The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-18
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF
. THE STATE OF OREGON

New schoolhouses are going to be
built in Lane county, cost 100000.
Brick manufacture is being estab
lished at Sisters.
Warrenton, Clatsop and West Side
towns are to have telephones.
Lafayette will install SIS, 900
water plant.
The Gleason yards at Cottage
Grove will burn a half million brick.
Seaside will have a 10000 per
day shingle mill.
Hood River Royal Anne cherries
all sold at The Dalles for five cents
klamath Falls is now after the
Bandon wooden mills with free site.
In asking for paving bids, Albany
bars bids on concrete paving
Work will start soon on the Car
negie library at Marshfeld.
Big strike reported at High Grade
mine, near New Pine creek.
The Oregon grain crops are esti-
mated at 69,024,000 bushels by the
department of agriculture.
The new power plant for Candy
and Clackamas county is being
rushed
st. Johns is providing street for
an outlet for the Western Cooperage
Co., that employs 200 men.
Andrew Kennedy is putting in
machinery and plant to manufac-
ture coal brickets on Coos Bay.
Ashland has voted $4,000 bonds
to develop mineral springs and baths
on large scale.
The skyscraper limit in Portland
has been raised from 100 feet to 200
feet.
The Mckenzie river hatchery is to
be increased in capacity to 1000, 900
fish annually.
Sheepmen of Umatilla county are
selling off their hocks unable to COM
pete with free wool.
Willamette Pacific tracks are to
reach tidewater by October 1st. In
att 1900 men are employed.
The adoption Of British and Eu-
Fopean standards for public utilities
in this state will make further in
yestments very difficult to secure.
Portland has passed a meat in
spection act that will hamper that
industry and raise the price to the
consumer, to improve sanitary CON
ditions.
Dundee Reid, pioneer railroad
builder is dead In his day the pe0-
pie We're glad to get railroads on any
kind of terms.
Engineers are working on $780,
600 foothills ditch to irrigate 5000
acres at Medford, to be completed by
1915.
The campaign for a two-mill limit
on state taxes will be made by the
taxpayers direct in the willamette
valley
Lumber shipments out of Colum
bia river ports aggregated 6,11S,O00
feet, and Coos Bay $4,000 for the
last two weeks of May.
Governor West announces that
1000 acres of the Tumalo project
are ready for settlers at forty dol
lars per acre.
The state campaign to defeat all
freak laws initiated and to limit
state taxes to two mills will be taken
up by taxpayers leagues all. over the
state.
The publication of the proposed
eight hour law for this state is being
hastened that the people may know
just how drastic the measure is and
how it will effect farmers.
During the past week the Oregon
Public Utilities commission has fixed
TO Of onn1ity in, wotor roc
light, heat, and telephone service
Effect of order not yet known.
July 1st, the new Workingmen S
Compensation Act goes into effect
and this is the last date on which
manufacturers and employers can
give notice of not coming under the
provisions of the act
A Portland woman is suing for the
right to work for wages she can
agree upon with her employer and
at which she saves money each week
The minimum wage law forbids her
to work on those terms.
H. c. Sampson of the North Pa
cifc Fruit Distributors Association
says the Panama canal will bring
large shipments of German beer and
the vessels will take fruit tonnage
back with them
A. M. Slocum and son Emery ar
rived from Portland, Saturday. They
shipped their Cadillac by boat to The
Dalles and drove overland from that
city. Mr.. Slocum is winding up his
hl1r In, Il