The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-07-23
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
OF ENTIRE STATE

G. l.. GanO proposes a series of state
controlled coffee clubs, to cost $4,000 to
install, state, county and city each
paying one-third of cost and mainte-
nance.
Work began on the new Simpson
hotel at North Bend to cost S75, 900.
Newport has let contract for new
high school to cost SIG, 600.
Boring gets new sawmill, lumber
company and shinge mill.
The Portland, Eugene and Eastern
has finished balasting its loop tracks
at Eugene at an expense of several
thousand dollars.
To help make the workingmen's com
pensation act, the board are is taking
in all state enterprises and institutions
possible. The state will be employer
and insure itself against accidents of
its own work.
By break in the plant of the Amer
lean Can Co., at Portland, several hun
dred hands were laid off at Eugene and
in the berry fields.
luy ID Silverton votes on a $l5, 900
bond issue for better school facilities.
The Pacific States Telephone Co. is
spending sabout 100000 on new lines
to Astoria and on the Columbia high
way to Hood River.
The Attorney General and Labor
Commissioners are making a fight to
| force the work on the Grants Pass and
Crescent City railroad onto an eight
hour basis. on the theory that is is a
municipal project.
North Bend has adopted bitulithic
pavement to cost Sl.SS per yard.
Siuslaw fshermen's union will oper-
ate Rose Hill cannery at Florence.
Macadam highway in Multnomah
county costs $3.50 mile for upkeep.
Iowa is the third state to knock out
the Blue Sky law that is also attacked
in the federal courts of Oregon.
The S. ?. S. Co. will expend SIG, 900
rebuilding Is miles of highway on the
Willamette above Springfield.
A plant will be built at Portland for
the manufacture of electrolytic gas at
Center and 18th streets.
Indications from the tone of the press
are that safe and sane" will be the
test applied to all new laws affecting
indutries and labor.
Crater Lake gets 500, 900 for high
way improvements.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
for new hatchery on the Clackamas.
Coos Bay gets new life saving sta.
ton to cost $40. 900.
Contracts for state highway work in
Columbia county were let the past
week amounting to %4, ,277, work to be
done by October /.
Pilot Rock Junction, Umatilla cuun-
ty, gets cheese factory.
Roseburg shipped the first carload of
peaches from Oregon.
F. j, Williams is running a logan
berry cannery near Hillsboro.
Nine measures of the 81 to be voted
on are aimed at radical changes in tax
alton laws.
One big lumber company in Baker
county will increase its payroll to
S25. 900 per month on August ] and
other sawmills will follow suit.
The Simpson mines in the Buckeye
district of Baker county have an exhib-
1t of ores produced on the North Pow
der.
Linn and Benton counties will estab-
llsh free ferry at Harrisburg.
Ordering the forfeited railroad lands
on the assessment rolls by the State
Tax Commissioner will compel the
counties to dig up $3.50, sos taxes for
the railroad lands whether the counties
can collect it or not.
The Willamette Pacific will extend
train service to Richardson.
The chittem bark industry opens with
good demand at a cents.
State Food Commissioner Mickle pro-
hibits sale of baking powders contain
ing albumen, and Pure Food law is in
the courts.
Among the IS laws to be voted on in
November, IA lost for want Of siguers,
and three would abolish corporation
commissioned, death and senate.
Gresham has organized a cannery
with 200 stockholders.
Drain will Install $4,000 city light
ing plant.
The initiated sur-tsx proposes to col
lect so cents on the 500 property
owned over $25, 600, and then graduated
upwards on larger suns.
Astoria is terribly torn up with pub
lie improvements, but not kicking.
Marshetild let $4,000 of street con-
tracts the past week.
Eugene capitalists will finance the
Mckenzie river road to Crook county.