The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-10-01
STATE INDUSTRIAL NEWS
What Buildings and Industries are
Doing to Make a Greater Pay
roll for Oregon.

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built at Adams.
Albany is calling for bids for a
new $4,000 high school.
The Heppner Milling Co. distrib
utes $4,000 annually in wages.
The new Pendleton hotel costing
$4,000 has been opened to the
public,
Work on the Sutherlin, Coos Bay
& Eastern Railroad is being pushed
rapidly.
The Sutherlin Railroad has been
granted a franchise on Sutherlin
streets
McCully & Rumble of Joseph have
just completed a concrete office
building.
Joe Knowles got what he went af-
ter-publicity, the greatest Oregon
product.
Portland will soon erect another
"a classroom school at cost of
100000.
The Willamette Pacific expects to
have rails to Tidewater before the
rainy season sets in.
The Marion county court house is
to have a new heating plant Install
ed by T. M. Barr of Salem.
Quarterly payments of taxes is a
popular movement that would re-
lieve industries in practical way.
European War has demoralized
the fruit industry and freak labor
laws are Gripping the canneries at
home.
The Lebanon Lumber Co. Will be-
gin soon to ship logs to their mill at
that town and the mill will be run to
capacity.
Proposed plans for. the improve
ments of the old st. Johns road out
of Portland calls for the expenditure
of $175,OOO.
Cyanide jumping from 10 to Is
cents a pound on account of the war
is hampering the mining industry in
Baker county.
During the harvest season to save
crops farmers must work II to IA
hours. What will an S-hour law do
to the farming industry?
The Standard Oil Co. is preparing
to erect tanks at Lebanon making
this point the distributing center for
that part of the country.
Portland Catholics are planning a
home for Archbishop Christie and
other buildings for 1915, total i'm
provements to cost 0,000.
VIM. Kyle & Sons Co. salmon can
merry at Florence has started opera
| ton and will distribute S20,010 to
| the workers dEring the season
The enactment of nearly thirty
| new laws on the ballot this year
| would be an industry at the expense
of all the industries, says the Ore
gon Manufacturer.
The La Grande 100000 Elks
| lodge will be erected by the Palmer
Ellsen Co. of Portland 1t will
have Otis elevators and finished in
| Seattle terra Gotta.
The new Portland post Office will
| have two floors devoted to mail work
and seven floors of offices for the
army of federal officials and COM
missioners at Portland.
Pacific Coast Manufacturer. Gov
ernment ownership of public util-
tiles should not be used to break
down investments of capital in public
utilities if Oregon is to prosper
The state railroad commission has
protested against three per cent
tax on freight shipments as a means
Of raising governmental revenue to
offset the effects of the European
war.
Bids being received for the re-
construction of the headWorks at
the intake on the East Fork of Hood
River and construction Of Main can
al for an approximate distance OF
six miles.
Portland bankers recently re-
turned from the banking conference
at Washington, D. c. state eastern
factories are running night and day
to fill orders brought about by the
European war.
The $4,000 rock crushing of the
Cascade Construction Co. at Marion
has begun operation with payroll
of 100 men at $4,000 per month. 1t
is expected to distribute 100000
yards of crushed rock on the S. p.
Co. tracks in Oregon.
The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk
Co. will Immediately proceed to en-
large its Hillsboro plant to meet the
demands of the constantly increasing
ing offerings of milk. The new
building will be of concrete 140 x
140 and when completed will give
!. the local plant capacity of 100000
pounds day.