The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-06-15
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
OF GENERAL INTEREST

roundhouse here.
Seaside-Contrac let for new
school at $23,795.
Scio- Farmers Union establishes
new cheese factory.
st. Helens gets new business
block on Columbia st.
Grants Pass sugar factory sold t,
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co.
| Gresham to have gas supply from
Portland Gas & Coke Co.
| Portland Gas S Coke Co. granted
franchise to Sandy River.
Enterprise bank building to be re
modelled at cost of $4,000.
Stayton--A. D. Gardner will erect
a portable sawmill near city.
Astoria-S, P. & S. railroads puts
dining cars on its trains here.
Salem to get 100000 bread fctory
with $4,000 monthly payroll.
Baker-Fok sawmill ON Beech
creek has been put in operation.
St. Johns-Cooperage plant will
build two drykilns and bunkers.
Pendleton-Cityc council will deed
land for site for large mausoleum.
! Shevlin- Hixon Co. add large
box factory to sawmill plant here.
Roseburg-County court let's con-
tract for bridge at Happy Valley.
Eugene-Number of rural districts
will erect large school buildings.
Albany-Work of reconstructing
Union furniture factory has begun.
/ Oregon City-Hawley pulp and
paper mills add $4,000 warehouse.
Donald-H. L. Hodges establishes
weekly newspaper and job office here.
Marshtield votes $4,000 bonds for
one small additional school building.
T. Pendleton-Northern Pacific plan
ming to build into Holdman section.
Ophir, Curry county mining dis
trict, to undergo large development.
Astoria-Curray and Towage Co.
will erect large docks and buildings.
Brookings--Lumber Company en-
plOys 200 men and new hotel going
up.
Donald cooperative cheese factory
handling about 5000 lbs. milk per
day.
North Bend-City and county or
der mile and half Warrenite paw
ing.
Vale--Warm Springs irrigation
project will put water ON $4,000
acres,
Medford carried 100000 bond
issue for railroad to Blue ledge
mines.
Oregon City-Hawley Paper mills
go on three shift plan, hours each,
and employ go additional men.
Increased demand for Myrtlewood
products makes necessary sawmill at
Bridge on Myrtle creek, Coos county.
Brookings-$135,0 900 twin screw
lumber carrier ordered built for saw
mills here within eight months at SIS. !
Helens shipyards.
Workmen onUnion Pacific tunnell
IN East Portland who went on strike |
Tor so cts. a day under lead of |. ". |
W. agitators ask to return.
Salem-Under more liberal policies
If encouraging capital corporation i'll
ng year will increase from $1S1,000 |
n 1915 to 100000 for 1915.
AS showing public sentiment Geo.
J. Brownell in the Clackamas county
lominee of all three parties for repre-
entative on tax reduction platform.
Based on the last two years for
.ach fatality to employees in train ac-
ident including all instances where
lie accident was oceasioned by mis-
axe and carelessness of employees, a
rain was run more than ten million
niles.
Another fool law has just been
A Coos county farmer
vas arrested and fined for doctoring
lis own horse. That is one of the
ool laws which with others makes
he state ridiculous. s.-North Bend
Iarbor.
Salem-During the past week Kay
md Olcott Of the State Board of Con-
rol demanded report from Flax Ex-
,ert, Cady. The committee on draft
ng an initiative bill for tax limitation |
las been in session several days to |
inish the measure.
mo outside arbitration" is the |
slogan of the railroad employees, and !
answer to suggestion that the qucs-
ions at issue in the threatened strike
De given over to the decision Of Fede- |
raj arbitratOrs in case the railroad
cannot grant 10 hours pay for an 5
hour bastic work day.