The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-04
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF STATE.
Progress OF Industries and Manufac-
turing That Provide Oregon Peo-
pie With Payrolls.

The Eugene creamery has been
sold to the farmers creamery asso-
citation, and they propose to double
the capacity of the plant.
Sisters of the Good Shepard of
Portland will erect s125,000 build
ing on Albina Avenue.
klamath Falls will construct
sewer system in Mills addition.
Steel for the first ten miles of the
Grants Pass and Crescent City rail-
road has been bought.
The state Grange condemned the
proposed eight hour law as danger
GUS for the farmers and fruit grow
ers of Oregon.
Bids have been taken for con-
struction of the Hill railroad termin-
ais at Flavel.
The Derringer laundry at Bandon
will be rebuilt and equipped with
modern machinery.
Port Oxford wharf company has
let contract for a large dock.
An important industry the past
month in Oregon has been the man
ufacture of graduation dresses.
Commonwealth Day at Eugene
considered state industrial survey.
The first piling was driven June 8
at Smiths Point near Astoria with
public ceremonies, for construction
of the big public dock system.
President Sproule had one mes
sage wherever he spoke in Oregon ::
Open the mills and the factories and
get the people back to work.
In Linn county sample of con-
crete road was laid on Good Roads
day.
The entire floating debt of the
state of Oregon, less sinking fund
assets, is quoted by census bulletin
at $0.04.
Coos county has completed plans
for building at the Panama Expo
sition.
The State Grange rejected the pro-
posed initiative law for fifteen hun
dred dollar tax exemption.
Eugene will spread oil and lay
the dust on ten blocks of principal
residence streets.
Knights of Pythias will erect "a
two story brick lodge hall at Scio
Lumber shipments to San Francis
CO from west coast harbors aggregat
ed 23,S50,000 for the first two weeks
Of May. Coos Bay sent 5,170,000 it
The Willipa Construction Com.
pany was the lowest bidder for the
Astoria tidefat filling contracts.
The sawmills in Cottage Grove
may shut down because they cannot
be operated on small margins of prof
it and meet the demands of the work
ingmen's compensation and liability
laws.
The State Grange adopted resol-
ution limiting the power of cities to
inspect food products such laws be-
ing in the interests of the large trust
packing houses.
Portland contractors have a large
force executing the Tillamook Bay
harbor improvements.
Silverton Masonic lodge has adopt
ed plans for the erection of four
story brick lodge and Office building
The Workingmen' Compensation
act, which strips employers who re-
fuse to come under its operations OF
all defences, goes into effect July l
The Moose lodge of Bandon will
construct two story brick hall 1OC
by 100 feet.
The steel work in the new court
house at klamath Falls will be made
at Portland by the Northwest Steel
Co.
The Hudson Placer Mining and
Dredging Co. of Portland and Van
couver is installing a large plant at
Gold Center, 7 miles from Sumpter
Lumber and creosote firms are
planning to put down wood block
on the Linnton road out of Portland
Willamette Valley industries will
be feature of the Oregon exhibit
at the Panama Exposition.
Eugene manufacturers are plann-
ing for statewide exhibit of made
in-OregOn products.
The past week the streets of Baker
were lighted for the first time from
the municipal plant.
Hop growers in convention at In
dependence, Saturday, made pro-
test against that industry being put
up at a popular vote to be wiped out
of eXistance.
Labor unions are picketing the
Home Telephone Company because
man and woman have been en-
ployed who are not members of the
union, and the company replies that
ninety percent of its business comes
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