The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-12-23
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

Nallowa now has two creameries
Kelly Bros have installed a roller
feed mill at Hood River.
A carload Of clover seed was shin.
ped from Albany to Chicago, value
$13,000.-
winchester Bay, the new town neal
Gardner, is petitioning for a post
Office and wants school.
The town of Rickreall has peti-
toned the Oregon Power Co. for cleo
trio service.
A new style spark plug is to be
manufactured in Grants Pass.
Florence has let contract for wa
ter tower
The city of Eugene has purchased
the Oregon Power Cos. plant in that
city for $150,OO0.
The new school at Mulino has been
dedicated.
200 boxes of prunes have been
shipped east from Eugene as Christ
mas gifts.
Hard tired trucks and jitney busses
ordered off certain Lane county high
ways until May l..
Grants Pass machine shop has been
reopened.
Expenditures of $1,70O,OO0 by the
U. P and O-W. r. & N. Co. between
Blalock and Coyote, Oregon, an
nounced by J. P. O'Brien, vice Pres.
The initiation of another single
tax measure in Oregon is meeting
with poor success.
A we'll will be started two miles
north of Stanfield to get water to
irrigate 5000 acres of land.
Work trains are crossing Coos Bay
on the new Willamette Pacific bridge.
Merlin has shipped carloads, and
Round Prairie carload of Christmas
trees to Los Angeles. About 400
trees to car.
Oregon Power Co. has spent s4O,-
600 on improvements in North Bend
the past year.
100000 worth of -four is to be
shipped from Portland to warning ma
tions before January /.
W. H. Blair has shipped over 3O,-
900 Christmas trees from Candy to
California.
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
lines in Oregon and Washington
would reach distance of 341,255
miles.
The proposed sawmill at Reedsport
will be one of the largest in Oregon.
Clackamas county taxpayers ask
county court for 2 mills for roads.
]. L. Stockton. president Oregon
Retail Dealers Assn. says legislation
should be passed exempting new fac
tories from taxation for a stated num-
Der of years.
Two more people killed near Sa-
lem walking on railroad track. In the
interest Of public safety, it should be
unlawful to walk on railroad tracks.
One-half cent on dollar is increase
in women's wages under minimum
wage law
Farmers Union of Umatilla coun-
ty to build large meat packing
plant.
Irrigation districts at Redmond are
being formed.
Minimum wage law gives Portland
women workers eight mills more on
the dollar.
Oregon-Utah Beet Sugar Co. has
36521a acres OF land contracted in
Jackson county.
The Pompadour Lithia Springs
near Ashland have been incorporated
at 100000.
The Willamette Valley Southern
IS likely to build to Silverton in the
spring.
CASTOR has let contract for $1,000
water system.
O-W. r. & N. Co. will soon have
payroll of $4,000 at Pilot
Rock Junction.
Old Armitage place near Eugene
will be first electric farm under Ore
son Power Company's plan to fur
lish farms electricity.
Announcement has been made that
Falls City Lumber Co. will probably
open In spring with full crew of 200
men.
North Bend business men are con-
'idering increase of payrolls.
Farmers of Umatilla county want
Great Southern R. r. extended to Co.
I, m hio rfuor