The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-07-20
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
Of GENERAL INTEREST

mere Ill HVe NeehS.
Gresham-Three blocks on Main
st. will be paved at once.
Forest Grove to have new $4,000
Christian Science Church.
Bandon-Salmon cannery will ope
rate under new management.
The Dalles-Contract let fol
$2,4S6 Madison St. subway.
Albany Furniture Co. factory viii
be re-opened in about six weeks.
Grants Pass--Rich Tungsten strike
reported on Eight Dollar Mountain
North Bend-Payrolls have in
creased 100 per cent since January ]
Grants Pass-Utan-Idaho Sugar
Co. raises price for sugar beets here
Fossil-Bonds sold and work will
commence soon on manual training
building.
Astoria is putting up strong
fight, for a submarine base at port o
Columbia.
Corvallis-Large crew at work Of
electrification of West Side s. Z. line
into here.
Newberg-New cannery opened ol
4th Of July. Also have new logan
berry juice plant.
Gardiner-Contract for buildin:
jetty at mouth of Umpqua let to Port
land firm for $151,000.
Oregon gold output increases
100000 first six months of 1911
over same period in 1915.
Jackson County-25 men viii
work on 1000 yard rock crushini
contract for state highway.
Dillard-Timber interests consi
dering construction of logging roa'
from here to tidewater on Coos Bay
Quick nickleplating liquit
for auto lamps, etc. invented and be
ng manufactured here by w. R. Clin
Co.
ale-Warmsprings District vii
build large dam. Work started
again on Sunset Oil we'll north o
here.
Standard Oil Co. erect
ing warehouse, oil tanks, etc. here t
serve as distributing plant for thi
section.
Allies have, in last year. pai
$500, 600 for Oregon and Washing
ton spruce for manufacture of wa
aeroplanes.
Eugene-Fairmou Brick < Til
Co. get brick contract for Rosebur
federal building and also for neN
Roseburg high school.
Coos Bay Times-"Close to thre
miles of track will be built by tn
Beuhner Lumber Company on Mort
Coos Bay river to tap their timbe
holdings in that section"
Reports received from nearly a
sections of Douglas County indicat
that this years crop of prunes wi
far surpass previous years.
Baker-Constructi Of John Da
Highway, which will connect the CO
lumbia River Highway with Lincol
Highway, will be started soon.
The Dalles-Wasco County cherr
stems are being shipped to Euror
to make poisonous gas that is bein
used by opposing armies in France.
Marshfield-C. A. Smith Lumbe
Co. will build vessel in local shi
yard with 1,250,000 capacity, desig1
ed to handle lumber by package sy.
TEN to be completed in 5 months.
Salem-Figures complied by Fol
est Service show that the furnitur
manufacturers of Oregon use annu
ally nearly seven million feet of lun
ber, more than half Of which /
Douglas fir and maple.
Albany-The new plant of the a.
bany Fruit Juice Co. for the manufaC
ture of a new drink from Loganberr
juice, has begun operations. TIL
plant is modern in every respect an
operated throughout by electricit
furnished by the Oregon Power &C
Hillsboro Independent-"From til
number of initiated and referred law
already on the list, it looks as thoug
the paper shortage is to be futhe
Increased when it comes to printin
the big ballot, that will be necessar
at the November election.
Lake County-"It Is estimated tha
the two creameries at Fremont ar
turning out over three tons of but
ter per month, requiring about tel
tons of cream. What has become o
the fellows who said cream coult
not be produced in this locality? II
addition to this a home cheese fac
tory is in operation here and one a
Fort Rock. ."-(Fort Rock Times.)
Though the railroads of the United
States afford the public the cheapes
freight rates and pay railroad EN-
ployes the highest wages, the return
to the 100000 investors in railwa,
securities is less than if their capi
tai were invested in ordinary farm
mortgages.