The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-07-23
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
Facts And News Items Concerning
The Industries of The State,
And Their Activities.


fered on Coos Bay.
Union Oil Co. builds a $4,000
storage plant at Eugene.
Granite Hill mine in Josephine
county is to be operated.
Bids are being taken for $11O,-
900 high school at Eugene.
A streetcar line is to be built from
Baker into the Eagle valley.
Fruit packing will start August l
in the Rogue River district.
Nehalem has voted bonds to pur-
chase the present water plant.
A $4,000 creamery will be erect
ed at Alvadore on Fern Ridge.
Grants Pass box factory is to re-
sumo after lying idle four years.
Booth-Kelly Co. is erecting large
fire-proof drykiln at Springfield.
A San Francisco firm will erect a
brick block on 9Th St., Portland.
Clatsop county has 700 men en-
ployed on the Columbia highway.
The Clackamas Gas Co. passes up
milwaukee and will supply Oswego.
A Federal Court and Postoftice
building will be erected at Medford.
A motor road will be built from
Mapleton to the beach at Florence.
The 100000 gallon reservoir of the
Bend Water Co. Is nearly completed.
Eugene Fruitgrowers Association
will manufacture Loganberry juice.
The Vesuvious mines in the Bo-
hemia district are getting out much
ore.
Grants Pass has paid out on the
Crecent City railroad to date $685.
318.
Congress gave $150,000 for the
fish Matching stations on Oregon wa
ters.
The old Long Placer mine near
Cottage Grove is to be worked for
gold.
The s. P. Co. bridge payrolls on
Willamette Pacific will be $4,000
per month.
Representatives of the Oregon-Cal-
ifornia Electric at Medford have been
at Riddle to install service.
The Hudson Gold Dredging Co.
will construct another dredge for the
Sumpter gold placer mines.
The Fremont hotel recently des-
troyed by fire at Salem will be re-
built of brick, to cost $4,000.
Eugene Iron Works has taken
contract to manufacture 500 of the
Harden Sanitary Drinking Foun-
tains.
A test case has been brought in
Marion county on twelve grounds to
test the constitutionality of the Blue
Sky Law.
A schooner arrived at Marshfeld
! loaded with skins, tusks and Oil OF
sea lions, a new industry on the Ore
gon coast
The Greenback mine in Douglas
county has been sold to a Mexican
syndicate and will be operated on
large scale.
Canneries all over Oregon have
run on restricted output, and paid
low prices on fruit on account of too
much legislation.
The bridge across the river at Sa-
lem has been condemned and the two
counties and the city will erect
100000 structure.
The Workingmen' Compensation
commission has put out nine travel
ling auditors to drum up business for
settlement by the state.
Representatives of Swift & Co.
have been hammering the Oregon
cheese industry with importations
| from Canada and Wisconsin.
The Coast Bridge Co. of Portland
got the bridge at Yamhill for one dol
lar less than the Portland Bridge Co.,
its closest competitor, $4,499
|
w. R. Scott, general manager OF
$500 miles of the S. P. system on
the Pacific coast, says railroad earn
ings will soon be on the upgrade.
A. B. Hammond of San Francisco
says ships costing $1,000 to operate
will soon be sailing from Astoria and
a ariroad will be built down the
coast.
Portland meat inspection ordin-
ance has been taken into the courts
on the ground that it discriminates
against all small packers in favor of
the meat trust.
The Oregon Public Utility COM
mission shows disposition to allow
capital invested in these properties
to make fair return and thus en-
courage further investments.
The Interurban Telephone Co. asks
to be allowed to raise rates 21 cents
per month on account of increased
expense caused by minimum wage
and eight hour law for women.
Labor Commissioner Hoff decided
that the bridge crew on the Grants
Pass railroad could not be employed
over eight hours. The men got 1920
day and overtime, but were stopped