The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-13
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
Items of Interest Concerning Ore
gon's Many Industries.


gon's Many Industries.
State Prison Supt. Lawson is put
ting in rock crushing plant near
the Feeble Minded Institution at Sa
lem to be worked with convict labor
and supply material for state and
county highways on large scale.
Cooper & Hemenway erect two
story brick at Cottage Grove.
The Dalles will install four drink
ing fountains.
Federal and state officials are urg-
ing large expenditure for extermin-
alton of rats in Oregon.
The Perry Veneer plant at Bandop
has resumed operations.
Telephone rates have been advanc-
ed at Newport on basis of revenues
sufficient to maintain improved SER
vice.
Abuse of direct legislation is
shown by the Attorney General when
he says the bill to abolish the Desert
Land Board should be called: "A
measure disposing of the present
State Engineer and putting another
man in his place at higher salary. y
Oregon City will expend $500 on
fountains, feeding racks and hitching
posts for horses to draw country
trade.
G. d. Fell of Pendleton is building
large cleaning plant.
The Base Line road is to be paved
with Warrenite from Portland to
Sandy at SS cents per square yard.
Picketing thep ublic market at Sa-
lem goes on but is making general
public sentiment against labor or
ganizations that are paying the bill.
Geo. Melvin Miller will erect a
S25,O0O hotel building at Florence.
Eugene Odd Fellows will erect a
$4,000 lodge building.
Contract has been let for a bank
building at Mosier.
| Portland water service will be eX-
tended in Irvington at cost of $125,-
900.
The Weinhardt Astoria hotel will
add fifth story.
Plans have been completed for a
$25,000 high school at Rainier.
Owing to increased labor cost and
employers liability laws cost of saw
logs has been advanced fifty cents to
one dollar per thousand.
B. M. Lombard will add two docks
at Portland costing $4,000.
Bids have been taken for a $50
foot steel bridge across the John Day
river eight miles above Dayville.
w, M. Penrod will establish a gin
seng industry at Mabery on Mt. Hood
line.
The Corporations department OF
the state government for the first
year of it's existence ending July 80
produced $310,613. Expenses $24,-
436. Commissioner Watson thinks
he can handle the business hereafter
for $4,000 year.
Eugene building permits for July
totaled $19O,92O, largest for three
years in any one month. Included
100000 high school.
Peter Loggie, North Bend, is plan
ming $45,OO0 brick apartment.
Contract has been let for the Cap.
ital highway in Washington county
The Corvallis & Eastern is being
reballasted from Albany to Hoover
and there is talk of extension east.
ward.
| During the present year more than
| 100 new houses will go up in Cor
Wallis.
John Shallinger of North Bend
will test the state butter law thai
provides for only 16 and 32 ounce
| packages.
The Portland Railway, Light &
Power Co. has established an agricul
.ural department in charge of II. r
Cross at Gresham.
I Prof. Young of the department o.
economics of the state university has
been in conference with Father o.
| Hara and other labor leaders tt
| frame a program for the unemployed
Steel rails for the Willamette Val
ley Southern are arriving by boat a.
Portland.
The Public Service Co. of Tilla
nook is installing a $4,000 gallon OF
tank.
Owing to German war salmon pick
ling at Astoria has ceased.
Hops are expected to GO to 81
cents as result of the war abroad.
Workingmen's compensation act
are forcing employers to hire mel
without families wherever they cal
do it.
Pendleton has immediate use fo
fifty new houses.
The steamer Bandon has made tn
fifth trip out of Toledo with 10000
feet Of lumber.
Cottage Grove grange opposes new
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