The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-08-19
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS Of
GENERAL INTEREST
More of Pacific Highway to be Paved.
-Canneries Running And 9th
er Business Opening Up.

Hood River plans a county flower
planting compaign.
Baker will put streamer lights on
its principal streets.
Woodburn will vote on $4,000
high school bond issue.
The Pacific Highway is to be paved
from Central Point to Tolo.
A site has been selected at Albany
for $1,500,000 paper mill plant
The Roth Grocery Co., Salem, will
erect a $4,000 brick, two-story.
The manufacture of peppermint
oil is under way in Linn county.
A water bond issue of 100000 was
voted on August II at Halfway.
Yamhill county has oiled fifty
miles of main highway for $500.
Linn County clover seed industry
is yielding six bushels to the acre.
East Portland is getting new bank
and business mems club buildings.
Holland contracts for 100000 box
es of Hood River apples, 1916 crop.
The Columbia River Cannery at
st. Helens is running steadily on veg
etables.
Medford is promised 100000
sugar beet factory in time for the
crop of 1916.
Waldo Copper Co. shipped the first
carload of ore over new railroad to
Grants Pass.
The Willamette Iron and Steel
works of Portland are now employ
ing day and night shifts.
Contract let for grade of Pacific
highway from Tolo to Josephine
county line for s16,659.
Portland is moving for a city man
ager in place of its you-tickle-me-and
Ill-tickle-you commission.
The Rogue River Public Service
Corporation is preparing to resume
work on plant at Gold Hill.
The first mile of hard-surfaced
road built in Coos county within 80
days and $370,000 bond issue pro-
posed.
Supt Campbell, upon returning to
Portland from Coos Bay announces
that trains will be running there by
May 1st.
Those who hold the Office of pub
lie defender, the new Office sought to
be foisted upon the taxpayers for
cities and counties, naturally defend
it publicly.
The forestry service generously al
lows people to build summer homes
in the forest reserves. 1t is doubtful
if any but people of wealth can afford
the luxury.
On six items of fire, police, health
street cleaning, public works, cleo
tions, Portland commission govern
ment cost $195,313 more in 1914
than in 1912. Public works executed
in 1912 $4,300,449; in 1914, $685.
4S0.
The Courtney mill at Marshneld,
which has been idle for some time,
has been reconstructed and made
ready for cutting lumber. At the
present time the owners are negotiat-
ing for a contract for 5000 ready-to-
erect houses.
The contract was awarded to
Clark e. Henery Construction Co. for
the paving of Alder st. at Eugene, for
$1.73 per cubic yard, or $32,915.
Pavement to be "a feet wide, sin
cone base, 2-in. gravel bitulithic
wearing surface.
The Municipal water commission
at Eugene would raise rates for wa
ter used by the city to keep rates
down for consumers. That is the gem
eral result of public ownership, to
make taxpayers meet deficits caused
by supplying consumers below cost.
The politicians are still discussing
what to do with the O. & C. land
grant. They are all very generous
in turning the surplus funds, after
paying the railroad company $3.50
an acre, into the school funds, bene-
fitting the school fund is always a
popular proposition. But it should
be remembered that these same pol
iticians squandered the Oregon school
funds by letting the school lands all
get away from the state for little or
nothing. For the sake of the poor,
the homeless, and the landless, let us
have new deal in disposing of these
lands, one not originating with the
elements that have wasted our school
lands in the past.-Coi. f. Hoffer at
WaldpOrt.
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