The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-09-10
STATE INDUSTRIAL NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST


making five hundred pounds of milk
sugar day from whey at Tillamook.
The Portland Railway Light and
Power Co. passed its one per cent
quarterly dividend on account of
high taxes absorbing all it's reven-
ues.
Six vessels cleared from st. Hell
ems last week, and the Mccormick
line of steamers carried 10000 pas
sengers in 1918.
The S. P. & S. railroad company,
Chill line) has removed five-ninths
of the freight differential existing
against Astoria.
Copper Queen mine three miles
from Leland has installed a Cotton
cyanide plant to operate by Sept.
Is. l.. w. Beach, Grants Pass, Mgr.
The Springfield news discusses
the proposed universal eight hour
law to be voted on in November,
calling it a bill to make labor a
crime.
Moore & Son of Bandon have pur-
chased the old Toledo Lbr. Co.
The .Berney Construction Co. Of
Lake View have secured the contract
for the tunnel of 800 feet through
solid rock on the Chewaucan River.
Nyssa is to have poor farm and
demonstration station.
G. l.. Huston of Astoria has the
contract for the dock warehouse on
the new municipal wharf at 12S,352,
size 80 by 1000.
McAllister & Son, Portland con-
tractors, have the construction of
the first 2S miles of the Sutherlin
R. R., grading to begin at once.
Rails are laid to Wilderville on
the Applegate river, first section of
the Grants Pass and Crescent City
railroad.
Surveys are being made for loop
highway in the Hood River Valley.
There was more rejoicing over the
opening of one industry like the
Booth-Kelly sawmill at Springfield
than over 40 initiative bills.
Ontario will try for the county
seat of Malheur county and promises
big new court house.
Coos Bay building record Sc far
this year, $232,500.
Umatilla, Union and Baker COIN
ties will work as a unit to route the
Lincoln highway through that part
of Oregon.
j. w. Gray of Jewell, Clatsop
county, is developing the ginseng
industry.
The S. P. Co. will open a dining
hall at Roseburg.
Kyle & Son will operate their sal
mon cannery at Florence.
Geo. X. Vending shows that the
hour law would add S1.65 per 1000
feet to the cost OIL umber and Ore
gon could not compete in selling.
Careful canvass of public senti-
ment in western Oregon towns shows
that nearly all laws proposing to in
terfere with industries are doomed.
The Snake River is to be bridged
at Adrian.
Willamette Pacific trains will be
operating to Mapleton by October l.
First installment of $4,000 for
the Mckenzie Pass road has reached
Eugene, and $4,000 will be spent in
all.
Laurelhurst, Portland, will erect
$4,000 clubhouse.
Crook county lower tax league has
been organized.
r. C. Orr is president Of the new
Chewaucan Lumber Co. at Paisley
and a shingle mill will be added.
Public sentiment against the ST.
500 tax exemption is becoming al
most universal.
The Emerson Hardwood Co. finds
it cannot compete with similar pro-
ducts imported from Japan, and Ore
gon manufacturers are urged to
stand for the home industry.
The shore land amendment to the
constitution proposing to take over
in the name of the state the lands
between high and low water on nav
igable channels is alarming existing
industries.
The $500 tax exemption bill is
fought by farmers as tax raiser.
Father O'Hara Of the American
Association for labor legislation will
present a unemployment relief bill
before the Legislature.
A campaign is being made for the
Wisconsin income tax law for Ore
gon.