The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-09
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST

a big business.
The Vending sawmill has started
with a force of 200 men.
The Portland Moose lodge will
erect six-story building.
Oregon Wood Products Co. on Coos
Bay to add shingle MILL
Paisley invites private capital to
establish water system.
A $4,000 residence and a $4,000
home to go up at Eugene.
Ashland capitalists have incor-
porated to build a smelter.
A new brick industry has started
at Banks with 100000 kiln.
The East Eagle Mining Co., at Ba-
ker will erect a 5-stamp mill.
Coates Lumber Co., of Tillamook.
will spend $4,000 on logging road.
Columbia Steel Co. gave employees
5 per cent bonus on annual wages.
A Portland commission regulates
construction of automatic elevators.
]. H. Smith and ]. n. Wray have
established chair factory at Eugene
The cattle industry is booming at
Pilot Rock-one grower shipped 29
cars.
St. Johns Water & Light Co. would
sell its plant to Portland for $780,
900.
There are still 10000 cords on
hand at the Portland municipal wood
pile.
Crown-Columbia Papaer Mills Co.
may operate Smith plant at Marsh
field.
The Newberg cannery handled
497,S55 lbs. of fruit of all kinds in
1915.
The Southern Pacific and the gov
ernment will boost the Crater Lake
district.
O-W. R. & N. Co. has let contracts
for roundhouses at The Dalles and
Pilot Rock.
The commission charter board is
having difficulty in getting a quorum
for a meeting.
D. E. Nebergall & Co. will erect
9-story concrete meat packing
house at Albany.
Siuslaw jetty contractors are Hav.
ing three large barges built at shin
yard on Coos Bay.
The fight of the musicians union
at Portland to dictate number to be
employed was lost.
North Bend is raising $1,000 to
celebrate completion of the S. P.
bridge across Coos Bay.
Portland is starting work on grade
crossings to cost s750,0OO, mostly
paid for by OW. R. & N.
The Burlington railroad has asked
for bids from northwest mills on
10000, 200 feet of car timber.
A S12,000,000 steamship company
has been organized to operate be-
tween Boston and Pacific Coast ports.
S. S. Bulls of Medford announces
an extension of his electric line to
big timber and a new sawmill to be
built.
Fairmount Brick Co., of Eugene.
has added tile plant at Monroe. The
company will make hollow structural
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klamath Falls--Algona mills con-
structed $500 foot double-track lift
over 500 feet mountain that handled
$4,000 feet logs in one day.
Coos county has $25O,OOO unpaid
warrants drawing interest. More
than that sum is due from taxes on
land grants held up by political agi-
tation.
Mutual telephone companies in
many parts of the state are endanger-
ing travel by poles breaking down
and lines hanging across the road.
No provision for upkeep is made.
The Scio milk condensory has
closed down. Prices for condensed
milk are so low there is no profit in
manufacturing. This cuts employ
ing labor and this market for the far
mers milk. Sometimes things are
too cheap.
The question has been asked
again: why with all the laws and
commissions that have been passed
and created during the past ten years
for the express purpose of protecting
the workingman and the people, do
taxes and expenses of government
continue to climb? Will somebody
please explain?"
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