The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-12-17
OREGON INDUSTRIAL
NEWS ITEMS OF NOTE

Mill City Odd Fellows have dedi-
Gated a new hall.
A steel bridge is to span the UNA
tilla river at Mission.
Carleton boasts a new steel bridge
and eight blocks paving.
Domestic Science will be taught in
the Astoria High school.
Eugene sold $4,000 bitulithic
paving bonds at a premium.
The Granite Hill mine near Grants
Pass will install a cyanide plant.
Gresham is to be connected with
Portland by hard surface road.
CIatsop gives Pacific Power &
Light Co. a fifty-year franchise.
Baker county levy same as last
year at $780, 00 less valuation.
North Bend banks are cashing
more pay checks than ever before.
The Booth-Kelly mills have been
put on an S-hour day for the winter.
Another attempt is to be made to
enact the universal eight hour law.
BY eliminating the useless 1915
census the state will save 100000.
Concrete work has started on the
Southern Pacific bridge across Coos
Bay.
Albany business men and fruit
growers will build a cooperative can
merry.
Last half Of November coast ports
shipped 1900 900 feet OF lumber to
Frisco.
A new county office sought to be
created by the legislature is pu0llc
defender.
G%reendale, Lake county, Is organ
izing a cooperative well-drillers as
ISOLATION.
Portland Commercial Club and
Chamber of Commerce want to con-
solidate.
The declining wool industry is to
be promoted with demonstrations all
T over Oregon.
: Central Oregon irrigation projects
are planning to get ~$45o,oOO from
; reclamation funds.
) To get idle men employed upon the
t land is one of the problems to come
: before the legislature.
! A 31-lb. gold brick was brought
out orr the Oglo mine, Clackamas
county, the past week.
Al A modern two and a half story
concrete dairy barn for 100 COWS Will
Q be built at Rose City.
8 An Ashland firm has begun manu-
featuring a folding crate to ship
g vegetables and fruits.
: Archie Mason, contractor, is push
: ing hardsurfacing of a mile OF NIL
4 waukie road. Cost $4,000.
e In Washington the Blue Sky Law
was defeated at the polls, as 1t was
in Oregon when first proposed.
l. The manufacture OF buckSkl1
gloves in Curry county has been bro
ken ND by a posse Of game Wardens
o The legislature will tackle cover
a. ing S697,000 fees now collected b.
" state officials into the general fund
Al Portland gave a local firm of con
? tractors the big Shattuck School con
- tract over a lower bidder in Montana
F. W. Dodge of the Rogue Rive
public service corporation reports II
crease from 500 to 1900 horse pow
~ er.
O. The O-W. R. & N. has spent 81
" 100000 on its Malheur county extel
ho sion to the North Bank of Harne
,s. Lake.
he About the only cities in the stat
at that are not able to reduce tax le'
on les are those conducting publlcl
ng owned utilities.
~ The Rogue River Public Servit
w. corporation bids on lighting Cold III
by offering to put in a payroll OF Soe
s: to $1,000 per month.
Yamhill county has appropriate
10 $4,000 for the Tillamook road We
We of Willamina. The state will be as
ay ed for a similar amount.
The Workingmen's Compensate
- commission law asks for o thf
Nv a million dollars from the state al
industries for next two years.
lr-
81 The heads of the state insane as
lums are drafting a payrole law tn
AN will result in reducing by zoo Z
is number Of patients kept at state e
pense.
The fight to cut state expenses nj
a million and to limit introduction
bills to FIVE for each member Is
ceiving unanimous support from I
Wv W. state press.
rhe The Chewaucan Press says sever
of hundred thousand dollars worth
to property is awaiting action OF
Desert Land Board that has been {
to layed for several months.
u Workingmen's Compensation co
mission asks salaries for two yes