The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-05-18
OREGON INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
The Weeks Stories About Enter
prlses, Payrolls, Industries and
Community Development.

Roseburg- plant of 200 tons
capacity starts operation.
Estacada-R. G.. Deming starts
cannery here
-Portland-Alaska Steam.
ship Co. starts line of steamers from
here to Alaska.
Two ships leave Columbia with
/ 100000 feet of lumber for China
and Australia.
Hood River-S45,0OO bonds sold
for new school and addition to high
/ school
! Portland shipyard has contracts
aggregating S4,OOO,OOO and will em-
ploy 1000 men in the near future.
Some newspapers want everything
done as 1t is done in Australia. why
not move TO Australia?
Grants Pass--Work started on
construction of new planning mill.
Word comes from Halsey, Lane
county, Oregon, that there is an op-
oning for a I've merchant TO put In a
general store in fine store building
now vacant, good dentist, a garage.
oad good undertaken. This town
Is 9S miles south of Portland, ore
gon, on the s. +. X. II. in good
farming community and has about
four hundred inhabitants. For IN
formation address Frank Neldon, lock
box 1856. Halsey. Oregon.
h Marshfield- Dollar logging camp
on Bear creek opens with 40 men,
Roseburg rg-Cinnabar properties In
this section are being actively work
ed.
Astoria -- Contracts aggregating
$t61,390.S1 for permanent improve
mont on Commercial. Duane and Ele-
yonth streets with a bitulithic hard
surface pavement have been award
Cd
Sentlmentalism instead OF business
sobstuff and theories instead OF fac
tories and industrial dryout instead
OF individual initiative is killing com
munlt!es.
Portland - Inman-Poulson mill
cutting 100000 feet OF lumber In 10
hours.
Waldport-Crab cannery, employ
ing 25 men earning S5 10 81 day
canning crabs and clans, 10 or 20
girls are also employed earning from
$3.50 To $3.50 per day.
Actual construction work on Teel
irrigation project in Umatilla county
to commence, financed by Canadian
company.
Dandon-Lumber shipments for
April totaled S.S53.iS4 feet
CoQuille-Fourteen cheese factor
les form association In Coos and Cur
ry counties.
Astoria-on opening day OF sal
mon season 1000 boats were at work
Springfield, c. Dim a Son OF
Eugene have taken over Lane county
News OF this city from w. A. Dill,
publisher OF the paper for the past
two years,
The three new ships, contracts 10
build which have been let 10 the big
new Portland ship yard. will all fly
foreign flag, Il is about time the
preparedness talk In congress got
around TO advocating laws under
which our own people would be en-
copraged TO build and register ships
under the American flag.
State press riddling some OF the
new boardE and commissions created
by the legislature and indications are
no more OF these obstacles to indus
try viii be tolerated.
Oresham-Latourelle a Son will
build brick garage here
Ashland-IIotel Oregon remodeled /
at expense OF 100000.
Astoria-County court awards con-
tract to build four wooden bridges on
Columbia river highway, price S6796,
sFWhen a public utility goes under
public ownership, II ceases to be
taxpayer and advertiser or TO contri-
butte In any way to keep up public
II becomes a play
lhtSg for politicians and generally
~ on the taxpayer.
Wei waeific Telephone and Tele-
graph company ,akes over local
phone system.
Observation-Disclosures for S362,-
900 road bond issue being held I'm
Coos county.
Toledo-Western Union estab-
fishes direct telegraph line between
Portland and Newport.
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