The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-12-03
INDUSTRIAL NEWS Of
THE STATE Of OREGON

hit SlAlE III UREGUN
Corvallis school tax reduces two
mills.
Roseburg will build a municipal
feed barn.
The Dalles postofice building is to
cost $4,000.
Oregon has seven candy factories
and 257 bakeries.
Donald has completed a large
double brick store.
Halfway-Bonds voted to erect a
$1,000 school house.
Clackamas will spend $751; in
1915 on a county Jail.
Silverton is planning cluster lights
for its principal streets.
Portland FIGURING Mills will erect
a warehouse at Albany.
Oregon City reduces school tax
levy from 8.3 to 6.7 mills.
Klamath Falls and Eugene are
fighting for lower tax levies.
Frye & Co., Seattle packers will
erect a market In Portland.
Work has started on a fine new
Catholic church at Prineville.
Odel-Taylor Bros, evaporating
plant burned, may be rebuilt.
Coast lumber shipments last half
of October reached 29,52S,000 it.
Marshfield will establish a coffee
club and free employment bureau.
Klamath Falls-New court house
costing 100000 nearing completion.
Marion and Polk counties will
build $225,00O steel bridge at Salem.
Bids are to be taken Dec. Is on
the Portland million-dollar post Of
flee.
Warrenton will spend $4,000 on
water supply from Lewis and Clark
river.
Nov. % Gresham and five school
districts voted on a municipal high
school.
Multnomah county will erect a
hospital to hold two hundred pa
tients.
Roseburg-Dec. 7 the county clerk
will open bids on 11,400 feet of coun-
ty road.
Seven vessels loaded at st. Hell
ems last week taking 10000 900 feet
of lumber.
The Medford p~ostofice is to be
built of Jackson county limestone or
sandstone.
Silverton Interurban Telephone
Co. has been granted right to in
crease its rates.
erno Elect Withycombe says
there will be no fancy trimmings
during his term.
Mayor Vincent and a committee
are working for a municipal water
plant at st. Johns.
Medford-Owens Bros. of Eau
Claire, Wis, are planning to build a
sawmill on Bear creek.
The Hoke cannery at Medford has
done a good business and will en-
its plant for 1915.
The effort will be made to revive
of the bills in the legislature
hat were defeated at the polls.
Salem-Insane asylum asks STA
III appropriation, or %$160,353 more
han for present biennial period.
The cost Of school books is to be
Investigated and an effort made to
educe the cost to the people fifty
cent.
The Commonwealth Conference at
Dec. 1912, will promote the
ampaign to cut out 100000 on
expenses.
The O-W. X. & N. Railroad shops
terminals are to remain at The
and will be enlarged to be-
ONE the leading industry.
Wyerhauser interests that own
yenty billion feet of timber in the
learwater district are looking for a
ill site on the Snake River.
The coming legislature should pass
solutions limiting the number of
ills to be introduced by each sena-
II or representative to five and no
r. j.. Bowers Of Pisnio, California,
as leased a salmon cannery at Til
nook and will employ from IS to
} hands packing clans, crabs and
nall fish.
The State Tax Commission that
IS raised percentages Of values in
,arly all counties Is to be abolished,
id n a will do the work in
injection with the Railroad and
lblic Utility commission.