The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-10-12
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

lone to have modern store building.
North Plains to get electric lights.
Stanfield-New creamery to be
started here.
The third sawmill for Bend has be-
gun operations.
Riddle will ship between 40 and SO
carloads of prunes.
Gresham-New garage is largest in
Multnomah county.
North Bend men start new shingle
mill on Larson inlet.
Marshfeld is working for cannery
to handle local products.
Myrtle creek prune crop will ap-'
proximate 100000 pounds.
Eugene State highway planned
from Florence to Klamath Falls.
Portland-Plans under way for
another large steel ship yard here.
Portland-Longshor strike
to be settled on open-shop basis in
Seattle.
Grants Pass-Bids to be considered
for Josephine county's new $4,000
Salem is getting the one-man
street cars, made necessary by jitney
Dufur Dispatch-"Is there anyone
left who wants to be candidate for
some Office or other?"
Douglas county Pomona grange
disgusted with political agitations is
advocating some cheese factories.
Salem,--State sold 25 tons of flax
at Z cents pound to California mills.
Same vas produced with convict la
Dor. State is handling $50 tons.
C. f. Spence, Master of the State
Grange says the Peoples Land and |
Loan measure on the ballot this cleo
ion spells confiscation for the farmer.
H. A. Darnell in Mt. Scott Herald |
N single Item veto: 1T can cost no
,ne a cent and it has the virtue of
possibly saving some thousands of
lollars every session of the legis-
ature so its support can hurt no meri-
orious measure"
The car men of the northern roads
hreaten to strike unless they get
aise in wages. They are peeved be-
ause the Adamson law does not ap-
'ly to them. Well, threaten to tie up
he business of the country; that's
What the other fellows did and they
made their bluff stick.
Oregon Railroad commission aban-
ions valuation of Oregon trunk line
f Hill system, as Interstate Com
nerce Commission is doing same
york. This work of the Federal
overnment is being duplicated in ,
early all states at public expense and :
hows the folly of joint control Of the ,
ailroads of As states and also by the .
alton.
For two carloads of chromium .
res recently shipped from Riddle to ..
illinois Steel Company at Chicago the !
regon Nickle Mining Company re-
pived a check for the sum of 3,068.- .
5, says the Riddle Tribune In the .
hipment were little less than 100
)ns of ore, and it is easy to compute ;
nat the rock was worth above $50
er ton f. o. b. at Chicago. |
Ebert Bede, President Willamette !
alley Press Association says: "The !
ate fair board this year sighted the
JuuIl y utN5pdptlo . anu gave oil lllcll | D
1yertising to the city dailies and ma
azines. That should set well with /;
le country newspapers that have
iven the state fair 50 much free l
)ace and have boosted early and late I
)r its success" 4
Southern Pacific Co. in I
.atement on car shortage says it is /
ue to small demurrage charges col I
,cted in this state. 1t says: Car 4
fficiency can be obtained only by fix (
lg the demurrage rate at a figure ]
lat will make it incentive and a
eneft to the general shipping public !
, release cars with the greatest pos
BILE dispatch, and as the SO rate OBJ
aiming in California has brought a. !
out this to an extent not equaled in =.
ny other territory, we have to re- I
it's adoption in Oregon, I
here because Of the low rates and i
le average agreement five times as
any cars are held in excess of the 4
zee times as in California;