The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-21
Progress of Industries and Manufac-
turing That Provide Oregon PeO-
pie With Payrolls.

A Lake Labish drainage scheme
is being worked out in Marion county
at an expense of $4,000.
Richland and. Newbridge, Baker
county, are to be supplied with
mountain water system to cost $50
600.
Astoria will spend $2S0,O0O this
year on seawall, and fill in fifty
blocks of city property for factories
and business.
Coos Bay lumber shipments to San
Francisco for the last two weeks of
April surpassed all others on the
coasts, S,240,000 feet.
The Pendleton Tribune says not
only the individual but every phase
of industrial activity is hampered by
too much legislation.
Marshfield city and county Off
cials are planning the construction
of boulevard to the ocean.
The Oregon Power Co. at Eugene
is making special rates to induce
factories to locate at that city.
A factory at Marshfield has been
equipped with machinery to turn out
fifty mattresses daily.
Business men in the hop industry
representing $25,0O0,000, and a
yearly output of 5 to millions are
organizing against prohibition.
Astoria is to get streetcar line
extension of two miles at the hands
of the Pacific Power and Light Co.
The Malheur Enterprise says there
will be general approval of the mem
bers of the legislature who put in
their time swatting fool laws.
Judge McGinn holds that rail
road company is not liable for dam
ages done a passenger caused by a
wreck in storm.
Construction of a water system
for Coos Bay cities costing $150,000
will be started at once and to be
completed this summer.
A farmers cooperative creamery
has been organized at Bend.
The Presbyterians of Astoria have
let contract for $4,000 church.
1t is expected that trains on the
Willamette Pacific will run from
Eugene to Tidewater this fall.
The O.-W. R. G. N. Co. is planning
terminals at Pendleton, with shops
and yards to employ several hundred
men.
Astoria and Portland merchants
are cooperating to find market
for the product of the new Astoria
Touring mills.
Halibut banks off the Tillamook
coast are being investigated.
The Southern Oregon and North
ern California Mining Congress will
be held at Ashland early in July to
revive interest in mining and min
imize the evil effects of the Blue
Sky laws.
Lumber interests and creosote in
terests are uniting to establish
number of wood block paving plants
in Oregon cities that have the raw
material and go after some of the
street and permanent highway bus
mess.
Oregon has abundant raw material,
plenty of labor but must have capital
to develop these resources. In the
mean time laws that tax the capital
and regulate the industry off the
earth are suicidal.
The Lamb mining company is
building a big reservoir near Ash
land and will irrigate the Sunset or
chard of several hundred acres.
North Bend will have wharf with |
a quarter of mile of straight deep
water harbor line.
The Oregon-Idaho Power Co. is
developing 1000 horsepower plant
on the Snake river opposite Copper
field.
Laws that deprive laborers of EN-
ployment in Oregon are to be sup
plemented with laws to create com
to employ the unemployed.
The Simpson Lumber Co. on Coos
Bay expect to employ twice as many
men as heretofore.
Mrs. Amelia Brown of Lane coun-
ty has invented a sanitary cap for
milk bottles that a Denver firm Of
fers her fifty thousand for.
The fight for the use of Oregon
stone as trimmings for the new state
University administration building is
the State Architect shall Sc
lect terra Gotta or Oregon stone.
The Port of Coos Bay Commission
has decided to raise 100000 more
On a bond issue for deepening the
1t is believed by many that the
era of fads, fancies and experimental
lion in politics and business in Ore
5on has reached its climax.