The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-14
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF STATE.
Progress Of Industries and Manufac-
turing That Provide Oregon PeO-
pie With Payrolls,

turing That Provide Oregon Peo-
pie With Payrolls
The United Railway Co, part of
the Hill System has been madag q
showing during the past week Of rev
enues on the Linntou and Portland
line asking an increase Of fares from
FIVE to ten cents, on the ground thaa
it costs nine cents to haul . pssssD-
ger between those two points.
Marion and Claekamas counties
are holding road bond elections. May
Is. that will, II carried, result in ex-
penditures Of over million dollars
on hard surface highways.
The Cottage Grove Cooperative
Creamery viii ask to increase its
capital stock to $4,000 and enlarge
the plant.
The business men Of canby are
trying to establish a ferry across the
Willamette.
Farmers and fruit growers OF the
state generally are organizing against
the proposed eight hour Law.
Arrangements have been complet-
ed for the construction Of 27 milcE
Of logging road out Of Sutherlin
toward Coos Bay.
The Catholics will build a church
at North Bend in connection with
their hospital there.
The Southern Pacific will build
mile passing track at Mohawk juno
tion.
About two thousand dollars has
been subscribed to establish a pot
terry plant at Molalla.
State Labor Commissioner Hoff
has not carried out his threat to
have the State officials placed under
arrest for not introducing the Eight
Hour law in state institutions.
The S. P. & s. railroad is consid-
ering building a new line from the
John Day river to its new terminals
at the mouth of the Columbia if
better business conditions warrant
the expenditure in Oregon.
A new company has been formed
at Newport to put modern halibut
fishing schooner on the banks north
of that place.
Hominy is said to be the only i'm
portant food product not manufac-
tured in Oregon.
The Lebanon Sand and Gravel Co.
has installed lot of new machinery
for modern plant at that city.
w. w. Cotton is heading a move
ment for farmers cooperative can
merry at Gresham and the Brownsville
plant may be moved there.
The farmers do not appreciate sell
fo rly OF n
pay increasing taxes to shorten the
workday of public employees to eight
hours.
The wool industry of eastern Ore
gon is passing through season of
the greatest activity, prices going as
high as nineteen cents.
San Francisco advertises the low
est tax rates of any city from Stock
ton to New York and is getting many
factories.
The grading crew on the William
cite valley and Siletz railroad is
working as far west as Hoskins.
The made-in-Lane county exposi-
tion was a great success, and con-
cluded with a -in-Oregon Ban
quet Saturday night at the Osburn
hotel in Eugene.
The longshoremen' strike to force
recognition of the freight checkers
union at Portland proved failure
when passengers cancelled their tick
cts on the vessels affected on account
of the delay.
Work has commenced on a new
brick building for the Courier at Ore
gon City.
Roseburg people are up in arms
at the threat of Governor West to
annul construction of barracks for
the Soldiers Home as provided by
the last legislature.
Bids have been taken for the con-
struction of the new public docks at
Astoria.