The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-09-28
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

tacturlng plant.
klamath Falls-$69,OOO real es-
tate deal closed here
Baker-Port Commission plans to
build 100000 dredge.
Cottage Grove-Local manufacture
er sells Is silos this season.
Medford business men working to
raise money for box factory.
Albany merchants want combine
of two competing phone systems.
Albany prune packing plant to
open for the biggest run in three
years.
Eugene-Car of Lane Co. vetch
seed sold in California at ~ cents
pound.
Astoria-Bank deposits in four To-
cal banks Sept. II totaled $685.
569.S3.
Cottage Grove-Standard Oil Co.
lets contracts for branch station
buildings here.
Eugene cannery held to be model of
kind in state according to market edi-
tor of Portland.
Milton--Cannery at Freewater
leased by Twin Falls Vinegar Co. and
will be operated.
Guy Hughes, a former editor of
Winona, Wash, News, buys Pine Val
ley Herald at Halfway.
Grants Pass-66, 6,0OO,OO0 feet of
timber sold in Siskiyou forest re-
serve cutting to begin in 1918.
Bend-Pacific Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. to spend $4,000 here this
fall extending and improving system.
of ore daily, with payroll of $500
monthly, to be installed at once on
cinnebar properties east of here.
Sutherlin-Mill to handle $50 tons
Sutherlin-Actual construction
work under way on Sutherlin, Coos
Bay & Eastern R. R. and expect to
finish mile grade to upper sawmill
in two months
Salem-Pleased with the fax fibre
purchased last year from the peniten-
tiary flax plant, the California Cotton
Mills Co. has offered to contract for
the entire unheckled crops this year
on basis of 22 cents pound.
Bend-After arranging to shut
down for the winter, Bend Brick &
Lbr. Co. abandons plan and will put
on more men to make up reserve
store stock. Action due to inquiries
for brick for new buildings to be erec-
ted here this fall and winter.
The country editor is resourceful,
as he must be. The editor of the
Bandon Western World is a good ex-
ample. AS his paper was off the
press when he received news of the
disaster to the Congress, he ran his
paper through again printing bulle-
tin in red ink on the margin thus CIV
ing his readers the news.
W. R. Scott, Cen. Mgr. of the S. P.
Co. gives the following causes for
present car shortage: Unprecedent-
ed eastern manufacturing activity;
deficiency ship tonnage on both coasts;
closing of Panama canal; freight con-
gestion in eastern terminals; car
builders failure to fulfil contracts; He
adds there is a similar car shortage
in California but people there use it
as an argument to show prosperity.
In the interest of the conservation
of our fuel supplies it is most i'm
portant that congress pass leglsla-
ton at the next session under which
the enormous water powers in this
state can be freely developed with
private capital. This can be done
and at the same time put proper res
trictions on their acquisition without
Especial Taxing" the industry to
death.
The demand of railroad employees
in train service for an increase in wa
ges approximating s100,000,OO0 a
year, and their refusal to submit to
arbitration and the taking of a strike
vote, is not political issue. 1t
raises question which involves the
safety snl security Of government it.
self and should be delt with from
that stannroint.