The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-11
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF STATE.
Progress of Industries and Manufac-
turing That Provide Oregon Peo-
pie With Payrolls.

strawberries, employing 100 women.
The Oregon and California land
grant suit involving 100000 acres
has been taken on appeal to the Su-
preme court of the United States.
The State Federation of Labor is
interesting itself on broad lines to
have Oregon material used on the
new State University buildings,
whether the work is done by union
labor or on open shop principles.
The P. E. & E. railroad will erect
a station at Georgetown.
Public and private corporate i'm
provements undertaken at Astoria
and under way aggregate four mil
lion dollars and will be pushed to
finish within year if they are not
held up by freak legislation.
The Southern Pacific electric sys-
tenn over the McMinnville loop was
started successfully during the past
week.
Brookings, Curry county, the new
town founded on the lumber industry
is growing fast
Through one-day motorcar service
from Drain via Scottsburg to Coos
Bay has been established.
The Portland municipal shop"
|.has proven an expensive luxury.
Seaside has a quarter of million
dollars improvements started.
The May cleanup of January first
mine on Sucker creek was $1700.
The steel for the new court house
and county Jail at The Dalles is being
shipped from st. Louis, when steel
plants in Oregon are idle.
Manufacturers met at Eugene
Thursday night and discussed the
vicious features of the workingmen S
compensation act which they seek
to have amended before manufacture
ing can boom in Oregon.
Many new roads are being built in
and around Crater Lake.
The Cottage Grove cannery has
an order for carload of gooseber-
ries.
st. Johns public docks that have
cost the city $4,000 year to main
tain and have been rented to paper
company for $2400 a year, will be
sold.
Eugene is paving many streets
with Clark Henry pavement, and all
the other streets which are bitulithic
are being re-surfaced.
Speakers at the Woman's Com
monwealth Conference advocated
raising the age of employment from
| sixteen to seventeen years.
Farmers and Fruit Growers gen
orally are failing to get cannery con-
tracts on account of the minimum
wage and eight hour law applying to
the fruit industry which is not the
case in California
Gresham is to have a jelly factory.
At the Union county stock show
last week 100000 worth of fine
stock was shown in daily parade.
The southern Oregon and north
ern California mining congress meets
at Ashland, July and 10.
Carleton will expend $4,000 on
paving this year.
At the Commonwealth Conference
during the past week, held at Eugene
at the State University, propositions
were made for state employment
bureau and insurance against un-
employment.
Oregon manufacturers are plan
ming an exhibit this fall in connec-
tion with the land show at Portland.
Hop contracts for the 1915 crop
are being made at sixteen cents
w. N. Turner and E. N. Booth of
Eugene will erect a large cannepy at
McMinnville.
r. H. Glow is building a hydro
electric plant at Mapleton.
The Union Oil Co. Of California is
establishing distributing plants at |
many cities in Oregon.
During May 72 vessels cleared
from the mouth of the Columbia with
TT. of luRber, against 80
in May, 1918.
Shaniko shipped 122 double-deck
cars of sheep the last week of May.
The Hill railroad will build its in
tustrial tracks up Sullivan's gulch
in Portland before July 1st.
Over 100 carloads Of machinery
vent into the new fireproof saw-mill
1t Springfield that will be operated
entirely by electric power.
The law fixing the minimum wage
or girls and women in Oregon at
1854 Is on trial before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The new Medford cannery is to be
'eady for work June 18th.
Work on the new $4,000 Y. M. c.