The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-30
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Of
THE STATE OF OREGON
Items of Interest Concerning Ore
CONS Many Industries.

Flavel gets state bank with cap
ital of $4,000.
South Coos River will erect $10,-
900 school house.
Hubbard Congregational church
will be remodeled.
The new bridge over the Sandy
river will cost $20,S49.
The recall is a new and active in
dustry in Curry county.
Bay City will erect a fish cannery
and cold storage plant.
Portland has ordered 100000 OF
paving and sewer work.
Astoria has a 100000 apartment
house under construction.
The Standard Oil Co. will erect a
distributing plant at Gresham.
S. A. Buck will erect box factory
at Eugene to employ II hands.
The clam canning industry at War
renton will have larger plant.
A $4,000 hotel and a $4,000 op-
Grating Co. organized at Bandon.
Gresham fruit growers begin erec-
tion of a cannery September 1st.
August 1st, Springfield celebrates
opening of new Booth-Kelly mill.
Port Oxford will promote the agate
polishing industry with a carnival.
A sawmill will be built at Joler
station on the Willamette Pacific.
Latter Day Saints, (Mormon), plan
a $4,000 church in East Portland.
The Western Cooperage Co. has es-
tablished a plant in Cases Astoria.
The S. P. Co. is putting 900 cars
Of gravel ballast on its Coos Bay line.
An ore find on Sugar creek, JOS
ephine county, runs $2500 to the ton.
The North. Bank railroad will con-
struct 200 foot dock at Portland.
Construction has been started on
the West Umatilla irrigation project.
Gold and copper deposits have been
found five miles from Cottage Grove.
A concrete pipe manufacturing es-
tablishment is a new Industry at AS
toria.
Thirty men are employed laying
pipeline for the new Baker water
works.
A big industry at Roseburg is the
distribution of carloads of mail order
house catalogues.
Marshfeld offers 1872 acres cut up
into acre tracts for factory sites free
to industrial enterprises.
The second dredger of the Hudson
Co. of Portland is being installed in
the Sumpter mining district.
The direct primary election in May
will cost Linn county about $4,250
and all bills are not in yet.
General opposition among the far
mers and fruit growers continues
against the universal eight hour day.
A. D. Helms, Medford, has bought
the Lebanon planning mill property
and will convert the same into can
merry.
The Union Furniture Co. of Albany
has been reorganized with larger cap
ital and will be operated on larger
scale.
County Assessor Strain of Umatilla
county, an expert on taxation mat
ters, calls the $500 exemption class
legislation.
A representative of Libby, Mcneil
& Libby, Chicago, is making survey
of the Dalles district to locate $751;
900 cannery there.
1t is now estimated that the $500
tax exemption If enacted will take
over fifteen million dollars property
off the assessment rolls.
The Independent Telephone Com
panies of Corvallis and Florence ask
that rates be advanced to meet the in
creased cost of operation.
The Cascade Contract Co. is build
ing houses and installing a crushing
plant for rock ballasting 60 miles Of
the s. P. main line at Marion.
The Attorney General holds that
wood handling company that hires
men only for a day comes under the
Workingmen's Compensation Act.
The Oregon Supreme Court has
Just held that the freak law making
1t unlawful to use the word "co-op-
erative" in firm name is unconsti-
| tutional.
Three damage suits aggregating
$4,000 were filed the past week at
Portland against employers In the
face Of the Workingmen's Compensa-
tion act.
Last week ended the time for filing
arguments for or against initiated
measures. 1t is noticeable that near
ly all the arguments are filed against