The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-25
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Of
THE STATE OF OREGON
Eola will have $4,000 church.

Clackamas county will establish a
sand and gravel plant at New Era.
Mercy hospital, Eugene, will build
$4,000 training school.
Sellwood is to have the first wing
of large hospital built.
Portland millers are to be allowed
to bid for army supplies.
The Langreel, Baker county, saw
mill will be located on Burnt river.
Cannery, cannery, is the cry of AL
bany business men.
Milwaukee will get one dollar gas
rate from the Portland Gas Co.
Dallas voted fair grounds and sep
tic tank bonds.
Albany loganberry drier handled
5000 pounds day.
Lane county hop crop this year
will be $350,000.
Force of laborers doubled on the
Hill terminals at Flavel.
Cottage Grove has lowered its
school tax 3 Y mills.
Astoria is to have the most power
full wireless telegraph station.
Marshfield voted $4,000 for 8
high school gymnasium.
The Oregon Power Co. has 100
men at work extending its intake fol
the Springfield water supply.
Independent bar pilots have re
duced rates from $3.50 to S1.00 pei
foot draft for vessels.
Mrs. Hogue will build 100000
hotel at Eleventh and Washington
streets, Portland.
Portland municipal dock No. viii
be enlarged to hold two large ships
at the same time.
Hood River county will vote on {
| $4,000 bond issue for the Columbia
highway.
Hop growers met at Aurora anC
protested against putting up theil
industry with annual product of Sc
100000 on a popular vote.
The State Grange bulletin says not
one person in hundred will pay any.
thing but a land tax if the $500 ex.
emption passes.
Charles Bordeaux of the American
Prev ing Co. of Baker has been look
ing up location at Fort George, B
G..
Labor Commissioner Hoff had a
meeting of officials of labor boards
at Portland to consider needed labor
legislation.
The manufacture of logan berry
juice and sawdust brlcquets are new
industries being considered in var
ious parts of the state.
BY a vote of II to / Portland yot-
ers defeated free textbooks. The in
dustry of state published textbooks is
to be established next year.
The new quarter of a million feet
a day electric sawmill of the Booth
Kelly Co. at Springfield was given a
trial the mast week
A franchise has been granted the
Pacific Power and Light Co. to build
4 miles Of street car lines in Clatsop
county running from Astoria.
Porter Bros. expect to add 500
men to their force on the Tsiltcoos
lake section of the Willamette Paci-
fic, south of Florence.
The Portland Central Labor Coun-
Gil is agitating an initiative bill to
annul the franchises of the Portland
Gas and Coke company which the
legislature refused to repeal.
1t is claimed that the $500 tax
exemption would allow whole famil-
les to take out $500 apiece and vir-
tually establish the single tax in Ore
gon.
Under the head of a state indus
trial survey the water power on the
Rogue river is to be investigated with
a view of putting the state into the
business of generating electric power.
The Oregon Public Utilities com
mission authorizes increased tele-
phone rates at Newberg, and in the
Eugene electric power case, sustains
the contention of the Oregon Power
Co.
The Socialist party is initiating
bill to tax estates and create a fund
for the unemployed, to be admins
tered by the State Labor Commiss-
ioner, authorized to build railroads
and public works of all kinds.
Freak laws have had the same eff
feet in Wisconsin as Oregon. In both
states taxes have doubled. Wiscon-
sin went up from $2,566, I'll in 1913
to $7,655,31S in 1914. For many
years they had no state tax levy.
The announcement is made that
by an agreement between the depart
ment of Economics of the State I'm
iversity and the Central Labor Coun-
Gil, a campaign will be taken up to
solve the problems of unemployment.
Warlike.
War correspondents have an easy
time. When there is no battle they