The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-20
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF
THE STATE OF OREGON
Items of Interest Concerning Ore
gOn's Many Industries.

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A new wharf is to be erected at
Fort Stevens.
milwaukee gets an additional
school house.
Gardiner is getting up quite a
building boom.
Coquille is selling $4,000 bonds
for water plant.
City barns will be built at Port
land to cost $4,000.
Bridge street, South Baker, has
been ordered improved.
cheese factory will be built at
Murphy, Josephine county.
Enterprise opens bids August rs
for a $4,000 sewer system.
A $4,000 bridge is to go in at Oak
Ridge across the Willamette.
Railroad service is to be extended
from Independence to Airlie.
Athena will vote $4,000 school
bonds for modern building.
The new cannery at Gresham will
be located in Mildred addition.
Alvadore and River Road, Lane
county, get new school houses.
Three miles of water main will be
laid on the Portland peninsula.
The Freeland Furniture and Elcar
Desk Co. Of Portland have united.
The Haradon Candy Co. of Port
land will erect $4,000 warehouse.
The Oregon City paper industry
is not affected by the foreign war.
Forestry officials and Lincoln
county will build a road out of Wald-
port.
A four foot sewer will be laid
through Fairmount addition, Eu-
gene.
Albany business men are trying to
raise $500 to enlarge furniture
plant.
Veronica commissioners have au-
thorized sale Of $150,000 dock
bonds.
The Orenco Cooperative Market
ing Association will build a ware
house.
Thirty new houses are being built
at Forest Grove and ten blocks OF
paving.
Lane county officials are planning
road from Coburg north to cost
100000.
The new s. P. & s. docks will be
built at the foot of Madison street,
Portland.
The Salem, Falls City & Western
railroad will be extended three miles
up Teal creek.
Editor Levar Of the Coquille Her
aid refused free publicity for Port
land Buyers Week.
Molalla high school will be COM
pleted Sept. 1st, and new water
system is being installed.
A freak law that will be proposed
In the legislature is to create the Of
flee Of county advisor.
An extension of the P. E. & E. Ry.
at Eugene will tap 3515 acres, 1900
of which are in orchard.
klamath Falls is agitating for a
state highway to reach Crater Lake
and the Rogue river valley.
Total expenditures at Astoria to
improve harbor facilities will a.
mount to half million this year,
Signor Francis Griffon of Italy is
In Portland to locate fifty thousand
acres of land for great cheese indus
try.
The Jensen Creamery Co. at Rich
land, Baker county, will have a
cheese factory in operation by March
first.
The S. P Co. through its public
ity department will spend $4,000
in advertising Coos Bay and Siuslaw
resorts and attractions.
The Oregonian calls the proposed
eight-hour law throwing the Social
ist hammer into the wheels of Ore
gon industrial progress.
The Pendleton Tribune says If the
laboring man votes for the $500
tax exemption he will find himself
the victim of his own folly.
Rev. O'Hara, Prof. Young of U. of
o. and others met at Portland and
created committee to form a pro-
gram for the unemployed.
Under favorable business condi-
tions there would be many enter
prises started to put water and light
in thousands Of farmers homes.
The Gold Ridge Mines Co. of Sc
attic has bought 300 acres Of gold
placer land on Josephine creek ~ and
will put in large dredger plant.
The s. P. Co. purchasing office
that disbursed 100000 month for
supplies has been removed to San
Francisco as a measure Of economy.
klamath Falls people think the
Oregon-California Power Co. is maxi
ing too much money and the Oregon
Railroad commission will investi-
gate.
The Harrisburg Commonwealth
asks If eight bills to regulate taxa
tion and several to appropriate mon
ey and levy special taxes will tend
to create confidence in prospective