The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-12
CONDENSED NEWS OF
OREGON INDUSTRIES

Amity is planning to build water
| works,
Off. Johnson has opened the Pen
| dleton creamery.
The Portland recall fell fiat. Th
people voted no.
Nov. 5, Portland opened the new
National theater.
Hood River is erecting an apple
evaporating plant.
Porter Bros. are planning to built
a sawmill near Gardiner.
Cargoes of lumber leave Newport
regularly for San Pedro.
The new hotel at Sutherland has
been opened to the public.
Lumber industry output at all Ore
gon seaports is increasing.
An $4,000 apartment building is
going up on the Sandy Road.
La Grande has new industry for
manufacture of fruit by-products.
A $4,000 bridge is to be built
across Nehalem river at Wheeler.
Ashland will spend $4,000 en-
larging her water and light plant.
James Hays, a Eugene hop buyer,
will build fine residence at Eugene.
new bridge across Thorn Hollow
Umatilla county, is to cost $4,000.
An excursion celebrated the OPEN
ing of the Willamette Pacific, Nov.
10
By the last statement, the City of
Portland had $1,S34,7SO funds on
hand.
Geo. Melvin Miller of Eugene be-
gins work on $4,000 hotel at
Florence.
A significant fact of the recent
elections was the prominence of the
industries.
Eugene woolen mills have large
contracts for fabrics for the Euro
pean war.
Under direction of a government
expert, candy is being made from ap-
pie syrup.
Roseburg housed 200 unemployed
and the S. P. hauled them away on
its trains.
Alvadore in one year has built Al
houses, a $4,000 school, creamery
and cannery.
The state election decided the fate
of several new Courthouses and Nor
NAL Schools.
The new concrete apartment build
ing to be erected by G. C. Hitchcock
at Seaside will cost $4,000.
G. M. Grimes will erect business
block at Seaside. E. Kilfeather will
also erect an apartment.
The Stanley-Smith lumber Co. has
rs men at work in ITS new mill at
Green point, Hood River county.
G. O. Richardson of Adams is
manufacturing 200 dozen brooms
from crop Of five acres of broom
corn.
The first of the two Hill steamers
to ply between Astoria and Frisco
is to make a trial spin the last of
this month.
The Oregon City paper mills cut
their time to five days per week, but
shortened shifts to employ sixty
more hands.
The F, E. Wray farm near Silver
ton has just completed silo Is #
in diameter and 81 feet high and it
will hold LAG tons of feed.
The voters at the recent election
had one purpose-to kill any and all !
laws which tend to retard the growth |
and development of business enter
prises.
A. K. Detwieler, a banker of To-
ledo, Ohio, has purchased an entire
town for $4,000. The town is
Grand Dalles, Just across the Colum-
bia from The Dalles, Ore. It com
prises 300 acres, water plant and
a few buildings. Detweiler says he
Intends to build up a manufacturing |
town with people from Ohio and Cal |
fornia who prefer northern climate
Grand Dalles was originally laid Off
for manufacturing city and large
buildings We're put up for shoe fac
tories, tanneries and other indus
tries. Excursion trains were run
from the east and many lots sold on
the highly colored statements Of a
Baptist minister and promoter Of the
early Seventies.