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, i - - t ; THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1921 "o) Me! Valley MdmCb. 1 f -. TWO MILLION ACRES SHOULD BE DRAINED (Continued from page 2.) tier of the tile, r A full kiln should eettle about three inches by the time the maximum heaVhaa been maintained for three days; it will settle another 1 1-2 inches in the cootlngV , . Will Lwt For Ages The tile are hard burned, until they ring almost like a bell. A soft tile has neither, strength nor the requisite durability. Mankind knows Of no other material as re sistant to the elements as burned clay." The -half-baked clay tablets of the Babylonian Assyrian and Egyptian dynasties, 4000 to 6000 years ago, are today almost per fectly preserved, eren though buried in the earth" for the rains and all the chemical forces to work upon them. -Yet Industrial America wants an even better burning than that given those 40,-century-old tablets; the Salem company burns its wares up to the maximum of strength and dur ability. ' : ' After sufficiently cooling, the kiln is opened. . and the tile are ready to ship. A kiln contains 5,000 bricks; the tiling pieces, however, are of such varied sites, that no fair estimate could be given of their number to a kiln. Some of the big building tile, however, are made with eight com partments, and are 10x12 inches in size.-'' - f ' For Itarnble Homes f , While drain tile is : the really great humanitarian-enterprise the reclamation of 2,000,000 acres of land that tody. hardly pays the cost of cultivation -the hollow building . tile - business is growing ' Hollow Tile ' Armory, Alarshf ield, Ore ' ' .- ' - ;, Jf Hollow Tile Into Immense portions." The land must be reclaimed to raise erqps on which the state lives and prospers; but once these-crops are raised, people- need better homes in whlc.h to Jive. llouse-butlding is largely a mat ter of training.; The savage "gets used to his' tent .of skirts, 'or his igloo of snow, or his klkl of leayes or bis thatehed : roof oi palm leaves. The New Metlcan believes in nothing else as he does in the adobe; the Continental European uses the .gloomiest of 'gloomy stone; the" native Oregonian has been bred to viSld .only of wood and it's hard to change any one to even a better, more economical, more comfortable building mater material. We're all Chinese ancestor-worshippers .' to ' an extent that we don't Quite realize untl we tot up the count against us But Oregon; more . than most other countries, really needs to change its style of .architecture. The forests are going, with appal ling rapidity. Wood Is more and more expensive;- but not' at, all more everlasting; The wet win ters call for, a , building material J mat will-be dry.' and wet-proof, that - will not shrink: nor , swell with the changes of .moisture; that wnilast far "longer than wood; ? that wiU please .both the eye a&d' the borfv 'In annnaranrA and comfort. . , X Moljow.ui is the Jdeal success or for the old wood house. It is "destructible; K i economical; it la. absolutely weatherprGof. both a to damage toitself and as to ; iiL tem,p?rt"- of the house in t ,n ' Jih "reproof; it is beauti- iMe.? ' Dv UA8- easI,y acce- ii !M8Cniar be na for walls of ?ftnhi neB8.J from ,n8' Par Va? WaU.;ot Crunches, up .o 20 inchea.it laid In multlp le. This ; three, or half a dozen separate compartments in a section of the wall. Dry air is the greatest In sulator known to science, it JS . practically Impermeable by either heat or -cold ; certainly so " for moisture -?Mf nature did not in vent It and burn a kiln of splen belMoned cellular tile at everv man a gate and offer to ttniM m a new-house if he'd condescend to t '"" ii, ai leasi the laws of na v ture laid out the theory of a per let-i wan insulation and put th clay here in the valley and it . the SalemxtIIe company go to it in Dunaing a factory to make the Bturi for every man! That'a at most ss good for any normal man , - I I k, ' s : i i ' -tit - "t -ii ) . I.,-.'!"" '! t :, ; '''''r ' J " J'" "'' ""J- '"''' '. i""h" ! f : ' i t 1 I.. , M.-j 1.U , : j! to have the chance to get th things that he knows are best. Some doubting Thomas of ar chitecture have wondered wheth er a brick made up mostly of "holes" will be strong enough t build a lasting wall. Scientific investigation, however, proves that rolidity is one of the most serious objections to a brick wall. Crushing teats - show that . most walls are 20 to 25 times as strong , iT I -..,...'..4 Prune Dryer as the proper factor of safety would require. The necessity for exceselve foundations, to care for settling,' is one drawback. Hollow tile has an actual web area of about 38 per cent of its total area; Its. weight wpu!d necessarily be in about the Bame. "proportion. Its compression strength, assuming the strength to be equal tor a corresponding amount of material though It would .probably be greater because the thin webs are outside burned surface which js the strongest portion 6f .any brick i-wonld etill be from five to eight times a normal factor of safety, tn any: wall. What more could any one one want than five times as much as he could eat, or wear or enjoy? ' j '-' This takes into account none of the vital "advantages of the cel lular construction, with Us sealed insulation against heat and cold and" moisture. A hollow tile house offers the maximum , of comfort, of safety from fire, from Insects, from mould and gloomy dark corners where typhoid breeds. A hollow tile wall, with its two outside and one central web. each less than an inch thick, in an 8 or 10-inch wall, with two air compartments, wUl give all the advantages of cleanliness, tire resistance, indestructibility, I : . - ? r 1 , .,..! 1 . t - s i v ... v , .-t- I; .. r. r m' -m T4 u ( .... . rrr--T? '-vL -' - - - - '- " M:,. ' y.'y- ' ' ""' ; ' . . rnw iimhi fi -"" ll'w"'' '' ' ' '" "'' "" ",; ''"'' ' " I .' Hollow Tilo Academy Building, Klamath Falls, Ore. and the added boon of dry Clean liness in a climate where dryness is One of the most important con siderations. J j : A Score of ratic"rH j .. follow I tile may be hadftt score i of patterns, for almost" any building neod. The theory is al ways the same, however; the dif ference is mostly in tke weight that !lt is designed to carrf. A single-celled wall is ample for an interior partition; a double wall for a bungalow or one story con struction; or a multiple, built up wall for a two-story big building, might be about the requirements; these ari variable in scores of ways, howeverJSccording to the builder's tastes. A tile wall may be left just as it comes from the kiln, or It may be stuccoed to make a smooth wall; this gives the ! finest finish, .and makes wall absolutely impervious to all weather assaults. The growth of the dairying in dustry! in the Willamette valley has made the silo a necessary farm adjunct. It's hard for most farmers to believe that a wooden silo can be built to withstand the empty dryness of summer, and the j rainy fulness of winter with out'; leakage. Indeed, like the backwoods boy's elephant, "there ain't no such animal." Wood staves 'will not remain the same, from one end of the year to the . othiir; it isn't in the books of the gods that they ever could do so. Hollow tile silos, however, come risht to the ideal. With their cellular construction, they can noffreeze as readily as any single wall receptacle. Built monolith icallyi and mortar sealed, they are air proof, moisturs proof. The silo tiles are cast on a curve, cut on the scientific angle by a skew setting of the cutting knives, and are burned in a perfect segment of a circle; they have to fit, ex actly, when laid up. In the top of each block is a corrugation, making a hollow ring clear around each tier: In this a continuous steel red reinforcement is laid and ccmeuted in with the mortar; it 'gives the silo the strength of 'fTTirj' I s n - i - . i r jr. Hollow XUe Residence, Stucco Finish IliUsboro, Ore, the steel, and the rigidity ana impermeability of the tile. A tile silo costs more than a v.-ood silo of like capacity; but it is a thing that, once built, is built fcrever. There are no leaks, no berns, no shrinkage, no busted or broken iron bands to affect it;. it lasts like the stone wall or the stone gate post. The poet wno wrote, -"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," must have had a tile silo in mina wnue ne wrote, for it is a thing of both physical and live-forever utilitarian Deau- ty. Salem Teople Only The Salem Tile & Mercantile company 1 ft close corporation, all owned and opefateJ by Salem peo ple. Mr. Otto Hansom, the presi dent, has lived here tfince 1884. For yfsr he was in the planing mill busing in the city, before the new corpora! took over the old brick works, in l?t0. and he became a part of the orgaiIltion. He is a large land owner in this vicinity; one of his holdings is a 120-acre orchard just over iii Polk county. On this tract h his dem onstrated some of his theories of drainage,- to the vast betterment XI . .. ST!?.:. -us. - r - ' -, .- ' .VlT' jf Hollow Tile Dairy Houses Make Better Butter I ji f"- ! : : f Hollow Tile Auto Rest Station of his fruit-yields and his free dom from frost dangers; he knows by experience that has cost many thousands of dollars, soire oi the- benefits of soil drainage. William E. Wilson, secretary and treasurer of the company, was for years a traveling salesman, out from Des Moines, Iowa; he came to Salem 11 years ago, to become a part ot the tile products company. His wife, Mrs. Jessie Wilson, is vice president of the company. They have devoted their time to making the enterprise a real business asset to the city, as well as a monument to an idea that of reclaiming a vast aera of fertile land that needs only drain age to make it a world's garden spot. The company has done nothing spectacular, other than to make a success of an idea that many peo ple have scouted here in Oregon. Some have said, fatalistically, that "If the good Lord had wanted drains here in Oregon, He'd have built them." So, too, he might have built houses, and taught books AD.d manners and govern ment by instinct as he teaches the rat to gnaw and the hen to scratch -for her Jjvlng. But that's .- ""Is i f- 'Vnff ff 4i-t Ajuii i I ; a: u ; v u" - If " . - i ; ... T I--- , ' - - . - . - i- si, . j . i .'i ' ' ' not the way ot Nature. The things are spread out before mankind, the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, with the com mandment to "know thyself." Man has learned how to cultivate the fields, how to plant the orchards,-bow to build houses and how to enjoy many things that once looked 1 forbidding. The "white lands" of the Willamette, are forbidding from the produc tion standpoint. But there is a way out. It is the Drainage Way, and it leads to prosperity and hap piness. It is the mission of the Salem Tile & Mercantile : company to help more men to travel this road. BULLETIN ABOUT FILBERTS ON WAY C. A. Reed, nut specialist of the United States department of agriculture, who recently spent 10 days in the Willamette valley studying the filbert industry first hand is at work 'on the matter for a bulletin. His department expects to issue a filbert bulletin soon. This industry, as is well known, is creating a great deal of interest in the Salem district, and it is.expected that the forth coming bulletin will answer a great many of the questions of prospective growers. Eyesight Specialists MORRIS OPTICAL CO. 204-il Salem Bank of v Commerce Building Salem, Oregon A call today may save need less pain and suffering in the future. OREGON PULP & PAPER CO. SALEM, Manufacturers; of X. High Grade Wrapping Papers and Paper Specialties A. C. Bohrnstedt Realtor Life, Fire,; Health, Acci dent, Auto and Indemnity Insurance. Bonds and Mortgages, City Building Loans 407 Masonic Dldg., Salem. Or. OUR TREES Carefully Grown Carefully Selected Carefully Packed j Will Give Satisfaction to the Planter SALEM NURSERY COMPANY 428 Oregon Building i Phone 1763 Additional Salesmen Wanted. Peerless Bakery Makers of i Peerless Bread 9c13c Try Our Doughnuts 20c 170 North Commercial St.1 Webb & Clough Co. Leading Funeral ; Directors Expert Embalmer Cot, Court and High Sts. i ( : j Phone 120 SHverton Foundry Co. Iron j and Brass Castings Sawmill and Logging Re pairs, Hop and Fruit Stoves, Castings of ail . .--i ; kinds j " ... SILVERTON OREGON , , Phone Greea iZl . " o -At' - I- - i " .? 260 North High Street Boost This Community by fAdver tising on the Pep and Progress H Pages U-'y -r Statesman Classified Ads. Cost Little But Pay Big Furmaoe for your home Buy the Ore gon Made. Foundry and Machine Shop 17th; and Oak Sts., galem, Or. Phone 886 SALEM TILE & Photic 917 ' OREGON FAIRMOUNT j DAIRY Schindler Bros., Prop. Dealers in Milk and Cream Wholesale and Retail Phone 725 Salem, Ore. Plumbing I ' Supplies At Sacrifice Prices I W. COHEN 220 North Commercial Street Formerly Patton's USE BUTTERCUP. BUTTER Capital City Cooperative Creamery 137 S. Com'l St. Phone 299 Our Idea: Our Method: The Best Only Co-operation DRAGER FRUIT CO. Dried Fruit Packers 221 S. High St Salem, Or. ! i j Always in the market for dried fruits of all kinds I THE CAPITAL BARGAIN HOUSE Buys and Sells Anything Associated with J t tAPITAL JUNK 1 COMPANY 215 Center 6C Phone SIS W. W. ROSEBRAUGH CO. Phone 1995 HOTELMARIOfl SALEM, OREGON, The Largest and Most Complete Hostelry in Ore gon I Out of! Portland ; Dodge Brothers SEDAN ; Bonesteele U Motor Co. A 1848 S. Com'l St Phone 4 23 Build your modern . ! Kome . with : burned building blocks, cheapest and best for durability, absolutely! fire-proofi f- i '4 I, !-.;. i Drain Tile of All Sizes r jg y Manufactured by J- MERCANTILE CO. ' Salem, Oregon "Where. The Crowds Always Shop 99 THE PEOPLE'S CASH STORE salem,oregon 'SIBLOCO" Pipeleis Furnaces $79.60 ; 1 And Up V. Send for circular , ; SHverton Blow Pipe Col M silverton: OREGON 1 - r W. T. Rigdon '& Son Progressivel ;T t Funeral Directors 1; j -r- P SALEM: 7. H. Grabenfiorst REALTORS ; Farm and Fruit Lands Small Tracts and Invest- ment Telephone 515 275 SUte St Salem, Ore. BOY SCOUTS deserve the support of -everyone who wishes to inculcate high prin ciples of manhood into the youth of our landi ', This space paid , for by a i Salem Business concern. A