The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-10-05
INDUSIkIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Lexington-Evans Bros. sell 1880
acre wheat ranch for $4,000.


Osborn.
NATURALIZATION acre Deerhorn
ranch on McKensie river sells for
S55,O00
Gresham-Several gold nuggets re-
ported found in P R. l.. & P. Co.
gravel pit.
There are now 81 vessels under
construction in shipyards along the
Columbia
North Bend-Keel for largest boat
ever built on Coos Bay has been laid,
boat to be 266 it. over all.
Astoria-Youngs bay shipyard now
have Z large ocean going vessels on
ways employing 400 skilled workmen.
Observation-Disclosures that Smith
Powers Co. is figuring on developing
a coal mine on their Eden Ridge hold
ings.
Rosburg-Installat of cor ren-
trating plant on gravel creek mine
will be completed and in operation
in so days.
Progress that takes business out of
the hands of the people and puts it
in the hands of the government is
progress backwards.
Sutherlin-A so ton mill to be
built for handling ore of old Bonan-
"a quick silver mine which is being
reopened 9 miles eact of here.
Cottage Grove-Chicago buyer says
Oregon broccoli comes on market af-
ter all other supplies are exhausted
and therefore has markets Of world
to itself.
A report from Utah states that Og-
den capitalists are adding extensive
to Sumpter Valley R.
R. in Oregon inclusing several new
steel bridges
Astoria-Over 900 men are now
employed directly and Indirectly upon
street improvement work here. The
viaduct systems will consume over
four million feet of lumber.
Prineville voting 100000 bonds
to aid in financing construction Of
railroad from main line of Oregon
truck to that city by vote Of 35S to
one, is greatest advertisement it can
awe the world that it wants capitol
to come there an invest and it is
willing to back it's invi' alton with an
investment of it's own.
The manager of the state sys-
tenn spends some time among his eli
ents in the country towns and listens
to what is said by the saGes who sit
round on the boxes in country stores.
He gets expressions there to the eff
feet that the people have gone too far
in warning on corporations and the
time has come to let up hammering
the fellows who are doing things.
Salem-In order that the Utah
Idaho Sugar Co. of Grants Pass may
compete on a parity with California
refineries in shipment of it's products,
the Southern Pacific Company has ap-
piled to the Oregon Public Service
Commission for authority to estab-
lish same freight rates from Grants
Pass to points in Oergon as are now
in effect from San Francisco to same
points.
The Sheridan Sun, one of the best
papers that comes to our exchange
table, is meeting the high cost Of
print paper by dispensing with ready
prints. Economy is not the only
thing gained, however, for additional
self-respect goes with the absence of
the patent medice and other adver-
tising which the ready print houses
are apparently unable to do business
without Monmouth Herald.)
Marshfield--North Bend Lumber
Company will install an additional 40
horsepower motor served by the Ore
gon Power Company. Two other
mills have started running full time,
employing about 125 men. A local
shipyard has received contracts for
construction of three additional lum-
ber schooners) and will install 40
horsepower additional in motors serv-
ed by the Power Company. One hun
dred-twenty-five horse power more
will be added within short time.