The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-04
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST

Forest Grove has let $5S,44S sewer
contract.
Echo is taking bids on city hall so
by so feet.
Salem city budget reduced $40, 600
from past year.
Dairymen at Candy are discussing
a cheese factory.
Amity water works contract has
been let at $9770.70.
Willamette paper mills are
shipping to Australia.
The Dalles is to secure another
dried fruit industry.
$4,000 bushels of wheat have been
sold at Condor at 90c.
A mile of hard-surfaced road will
be laid near Flagstaff.
The sixth garage at Pendleton now
being built of concrete.
Hubbard dairymen would organize
and import registered cows.
Lane county is to get two clover
seed cleaning plants.
w. P. Murphy is to build concrete
theater at North Bend.
A sewer contract for $18,652 has
been let at Enterprise.
Baker power plant cannot supply
current for needed lights.
Pilot Rock has granted franchise
for electric lighting plant.
Coos Bay continues to lead coast
ports in lumber shipments.
Work is to begin on the Riddle
Tiller-Crater Lake highway.
Hood River is to have a co-opera-
tive spray manufacturing plant.
Walker citizens offer $4,000 bon
us to secure milk condensery.
| Falls City logging road is to be
extended and sawmills will open.
State levy for 1916 will be $3,112,-
600. Was $4,165,OOO for 1915.
The contract has been let for the
Allen Lewis warehouse at Eugene.
The Toledo sawmill, idle since
February, has resumed operations.
Constructor of new Portland and
Oregon City electric is proceeding.
Corvallis will lay 1900 feet of ten
inch sewer with house connections.
Chemawa Indian School will open
bids on $4,000 auditorium Nov. Is.
The State Press Association will be
entertained at Salem, November SIS.
Salem may take up the proposition
of building a municipal dancing hall.
The clearing for a 66S-acre mint
farm has been started near Talbot
The Nebergall Meat Co. packing
plant at Albany is nearing compile
ton.
Coast guard and life saving sta
tions are to have telephone connec-
tions.
F. w. Stratton has erected feed,
gristmill and business block at Fort
Rock.
Assured of state aid, Coos county
proposes to vote $273,00O road
bonds.
Oregon Electric has voluntarily re-
duced rates between Portland and
Eugene.
Broom handles and salmon crates
are manufactured at North Bend on
large scale.
The Vesuvius mine near Bohemia
has disclosed 5000 tons of ore run
ming SIS to $40 gold.
Marion and Polk counties have uni
ted in program for new bridge across
the Willamette at Salem.
VIM. Gilchrist is planning to erect
a $4,000 store building, corner of
State and Liberty streets, Salem.
O.-W. R. & N. is to spend 100000
putting down 90-lb. steen rails from
Portland to Huntington and branches.
Transfers are to be given between
Willamette Valley Southern and
Portland Railway Light C Power Co.
trains.
New lumber rate established by the
S. P. Co. for valley mills is 4 1ac per
100 lower than for Portland, and will
20 far to revive the interior sawmill
industry.
Seven counties reduced school tax
es average of II per cent. Twenty
three counties reduced county and
road levy $376,255.
The State Federation of Women
Clubs adjourned after electing a con-
servative president and voting down
all propositions for new political ex-
periments.