The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-08-10
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

Eugene gets a $4,000 brick stor,
building.
Eugene spends sSS45 improving
city hall.
Roseburg-Riverside school house
contract let.
Contract let for Latham and Dill
ard highway,
Junction cannery will add prune
drying plant.
Astoria-Bids opened for $25,O0O
NJ. E. Church.
Forest Grove to have new brick
business block.
Astoria letting contracts for six
bitulituc streets.
Marshfeld to pave ten blocks OF
Anderson street.
La Grande business men will in
IStall gas pldut.
NJ. Beachman sawmill working
with night shift.
Wheeler-Big cooperative car-
merry in operation.
Primary election in Yamhill county
cost 72 cents per vote.
Portland-Contract let for con-
crete stock yards building.
Tillamook paving mile of street
and building large warehouse.
Cottage Groves. P. Co back of
new railroad to Lorane valley.
Roseburg-New bridge to go "a
cross Umpqua at Happy Valley.
Condon-People of Ritter country
to have bridge across North Fork.
Dallas and Falls City to unite TO
operate large rock crushing plant.
Florence-Putting in new water
works. New shingle mill running.
Pacific Telephone Co. to build new
lines from Roseburg to Myrtle Point.
Albina machine works to get $685.
900 for repairing Japanese steamers.
Albany furniture factory starts
Sept. | with first years output sold.
Portland-$6O,OOO to be spent on
Pacific Telephone Co. line reConstruc-
ton.
Lincoln-Henry. Neiger makes 400
lb. swiss cheese per month from 80
COWS.
Forest Grove Ca:nation Touring
mills near this city, long idle are to
resume.
Eugene carloads of cattle ship
ped to California sugar beet feeding
stations.
Lebanon-Fine new bridge built
here by Pacific Iron Works accepted
by county.
Bend-After IA years talk, mach
merry is actually going into the po-
ash lakes.
Public Service corporation assessed |
1t one-ffth total valuation of Clacka- !
mas county.
Four grain elevators, capacity 20,-
100 to 100000 bushels being built in
Nasco county.
Salem-Draining 5000 acres wat
French Prairie land may be
more than talk.
Six western state railroad commits
ions ask railroad trainmen's unions
o arbitrate strike.
Oregon hotair and eXhorter indus
ry overdone and hardwork and real
reduction neglected.
arshfield-Coos Bay to have an
pen shop stevedoring company back
d by the lumber mills.
Corvallis-Prof. Shelton and Col
ege crew building macadam road
nd laying cement sidewalks.
Marshfield--Ed. and VIM. Forest,
f North Bend, installing shingle mill
n branch of Larson inlet, to operate
.ug. 81.
Marshfield--Kr & Banks ship
ard which is operated electrically
18th power furnished by the Oregon
over Co. has secured contracts for
uilding five large boats.
The itinerant peddler destroys the
lerchants business just as the Jitnef
estroys a wel[-organized traction sys-
I'm. Neither pay taxes and both kill
,gitimate business and hurt the COM
lunity. I
Railroads and Public Service cor
orations have paid 13 per cent Of
II the taxes on a valuation of $122,- ,
100000. The Peoples Land and
oan Single Tax bill omits this pro- .
erty from the rolls. ..
Declaring that general railroad
,rike would result in hardship and
eneral suffering to the general pub
c, the Railroad Commission Of Ne
ada have passed resolution urging :
9th sides to arbitrate.
The great railroad strike is pend. ,,
lg. The public is opposed to indus ;