The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-10-28
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS Of
GENERAL INTEREST

Oregon City has new bank, $780,
600 capital.
Veneta will have new sawmill in
| the near future.
A milk condenser plant is talked of
for Cottage Grove.
The Springfield city tax will be less
for the coming year.
Allen & Lewis of Portland expect
to build warehouse in Eugene.
1t is rumored that the Smith Pulp
Mill at Marshfield will run soon.
Finnish Brotherhood society of AS
toria will erect $4,000 garage.
Milwaukee will soon advertise for
bids for extension of water system.
Reports say new planning mill is
to be built at Roseburg in the winter
All wheat warehouses; in st. Johns
are filled to Overfowing; the first
time in years.
Fill for O-W. R. & N. terminal fin
ished and track laying will begin soon
at The Dalles.
The contract has been awarded for
the construction of municipal pipe
line at Halfway.
The largest carload of apples ever
sent from Hood River has just been
shipped to Petrograd.
Dredging operations in Sumpter
Valley for mining requiring capital
of $4,000 is being planned.
1t is reported through train SER
vice from Coos Bay to Eugene will
be given the public May l, 1916.
The North Pole and Columbia
mines near Sumpter are now work.
ing steadily with good prospects.
The Simpson Lumber Co., of North
Bend made the largest cut on record
in September for a North Bend MILL
The Willamette Valley Electric
from Mt. Angel to Portland starts
first train service Sunday, october II.
Jitney fares have been reduced to
six for quarter. The jitney might
next provide free life insurance pol
icies to their patrons.
Oregon, California and Eastern
filed articles of Incorporation and
plans to construct 400 miles of rail
road in Eastern Oregon.
The North Pole mine in the Sump-
ter district has 40 men taking out
and shipping large quantities of high
grade ore.
After a long controversy the AS
toria council voted unanimously to
grant Pacific Power & Light Co. a
street car franchise on Franklin Ave.
The Corvallis Gazette-Times has
one of the best editorial pages of any
paper in the state-wit and wisdom
combined.
Oregon City passed stringent jit-
ney ordinance requiring $4,000 bond,
$50 quarterly license and continuous
service between a. m. and 10 p. m.
Reports say that the Hill interests
will spend large sums constructing
additional wharves and enlarging
terminals at Flavel.
The S. P. Co. and the city of Cor
wallis have agreed upon terms for a
satisfactory franchise for the cleo
trio system of the S. P. Co. in that
city.
The Oswego Dallas & Roseburg
railroad, subsidiary of the Port
land Cement Co. has begun opera
tions preparatory to the opening of
the Oswego plant of the cement con-
cern.
1t is announced that construction
will begin at once on standard guage
railroad from Carnes Station 6 miles
south of Roseburg to the big quarries
of the Portland Cement Co. on Rob-
erts Creek.
The reduced round trip rate of 25c
granted by the Portland Railway,
Light & Power Co. between Portland |
and Vancouver is making heavy in
roads on the jitney traffic especially
as the street cars are more comfort
able in cold weather.
In regard to kelp beds off the Ore
gon coast on large scale for the
purpose of obtaining potash, New
York capitalists inquire of Secretary
of State Olcott if it would be possible
for the state to contract with the
corporation on basis that would |
permit a large investment.