The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-12-30
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

VI OINIIIIlI ItIILIILUI
Newport defeated an occupation
tax.
1t is planned to oil roads around
Echo.
Portland's tax is $25.40 on the
$1,000.
Sutherlin is getting new two-story
brick building.
1900 Douglas county turkeys bring
owners $4,000.
The busy Sellwood Bee had fine
Christmas paper.
The Standard Oil Co. will build
tank at Stanfeld.
The Sutherlin Sun had a pretty 90
page Christmas paper
Pendleton will pave two more
streets with bitulithic.
| A county road is to be built from
Newport to Yaquina.
| Eugene sent dried loganberries
east for Christmas gifts.
Pendleton is building a country
club for 100 members.
The taxpayers league in Washing
ton county made $4,000 cut.
l.. c. Reynolds will build $4,000
shingle mill on lower Siuslaw.
Columbia River e. Nehalem Log
ging R. R. is running to capacity.
Union Pacific System is TO spend
81, 100000 on Oregon lines in 1916.
A cargo of ties is soon to be sent
from lower Columbia to Great Brit
ain.
| O-W. R. & N. will spend $780,
900 lining st. Johns tunnel with con-
crete.
The tax commission announces
that taxes for 1916 will be about
15% lower.
The Signal-Review plant at New
port has been sold to H. G. Guild
owner of the Toledo Sentinel.
Oregon corn acreage nearly doub-
led during year, largely due to ed,
ucational campaign of OW. r. & N
The Roach Lumber Co., of Musca.
tine, Idaho, raises 100000 to build
first section of logging road at Suth-
erlin.
Citizens of North Bend voted tC
amend charter extending franchise
of Southern Pacific Co., from 35 tc
so years.
Steam and electric lines in Oregon
in 1915 paid $4,000, 0,6S3.27 taxes and
operating revenues dropped off ST.
l177,430.
Work will be started at once on
a new road down the Umatilla river
from Pendleton to Pilot Rock June.
tion; to cost 100000.
= The Portland Chamber of Com.
merce is making fight to have all
Douglas fir and Oregon stone used on
new million dollar postofiioe.
Roseburg- Kendall, Pittsburg cap
italist, returns in January to take
up work on railroad and sawmill
Some right of way has been secured
st. Helens industries in full blast
employ 80 men in the shipyards, SO
in creosoting plant, $50 in two saw
mills, and so in two road metal
plants.
Portland's new Franklin high
school will cost 100000, have seven
buildings and 1000 students. 1t will
have a complete agricultural college
course.
Reedsport gives lumber company
rs acres of land for factory site and
water frontage on condition it will
build mill of 125,000 feet capacity
and operate for Is years.
Ex-president Taft advocates the
abolition of the Office Of postmaster
leaving the deputies in charge as
they are now, the post master being
merely fgurehead in most instances
Saving of $4,O00,O0O a year.
The demand of 100000 railroad
employees for ten-hour pay for an
eight-hour day, and pay-anda-halt
for overtime is another cloud on the
business horizon. 1t will prevent in.
vestments in railroads, and with bus
ness men demanding reduced freight
rates, will force the railroads ulti
mately into public ownership.
Under post Office department rul-
ngs you can send pounds of printed
matter from here to Philomath fol-
"a cents, but you can send pounds
for cents. If private corporation
did business that way it would be
fined s2,OOO,000 for discrimination
or something. and all the officials
sent to the penitentiary Gazette
Times, Corvallis.