The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-09-21
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

here
Banks-Prospects for new lum.
Der mill here.
Bend Payrolls here now amount to
100000 a month.
North Bend-Bay Park mill starts
with crew of 60 men.
Astoria-New school house dedi-
Gated in Battle Creek district.
Pendleton will make a hard fight
to locate a normal school there.
Portland-Union Meat Co. to
erect new sheep pens at cost of $685.
1000.
Sutherlin-It is announced that
actual grading on new railroad here
will start at once.
Marshfield-Firstc car of Coos Bay
coal shipped over the new railroad
went to Harrisburg.
According to recent statistics Ore
gon Brass Works do $4,000 busi-
ness with 32 employees.
Bandon-It is claimed that there
are now more loggers at work in Coos
County than ever before.
Oregon City-Frank Busch will
start construction at once of modern
river dock and warehouse.
Astoria-A. Wickerstrom gets con-
tract for "a life boats to be used on
ships now building here
Albany-Linn-Be Growers AS
lsociation cannery at Brownsville has
more orders than it can fill.
Harrisburg-3923 acre farm 8
miles from here sold for $4,000,
$4,000 in trade, balance cash.
Newport-Portland & West Coast
r. R. Co. announced that they in
tend to begin field operations soon.
Harrisburg-9 cars of cattle, of
hay and of vetch seed left here in
one day for different parts of the
country.
Marshfield-$5 100000 Coos Bay
Pulp mill plant has been dismantled
and machinery sold to British Colum-
bia firm.
d-President Sproule Of
the S. P. system says now that the
railroad is into Coos Bay they intend
to develop the Beaver Hill coal mine
to the fullest possibilities.
Multnomah county's taxable valua-
ton for 1916 will show decrease OF
$4,000, 900 from 1915 and $38.000,-
900 from 1913 being just slightly
above what it was In 1910.
Pending satisfactory legislation to
be passed Congress allowing private
capital to develop waterpowers in the
west, a 100000 electric project
on the Columbia river is being held
up.
North Bend-Porter mill shuts
down to make extensive improve
ments including big steel refuse burn
er, the addition of one-third story, a
large machine shop, band saws, plan
er, etc.
Bend-M. ]. Scanlon of the Brooks
Scanlon Lumber Co. here predicts
that the five years following the
close OF the European war will be the
best the Oregon lumber business has
ever known.
Many candidates running for Office
have no hesitancy in saying that the
state has multiplicity of laws, the
effect of which is to complicate busi-
ness to the point of inefficiency and
that mounting cost of government in
dicates the need of calling halt.
Newspaper reports say Great Bri-
tain is facing general railroad strike
or a raise in the employees wages or
a. decrease in food price. 1t seems
that government ownership OF rail-
road lines has no effect in prevent
ing strikes.
Prineville voting 100000 bonds
to aid in financing construction OF
railroad from main line Of Oregon
trunk to that city by a vote of 35S to
one, is the greatest advertisement 1t
can give the world that it wants capt.
tal to come there and invest and that
it is willing to back its invitation
with an investment Of its own.
ICE FOR SALE-Stores supplied
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