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"WHY BEND
CITY,
W. D. Cheney of Seattle Describes Town's Possibilities.
By V. D. CHENEY.
(W. D. Chenoy of Senttto, presi
dent ot tho Bend Park Company,
wan asked to wrlto 2000 wonts tell
lng why Bond will bo a big city. An
Mr. Cheney Is ono of tho town's most
enthusiastic boosters, ncknowlodf.cd
an authority as a developer anil nn
author, anil Is much Interested In
Bond, there scorned no bettor quali
fied man from whom to request such
an article. Hero is a portion of tho
letter Mr. Cheney sent with his
"copy:" "Two thousand words!
Tell why llcnd will bo a big city In
two thousand words! Good gracious,
man! I know that tho lllblo tells
tho story of creation In n page; but
I am not a Hebrew, and tho old
fellow that wrote It had never soon
Bend." Tho Editor.).
" Did you over drink water that was
cold and too hard? Tho air ot moun
tain resort always makes me think
of It Did you over drink water that
was too warm and too soft? I always
think ot it whoa I am at sea lovol.
Thoro Is a placo where ovcry breath
is tonic. 1 have been thero In win
ter; I haTO been thero In spring, I
have been there In the fall. It was
always tho same something between
a kick and a caress. Never tired and
never nervous, "you wako every
morning, sco tho gold upon the snow
peaks, becomo filled with courage,
and blesa God for your prolonged ex
istence. Tou are Btlngingly alive.
The valleys are but a stride to you:
you cast your shoe over tho hilltops;
your ears and your heart sing; the
world aad your mind are too narrow
(or Out flood ot energy. One thing
Is undeniable man takes a certain
delight In existence which can no
where else be paralleled."
That's Bend, Every man who baa
been there will recognize the descrip
tion. Tnst energy alone would build
a city. And when one considers
Bend's 320 days of sunshine every
year. Its 3600 feet of altitude, Its
cool summer nights, Its warm win
ter days, and the multitude of pleas
ure-channels Into which the afore
said energy can lie directed, then one
begins to realize that here, some
day, will be one of the most famous
health and tourist resorts In the en
tire world.
Do you know that Bend will bear
comparison with the most favored
city In tho world In the matter of
scenery and recreation? Seattlo la
noted for Its multitude or "aide trips"
and Its many forms of outdoor pleas
ure. Leave out yachting, and Bend
more than checks up with Seattle.
Do you know that one can leave Bend
every morning after breakfast end re
turn every night for dinner for more
than a month, visit every day a spot
that for sport, novelty or beauty la
not surpassed anywhere, and never
the same spot twice?
These trips cannot be taken In this
short article; but we csn bint at a
few of them. The Ice cave, where
Nature manufactures ice In summer
faster than wagons can haul It away;
the lava beds; trout on the Metollus;
trout on the Crooked river, trout on
the Deschutes, trout everywhere and
all hungry for the artificial fly. Oh,
friendly comrade of the rod, listen to
one who loves your art, and spend
your angling days at Bend. Oh,
Bend, listen to one who loves you,
and protect the trout from Wit while
It is yet time. Let Crook county pass
a law at once, forever barring bait
within her borders. The trip to
Crane Prairie, where one could easi
ly spend a week. The Opal Springs,
where the worn pebbles are polished
until the spring is an urn filled with
all the glory of thousands of opals
with their smouldering fires' of color.
Spring river, which leaps a full
fledged river from the earth; Lava
Butte; the horse caves, those mar
velous barns In which the wild ani
mals have wintered for counties cen
turies; Sulphur Springs; Hot Lake,
Paulina Mountains; Fall river, aid
that tiny stream between Big and Lit
tle Paulina that makes a sheer leap of
900 feet, so tremendous a fall that
tho stream becomes spray and never
reaches the bottom; the Wind caves,
those nostrils of Mother Earth that
Inhale and exhale the air like a liv
ing thing; the many other caves too
numerous to mention; that canoe
trip of 100 miles, with only one port
age, from Crane Prairie to Benbam
Falls, nine miles above Bend, than
which there Is no more beautiful ca
noe voyage in tho world, with trout
at every dip of the paddle; and since
we have mentioned them, Benham
Falls, considered worthy of tho front
cover ot Country Life In America the
roontn of June, A. D. 1912; tho Paul
ina lakes, Davis and Crescent lakes.
Blue and Buttles lakes. Crater lake,
one of the most wonderful and bonu
tlful in the world lakes, lakes, lakes
innumerable, until tha mind Is lost
among the nam?s of them. From
Bad mountain (Cult uu) 47 lakes are
visible to the naked eye, and 300 can
be seen with an ordinary field glass!
I stop for very weariness and becauBO
the linotypo is calling.
Just think of all theso, bathed in
cool and constant sunshine, where
mist and clouds never hide them
from ylow, and where the invlgorat
ingTair makes motoring and walking
a delight!
The cool summers of Seattle and
Fuget Sound, whore the sun Is al-
' way's 'shining, are coming to be roc-
WILL BE A BIO
tognlzed by tourists and yachtsmen as
tho finest In tho world, let tin? nlr
Is humid and llfclcBs; and an almost
constant hnzo obscures tho scenery.
This summer climate Inst two
months, July and August, and has
made Pugot Sound famous. Con
stant rains and cloudy days during
tho other ten months do not prevent
tho wholo year from being delight
ful. because tha winters nro warm
and the summers cool. Moro than
all of hor other resources, combined,
It Is this cllmnto thnt has mado Se
attlo what she Is. This in splto of
tho fact that tho average tourist nev
er sees the mountains. Think, then,
what would happen If a town wore to
be discovered having this cllmato, an
altitude of 3000 feet, with sunshine
all tho year, and nlr so clear that tho
town might adopt as Its slogau,
"You can SEE our mountains!"
That's Bond. And nothing elso la
required to tnak? Uend a Itoautlfil
and prosperous city, except tho ad
vertising that will make it known
and tho honesty aud hospitality to
raae It ponulsr. In this regtrJ, no
uov town has over had such a turns
behind it. rite railroads are f-nlir
Ing It as they novor featured It be-
fore; tho First National Bank, tho
Commercial Club and this paper aro
doing broador work for Bond tl.nn
any town of Its slzo over experienced;
the Northwest Devolopmont League,
covering seven state places It on a
nr with the great cities by maViig
a resident of Bend Its assistant sec
rvtary: resident oJ Bend is onrs nf
tho 'tree commissioners appointed
to travel with exhibit cars and attend
all land shows; there la a fast-growing
spirit of co-operation and en
thusiasm such as no town evor had
before; there aro several stereoptl
eon lectures on tour, which aro
spreading farther and farther over
the country; the organization sending
them out la rapidly growing and wld
enlng Its sphere of Influence, until
it has representatives all over tholnlmais that wo have applcd to frultj
unltod Slates, ono In Alaska with a
stereoptlcon and ono In London, Eng
land: and in a city several hundred
miles distant, unexpectedly, without
preparation there wero recently
brought together at tablo 19 peoplo
whose bread and buttor depend upon
the growth and prosperity of Bend.
Her cllmato and this work have
been about tho only developed as
sets Bend has had to date, when she
has only had a railroad six months.
Bend had 600 peoplo before the rail
road came. How many has she
now? To multiply the number off
school children by nve Is often con
sidered a fairly accurate estimate of1"" ff ,th I""1 nd most Produc
populatlon. There were 384 pupils I Ure, '" forma. Already we
enrolled In the Bend public school""'-' hv"ugh to make a city of
th past session
And what a school It Is for such a
town! Its standing in the matter
of general culturo is high enough to
admit Its graduates directly into col
lege; and yet It Is the only grade
school In the United States today that
gives a course In practical and scien
tific agriculture, not In the hands of
theorists, but In the hands of experts
from the State College of Agricul
ture accompanied by all necessary
laboratory apparatus; and to this
course are admitted pupils between
the ages of S and 90 years, for In
ihu study of nature all of
us sre
ail our
cniidren, and, in spite of a
study, will bo to the end.
Certainly no place could be so fit
ting for tho birth ot such an idea.
Bend Is surrounded on three sides
by 250,000 acrea of land already Ir
rigated and BBmuch moro is irriga
ble. On this Innd every agricultural
product of the temperato zone can 1ms
grown, with the exception of tho
tonderest of fruits. He who smiles
at this honest exception will broy if
ho opens his mouth. California
does not pretend that she can grow
bananas; but sho can grow oranges.
Eastern Washington does not pre
tend that she can grow oranges; but
sho can grow p-sacbee. Bend does
not claim that Central Oregon can
grow peaches; but sho can grow ap
ples. Apples thrive; alfalfa rows
two crops each season; clover grows
(o fabulous size, and the pedlar ulr
riiim wlth'iu. drying It, so thrt It is
taken from the mow In mldwliilor
still succulent, and animals crush its
juicy stems, with all the satisfaction
of their summer grazing.
The foregoing gentle reference to
a two-lcggoc quadruped does not ap
ply to tho man with tho hoe: but it
applUs to the man with tho maul.
Tho same cool summers nnd high al
titude that make .'lend so delightful
to tin tourist havo often raised an
honest question u the mind of tho
fanner regirdlng frist Tho t'tn'ia
'rcrulnn laughs a. t'e Ides. Frosts
In other places loave riaminose In
drying. They first melt. ,md then
tho dampness slowly dries In the sun.
Hero, if there Is frost In the early
morning, that Central Oregon sun
that can safely be bet on at seven to
ono, licks it up at the first touch.
It vanishes Instantly, like dust, and
is just as dry. As proof of this, ask
my farmer what la his tonderest
product. Ten to one he will nnover
Tho tomato plant" Juno 10 to
mato plants In Bend wero as hl,?li as
tbo seat of a chair; and thoy v. sre
tkrlr'ng healthy plant, in other
w rds, on Juno 10 plant llfo whs far
ther advanced In Bend than in tho
climate of western W-ahD;tn,
famed for Its mildness. They vote
cutting hay at Bond on Miiy Jtf.
Another thins that must not bo
forgotten In this connection Is thy
undeniable fact that nil think re
quire resistance to make thorn reach
tholr highest degree of perfection
Bo It In that wo find that tho no mini
Inhabitant of thu tropica, with his
mlddny siesta and Ills uncultivated
fruits, Is fat and Indolent, while tho
Inhabitant or"th? northern temper
ato rono thin, nervous nail active
often II mis no tlnio for his noon ham
sandwich In his mad battle for exis
tence These n tho men who build
our cities. And so It Is with tho
fruits. Those of warm and humid
reglonn nro less (Inn In texture and
more Hat to the taste than aro tho
fruits that withstand moro rigorous
temperatures. Witness tho fruttu
of western Washington and onstoru
Washington ono damp and warm,
tha other dry nnd warm. Any east
ern mnn, vvhllo admitting the stipoii
orlty ot tho fruits of these two re
gions In appearance and size, do
plorcs the loxs of those homely but
luscious and juicy apples of his boy
hood days, grown whore they wore
lucky to get a crop of peaches one
year In three. Glvo this man nn ap
ple grown on tho high plateau of
Colorado, where It Is dry and cool,
and ho will exclaim. "THAT tastes
like tho apples back homo and beats
'em to a frazzle for slzo and quality-"
That Is tho kind of apples that will
bo grown at Bend,
But the fallacy ot tho fruit farms
Is soon going to bo exploded. Not
.acre for acre, but dollnr for dollar, It
can bo proved thnt tho aamo amount
of monoy Invested In growing other
products of tho soli will pay a largor
return on the Investment than fruit.
Somebody Is going to discover thin.
Somebody Is going to publish it. The
dollar Is tha unit of value; and thoro
you are. Men like Professor C. I.
8mlth, who Is paid by tho railroads
to make a study of farming and to
preach It. will tell you that, while rid
ing by train, they can tell when they
are passing through a dairy country
by the prosperity ot tho farmer as
shown by his buildings. The great
est profit to be derived from the soil
comes from farming. Tho North
western Development League, with
Its slogan of "Hens, Hogs and Har
mony," Is already striking the key
note. These men again will apply
tho same principle of resistance to
and they will prove to you that meat
from the cattle of Eastern Oregon Is
not only firmer than beef from a cli
mate warmer and more damp, but
that It brings a higher price In tho
markets, and that an eastern chof
who never saw a steer will unerring
ly telect from among a dozen stoakT
the one cut from a Central Oregon
ontmnL But this Is not "The Farm
Journal:" It la "The Bond Bulletin."
Let's go back to town.
This thriving city of health and
pleasure, with Its pure water and Its
mountains, we find Is surrounded on
three sides by 250,000 to 500,000
rfi.OOO to 50,0t people. Hut let us
go cut and s-w bat thero la on tho
f.i'irh side ot tho town.
On the western side ot Bend, slop
ing gently upward to tho mountains,
Is the Isrgest body of standing pine
In the world. At the rate of 16 car
loads a day, It would require more
than I W ykin t esbaust this tim
ber. There are 20 billion feet. And
that you may understand bow con
servative an article you are reading,
we will aay that a railway investiga
tion baa put these figures at "five
hundred caioads a day for fifty
years." In any case, the Federal Gov
ernment Is now reserving vast areas
in this same region fpr reforestation;
and these projects are Intended to
perpetuate tho supply of timber to
feed the mills of Bend. Owners have
publicly and positively announced
that two mills will begin construction
at Bend, ono within elglitocn months
and tho other probably within that
time, each mill and Its equipment to
cost one million dollars, and each to
,?n?,oy,a m,nlmu'n ' 600 "; And,
their pinna Include the provision of
pond and track facilities for five such
mills.
A cursory glance at tho lumber
towns of tho Northwest will prove to
you that such a mill town as we havo
advertised, without any other re
sources, becomes a town of not less
than 25,000. But we already had a
health and tourist city of 25,000 and
a thriving farm town of 10,000 to
15,000. Have we not now a city of
at least 60.000 to 75.000T Wo
leave you to think about those figures
while we take a motor car and go out
to sco what there is on the high
plains beyond the Irrigated lands.
Wo find ourselves, again to quote
Professor Smith, In what will becomo
"the largest wheat farm in tho
world." I'leaso to remember that you
aro not reading a prejudiced account
of this country; acknowledged and
unacknowledged, you are reading a
series of quotations from tho great
est authorities In tholr special lines
of effort and Investigation. Thus we
can also quoto the Honorable T, II,
Wilcox, the greatest exporter of
wheat In tho United States "This
region will produco thirty million
dollars worth of wheat per annum."
Alaska's twelve million dollars an
nually In gold has made tho com
merce of Seatto, Wheat also is cash.
Not only does this wheat mean as
much to Bend as the Alaskan gold
means to Seattlo, but ono million
acres would produce twonty-flvo mil
lion dollars worth of wheat. Aro
there one million acres? Tho writer
recently asked this question of Mr.
William Hanley, tho most accurately
posted man on the subject, whose
knowledge comes from tho practical J
oxporlenco ot actually farming In this
Mdontlcal roglun tor many years. Ho
roplled: "When they havo put ono
million acrea of tho wheat Innd under
cultivation, they will Just havo begun
to get started." Thin would tend to
confirm tho published ittntmuontij of
another man In it position to know
thnt there im nt least threo million
acres. TIiIh would menu seventy-
live million dollars n year. Helen
your own figures. Tho smallest will
Bhll-.iv ir. And right hero let us
say that Mr. llnnloy, the largest In ml
owner In the United State, mid
whoso laud U right In this region,
had net talked five mlnuteH hoforo he
applied thu same old principle of re
Kl.inw lo v'lent, with the punitive
Htntemout that tho wheat grown here
will bo tho finest wheat produced
anywhere.
If only Its Inevitable proportion of
this wheat were to bo milled thoro or
shipped through thero, It would put
several million dollars annually Into
tho banks of this health and tourist
city, already, before tho wheat was
discovered, surrounded by Irrigated
lands and vast forests of pine timber
BUirtclent to mnko It a city of 50,000
to "5,000 peoplo. With tho wheat,
can you imagino n city of less than
75,000 to 100,000? And If there wore
any way to atop at this town moro
than a town's ordinary proportion of
this wheat, tho result would be In
calculable.
Many a city, without a slnglo other
asset, haa been built by watorpowor
ot ton to thirty thousand horsepower.
From nine miles above Bend to ono
mllo below, thero Is 260,000 horse
power that will bo developed by tho
simplest and cheapest method. Tho
water, used over and over again, will
oporato one plant after nnothor fur
tho wholo ten miles Just as If you
wore to turn tho fire bono on tho
porch ot the Capitol at Washington
and allow water to pour In cascades
down the stops, with a water wheel
on "very step. Thero la n picture of
Bend's watttrpower on tne front cov
er uf Country Llfo In ArocrM for
Juno 1, 1917.
Not only haa Bend the waterpow
er: Uend baa a monopoly of It: for
below the town are Irrigation, proj
ects now being Installed, tho perpet
uity of which Is guaranteed by the
Federal Government; and these of
necessity guarantee the perpetuity of
Bend's power, while at the same ttmo
precluding all power for 25 miles be
low. From that point downward,
tho precipitous canyons will eternal
ly prevent any slty from being built
directly on the stream; and while the
power ot the entire stream, estimat
ed at three million horsepower, can
be transmitted electrically to other
towns; so can It bo transmitted to
Bend. No matter how much power,
therefore, any other town may have,
Bend will always remain Just 260,
000 horsepower Its superior. Also,
every added mile ot transmlsaton Is
an added expense; Uend haa 250,000
that can always be directly applied;
and thereforo Bend Is pre-eminently
tho Cheap Power City of tho North
west.
Tho town Is so situated as to bo tho
central shipping point for manufac
tures to Vancouver, II. C, Seattle,
Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Spokano, Butte, Salt
Lake City, Denver aud In fact to the
whole United States west of the Mis
sissippi Valley. Draw the lines on a
map. Ypu will be surprised No
manufactured article the auccess of
which Is measured by the number of
cities In which It can bo marketed,
can afford to be manufactured any
where except at Bend. If It Is, a
competitor at Bend will undersell It
Even at this oirly stage of devel
opment, Bend's power Is already so
cheap that they are planning to run
their Immense sawmills with it. It
will be cboaper than coal; and tho
time is not far distant when people
of Bend will find that they cannot af
ford to burn either wood or coal, Tho
Inhabitant of Bend will sleep sound
ly In the clear, cool nights; breathe
4cm1 a bracing air, unpolluted by
rmorej rl' andjal-nr "Ith a s-t un
known In any other cllmato; press a
button, and light his house; press a
button, and heat his furnaco, press
a button and tho Deschutes will do
thq rest. The day will come when
Bend will be known throughout tho
world as "Tho Electric City."
Such power alone would build a
city of one hundred thousand. Yet
It Is merely an added resource to a
health and tourist city, which will
remutn so because there will bo no
smoke and dirt, a beautiful farm
town set In a mountain valley af Ir
rigated land, a lumber town of ox
haustlesa forests; and its due propor
tion ot theso resources will mako a
city so immense that wo are going to
stop at ono hundred thousand and al
low your imaglntiqn and tho years to
name the figures.
This powor of attraction, this at
traction of powor, are thero, and will
be '.here ncrforce But how mich of
this timber, how much of this whoat,
will bo milled at Bond? That is tho
question. How much of tho monoy
thoy rcpresont will bo oxchnnged at
Hond? Wo havo already lieVt n 4rea
city, oven If only Its chnnco propor
tion of business is transacted thoro,
but lot us see what will be Its actual
proportion of this com in ores,
Tho mountains mako Eastern Ore
gon look lko an immonso lottor Y
At tho exact contor of tho Y, whora
Its three branches Join, Is Bond All
of tho uppor, or v-shapod half, of tho
Y slopes downward to Bend; all tho
lowor half, tho stem of tho Y, slants
downward from Bond All ot this
wheat land, all of this timber land,
aro In the upper or vsbaped part of
the Y; and all of It slopes downward
toward Bend. Start a car anywhere
In this Immense wheat country, any
where In theso vast foroeta east,
southeast, south, southwest, or west
and It will roll Into Bond oil a
down grade. Commerce doesn't
ollmb up hill whun It can roll down,
Every product or this Immense nron,
greater than the entire urea of Eng
land, Is going lo bo poured In upon
lleuil. Thoro tho timber will ll'id
thu mill pondn and the mills There
both tho wheat nnd tho timber are
going lo find tho cheapest power, At
Uend thin whoat will bo rolil to tno
milter; at Uend It will bo made Into
Hour; nt tloud this timber will bo
miuln Into lumber; nt Uend, the hoc
oud largest wool market In the win Id,
tho wool will bo mado Into yarn, nt
Uend a multitude or thliiKs will bo
manufactured cheaper than they en
bo made anywhere else In the world.
All of this flour, all of this whent,
all ot this lumber that does not go
onat to supply tho mlddlo states, all
of thete manufactures that urn nut
perishable- and most manufactures
are not perishable - all of these will
seek tho cheapest trnnspoitntlon.
Tlnw vvlll seek thu eea. When they
have been manufactured at lleu-l,
they will bo loaded Into another rnr,
thu cm -i lit bo given a kfvk nnd It
will roll down hill, down hill down
the atom of the Y, down hill down the
Columbia, down hill all the way to
tho sea, Ueslstlessly, naturally, all
tho products of this Immense terri
tory will roll together at a, common
confer, which Is Bend, will stop
there, nnd then ns reslsllossly and
naturally will roll on to tho markets
ot tho world. Railroads spend mil
lions upon millions to produco a com
bination like this; and thoy novor
produco It; for only Nature can do
such things; nnd she has never dona
It for any town but Uend.
All of tho products of this great
ind rich region now for the first llmo
being opened to commerce, will find
their nearest market at Bend, their
cheapest manufacture at Bend, their
cheapest transportation to, through
and from llcnd! and Inevitably, Just
as certainly as the sun will rise to
morrow morning. Bend will become
one nf the great cll'c of tho coaat.
second only In size to Seattle, Port
land, Ban Francisco and Los Angeles.
In other worda, Uend will become
the largest Inland city west or the
MlM.talppI Valley.
Brick Plant is
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tries that Uend tins, and one of the
most valuable In tho upbuilding of
a city, la Its brickyard. The prox
imity of a practically Inexhauatlblo
amount of excellent brick clay, and
the operation of a first class brick
manufacturing ptint, places tho town
In an enviable position as ptgnrds
tha supply of this Important build
ing produrt.
Tho Bond Url'k l.timl-er Cmii
pany's yard lies ulxiut two miles west
of town, with a good rond Interven
ing. About 30 men are rmplo)ed
at present by tho company, with a
monthly payroll of approximately
$3000. The dally output Is 20,000
brick
Up to tho middle of June 700,000
brick had been turned out. The
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great imtjotlt) of tlidkQ havo boon
tiiqil by looal builders, ami many
thousand mote Imvo been oiiKnited,
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railroad points. In addition mmiy )
wnitou IouiIh urn taken liy jnirrlniMi.ru
to polntM In the vicinity, soiiio brick t
hoIiik In this way 100 miles,
Tho company Is composed of V I,.
Scott, A. II. Horn ami It. (!. Culver,'
each unit third owner. The mechnul
enl equipment of the plant cost about,
ITBUl), nun in in every way up to
ditto nnd capable of turning out u
first chum product, In largo enough i
quantities lo meet the roquliemoiiln
uf thu field for souin vars to come
The plnut'n equipment Iiu-IuiIm)
sort mud prom, disintegrator and it
utoM iiiiichlny, n 32hotcpowii
steam engine which supplies powvr '
An Important Item of tho equip
ment Is n well, which was sunk to it
depth Of 319 feet.uud rurnlshts mi
Inexhaustible supply of excellent wa
ter. Another asset tho yard has Is
n natural storehuuso of fiuo sand,
pronounced by experts to bo tho best
possible for brick making. Tho
sand was found In a great cave on
tho J, F. IMorco place, southeast of
town.
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Building Stone J
Is Abundant I
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Juat west of the river and north
of the sawmill or The Uend Com
pany, tho Bnd tttono Company Is
engaged In quarrying pink, brown
and black stone tor the construction
or buildings here and In other towns.
From this quarry, which Is located
on the land ot The Ilend Company.
was taken the stone for the Bend and
the front ot the Bean and Marlr;
Itodmond depots, the Boyd building,
Simpson buildings hero nnd of thu
Irvln building In Itodmond.
The quarry Is only about a mllo
from tho center or town, with an easy'
grade for hauling. There Is a solid
front or lodge of the rock 36 feet
long, snd the quantity Is unlimited.
The stone Is being taken out by W.
A. Heaver aud sons Hay and Troy
and W. A. Hates, who havo leased It
from the owners. They already havo
quarried ready to deliver some 600
(Kirch.
Mnkr-i HnmlMime Buildings.
This stone Is a durable and cheap
nintorl.il and makes a lundsoitio
building. Mr. Beaver sas It U.
absolutely fireproof and absorbs but
little water. It does not hold treat
as has been erroneously believed by
some people, he declare. ,
Tho stono Is being used not only
hero but elsowhsro. it will doubt
less becomo a big Item ot export from
Ilend. Tho quarrying compauy h.v
recently been asked to quote prKes
on 50 carloads to be shipped to Port
land. -im.ui srsaraerc
Machinery.
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