The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-06-29
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
Of GENERAL INTERESI |

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Newberg canheyy recently burned
being rebuilt.
Roseburg-Federal building Will
be started July /.
Ontario-New track being laid be-
tween this city and Vale.
Portland-Building permits past
week aggregate $4,000
Roseburg-Review says that city
is humming with industry.
Garden Home-Hunt clubhouse to
be rebuilt at cost of $4,000.
Hermiston-Newport Land C. gets
$4,000 ditch contract.
Albany will remodel old Central
School building for city hall.
Astoria Machine Co. to be enlarged
with $4,000 new equipment.
Plan for state-guaranteed bonds
for irrigation projects abandoned.
Oregon City-Company formed
to develop silica deposit near here.
Astoria putting up fight for sub
marine base at port of Columbia.
Eugene-$4,+00 a year las been
cut from cost of Eugene schools.
Schooner Westerner
loading half million feet cedar ties.
Lakeview-$7O,O0O buildings lost
by fire to rebuild of brick and stone.
Sunday law will stop 10000 people
working for wages one day in seven.
Medford-Box factory of 5000 to
5000 capacity going, up on P. & &.
Ry.
La Grande-Wholesal grocery
will erect branch building
here.
Astoria-McEach shipbuilding
will double capacity OF
plant.
Burns-Railroad completed to
Crane Creek gap and will soon enter
valley.
Baker-Five stamp mine for
Barry mine, Virtue district ready to
operate.
Albany-Discovery Of zinc in
Black Eagle group of mines is an
lounced.
Baker-Brewery and ice plant
start after long idleness, on tempe
'ance drinks.
Portland, Pendleton and Ashland
will ask voters to authorize state
normal schools.
Smithfeld, Polk County-Farmers
Union Warehouse to hold $4,000 bu-
'hels of grain going up.
North Powder-Force of men
mine IS miles north and
shipping ore to Sumner, Wash.
Oregon City politicians have not
enough to keep them busy and want
% put in an electric light and power
slant.
Astoria-Last year, for engineers
md assistants, the citizens of Astor
a spent $1,000 a month. What
rave they got to show for it?
Medford-July 10 voters will pass
IN 100000 bond for S. S. Bulls OF
Southern Oregon Traction Co. to
build rail road to Blue Ledge mines
Salem-Two Oregon wage laws are
icing reargued in the Supreme Court
1t Washington, D. c. The laws give
IN industrial commission of the state
)ower for the fixing of minimum
'ates.
Prof. Gilbert, authority on Econ
MICS, finds that the aggregate wealth
# Oregon is $1,944,354,43 about 50
,er cent of which is real estate. The
est is public utilities, live stock and
in the order named.
Why fight industries? Why not
Encourage all business that employ
IS labor from a bootblack stand to
n ocean steamship line. Why en-
10y politicians to get up laws to tax
nd regulate industries which is their
My capital and stock in trade?
Sutherlin Everfresh Fruit Evapor-
ting plant to resume. The new
uildings recently constructed and
arge amount of machinery installed
epresents an expenditure of approx
lately $4,000, and gives to Suther-
in one of the largest fruit packing
oncers on the coast.
As result of conference by traffic
of the rail roads, william
tie Valley Lumber manufactures will
ave an entrance to the markets of
and the Dakotas through a
of rates to be applied by
he Southern Pacific jointly with the
treat Northern and Northern Pacific.
Medley as an industry utilities and
pay about twenty per cent
( the taxes, employ about Is per cent
nd buy 25 per cent of the lumber
ut. Why should not all the people
e interested in their prosperity?
Silver Lake Leader SlOgan-"To
elp develop Central Oregon and to
i've all the aid it can to help out
he whole state"
Oregonian on Land Grant bill:-