN 'l- ' '
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In America, Is leading the advance from
the South to the West.
The company bought 60,000 acres of
timber land extending from Castle Rock
bordering the Cowlitx river in Washing
ton. - This was r merely to furnish a
nucleus for its operations.
It bought 11.0J) 0 acres, principally of
overflow land at the point , where the
Cowlitx flows Into the Columbia." This
was to build a city on.
For eons the Columbia -' has ramped
and raged at this particular point when
ever it went on a toot. "Settlers at Kelso
threw tip a little dyke, .which the river
in its worst moods merely snorted and'
; jeered at. ,
' Kelso, by the waj was originally
- -ciamed Monticello and was intended to ba
the capital of Washington. Now, by
reason of its proximity to Longview, the
new city. It is apparently to share honors
as the lumber capital of "Washington.
' Today a -Blender thread of earth is be
ing thrown up by Portland dredges 11 or
v 12 miles around the semicircle of Cow
lit and Columbia shores. Behind this,
narrow rampart the builders of Longview
propose to defy the pressure- of waters
brought from , a quarter of a million
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Inspectin. Site of Nw Cl,
it. w nen : i ney v munu rv, -,r . s
Modern Hotel ; Now
square miles. They" propose to build
their city without fear of the flood. ,
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TT IS the most audacious proceeding to
'Western history.' To be sure, the dyke,
which will cost between ? 1,009.000 and
$2,000,000. will contain 12,000.000 cubio
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cJife jqy compared with plans for lumber
metropolis of 50,000 oh overflow lands of
Columbia river at mouth of Cowlitz. The,
WesitvardirekofbigSa
is vanguard of
in favor of
Oregon fir.
Port of Portland Dredger, Tualatin, Beginning 12,000,000
Cubic xara rut
Being Built
feet above the highest high water known.
To be sure there- is ample ; precedent to
" be bad from dyking experience near New
Orleans, and the Long-Bell people prob
ably know a good deal about that.
But the investment in the city and its
lumber milling--industry will range from
ji'MJl -U and Pompeii are in
Southern pine
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at wngcw
f $16,000,000 to $20,000,000.- "Within two .
"years there is to be in Longview,' back of
the earthworks,, the intense activity of a
city of 20,000 people, where even today'
. the cows and sheep are grazing and wild
- fowls honk n the sloughs almost unaware (
of Impending revolution. Within, half a
dozen years Longview -expects to boast of
a city of 60,000,people, with banks, news
papers, hotels, railroads, - churches and
: moving picture shows. ' Already you will
- hear some of the local boosters of Kelso,
and Longview talking about "our suburb,
Y Portland." ''"" " ' ; .
rpO VISIT the place today Is to under-
JL stand the creative Joy of Aladdin '
or of R- A. Long and" his associates
Most cities Portland among - them-
are frankly like Topsy. Thejr .Just -"growed."
. But Lpngview Is being laid ;
out with the same spirit "but on bigger,
lines than Letchworth, the model city of
England. '"!.
famous architect of cities was en-
aoanuoiunvm
Immense Dyke Under.
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Construction
To Keen Columbia From
" ton-Bell City
gaged. ' He made the plan for the new
city. Terminals for domestio and foreign '
shipments are to fringe the shore. Im
mediately back of the dyke will be con
structed the two gigantic mills that are
to saw 00,000 feet o( lumber a day. Be- ,
tween them the power plant, that will
generate power from the waste that so
many mills' burn at their dumpa Not far
away a cedar and spruce mill, and by Its
side a creosotlng plant.
A mile back of the" mills and the shore
- the residential district will be established.
Already contract has been let for one ::
wholesale lofpf 250 houses to be finished .
by spring, - The streets, too, are laid out.
They are rectangular- in some sections.
circular in others, according to need.
They are to be broad, consistent wtth,the
pressure of modern motor traffic A new, .
' road is now in use from -Kelso down
. through the site of Longview to a new
ferry. " ' " - " . '
? A hotel of 140 rooms, each with private
bath, is under construction. - Work on v
hank building will soon start. Stores and
business places will shortly come Into ex
istence as if overnight..
"A temporary Long-Bell railroad paral-.
lela the new road. A historic locomotive t
that saw . long years of Long-Bell service ?
in Louisiana is puffing importantly about,
doubtless feeling very much af. home.
There is to be one fine, big park 'and
other local breathing - spots scattered
hr. hv Win do th most eood.
Down on the margin or cowuts river
the Central Union station will be built.
Already the Northern Pacific is an appli
cant before Uncle Barn's engineers for
permission to divert Its tracks over a
new bridge spanning the Cowlitx, so that
It can reach the city of Longview. The
Union Pacific and Great 'Northern will
use the same crossing and send their
trains in and out of the station.
TjAR from being Jealous of this, new
neighbor that promises ultimately to
absorb it, Kelso, is experiencing' (the sest
that comes with second youth or a gland
operation. The speculative element is
aot absent. Real estate values are said
to have trebled. (Fortunately the Long- -Bell
control in Longview prevents such
exploitation there.) , The Kelso streets
are crowded with promoters, real , estate
men, contractors and picturesque loggera .
It's hard tfl get a place to sleep.
Aladdin again rubbed -the magio lamp. .
Like a flash, the genii, slightly sweaty
and disheveled from exertion, appeared..
In his hand he held a neatly typed prog
ress report, which Aiaddift accepted and
perused attentively.:- '
"GoflUwork." he said at last. ."1 would
call this: going some,' better than any-,
thing in the moss grown past. -I'm for-
you, boy, .a thousand waya" - f -'
The genii permitted a pleased smile Jo -disturb
his orderly featurea , Then he
hailed a taxi, with a murmured excuse, .
-Must get back on the Job. Can't leave
it for a minute. ' ' .
r .1 Missionaries . ; .
NO DOUBT there are thousands among
- the members of our Congregation of
the Faithful who contribute to- the f una --
... kuuHn fat the maintenance
and propagation of . the ChrlsUan faith
among the heathen peoplea And we are
glad to know that the cause thus does
not lack support.. : '
- - But, at the same time, we are often
struck with the Iruth of the oft-repeated
saying that there Is plenty of work for
missionaries to d at home without go- .
tog abroad. - ; -
,- Let us take the Indians of Northern
California; for instance. Only -Jew '
them have ever been labored with ,by,
missionaries. They have- never been
taught a religion other than their own,
which Is not a good religion because it
does not teach love,, . The Indian's re
ligion makes hate and vengeance virtues.
And no religion that does this Is a good
religion. r - m . -
Besides this, only 49 per cent of the
whole white population of the United
States are members of the churches.
. it would not do, of course, to abandon
the effort to carry the gospel Into the
heathen lands. But might it not be a
good Idea also to'put a little more vigor
Into missionary work at home T Los An
geles Times