The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-08-24
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
Of GENERAL INTEREST

Astoria has large new hotel near
ly completed.
Brewster valley, Coos county to
have creamery.
Glenada shingle mill mas added
large boiler plant.
Wallowa-Steel bridge building
across Bear creek.
Vale-Work going forwarded on
nitrate plant here.
Coquille river open-shop stevedore
company organized
Ontario Episcopalians purchase site
and will erect church.
| Portland = Willamette shipyard
adds so by 5OOboiler shop.
Astoria-Six modern dwellings be-
ing rushed to completion.
Eugene-Contract for 100000 ties
for Hill lines placed here.
| North Bend-Beuhner Lumber Co.
erecting fine Office building.
Florence-Monroe, Wash, Shing-
lemill Co. build plant here.
Pendleton gets new garage and
motorists rest room 100 by 1876.
Waters creek station shipping ore
and lumber out of Curry County.
Pendleton-$75,O0O health resort
hotel to go up at Lehman springs.
North Bend S. P. Co. will build
comfortable home for section men.
Baker-Big developments under
way in Greenhorn mining district.
Junction-Lane county will spend
$500 on a miles Pacific Highway.
Gardiner-Heirs of late w. F. Je-
weat present city with $4,000
Enterprise-High power trans
mission line to be built to Joseph
Lake.
Klamath Falls-Strahorn railroad
saves five miles of survey through
dairy.
Springfield-S. P. Co. putting so
carloads gravel ballast daily ON Coos
Bay line.
Florence--$6O00 electric fog and
signal station to be built at mouth
of Coquille.
Pendleton wants to get state nor
NAL school and in turn will help re-
vive the Ashland Normal.
Nine shipbuilding plants are either
in operation or building on the Co.
lumbia and Willamette rivers.
Pendleton Tribune: ne:--Legislativ
candidates must walk circumspecely
this year. There are brickbats fly
ing.
Supreme Court upholds Chambers
Power Co. of Eugene in its fight for
the right to widen its ditch to so
feet.
Salem-The land grant counties
wish to unite to collect taxes from
the o. & c. land grant lands. Over
two millions dollars are due but held
up by the act of Congress.
East St. Johns-Contract for con-
structing another sea-going vessel
has been closed by the Standifier-
Clarkson company. The boat will
be built at the Monarch mill.
Coquille Sentinel, N. A. Young,
editor, very progressive for the Social
Uplift, says the Peoples Land and
Loan measure is bad and would "des-
troy the value of all investments"
1t does not occur to newspapers
urging on strikes that capital can 60
on a strike the same as labor and
when it does it just simply quits and
suffering and hardship await results.
Drewsey Sun exhausts itself fight
ing big Biz" Yet the Oregon
Short Line, Union Pacific and R. E.
Strahorn, all of Big Biz, are the only
1nes doing anything for the develop
ment of Malhuer, Harvey and Cen
raj Oregon counties.
Coquille Valley ntinel:-Speak-
ng of the "fea bite" of $18,687 Ore
,on is to get out of the national
.oads fund the first year, the Wood
burn Independent says that when
Portland and Salem, the two biggest
hogs in the state get through there
will be nothing left"
Albany Democrat-The celebration
of the opening of the railroad to
Marshfield is one deserving the at
tention it is receiving. 1t is a state
affair, a part of great progress to
give the state a network of railroads
reaching all sections. Whatever
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