The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-09-14
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

EuS6ne-Csburne hotel to buil(
addition to dining room.
st. Relens-Shipyard here add.
sixth set Of ways 10 plant.
Boardman-New town in eastern
Oregon opened its first school.
Grants Pass-Exteusive repairs
made en- hign school building.
North jetty at sipslaw completed
and work starts on South tetty
Baker Oregon Lumber Co. will
rebuild at once mill destroyed by fire
Marshaeld,-s. P. Co. awards con-
tract for 10 dopots on TIE New lines.
RoseburS-County. court awards
contract for bridging Elk Greek al
I$2260.
Portland-Iapanese Shin hippo Ma
ru sails for Chilli with 100000 it.
lumber cargo.
stanfield-S Standard Oil Co.'S new
distributing plant here will soon be
ready for operation.
Albany-Linn County has two busy
growing cheese factories, one in this
city and one at Crabtrce.
Roseburg-County court appro-
PIRATES S250O to complete road from
Winchester Bay to Reedsport.
Acknowledgements elevator and
wheat cleaning plant to be erected by
farmers union al cost of $4,000
Grants Pass-Sugar beet specia-
list to Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. will ad-
dress farmers here Sept. 19 to 81.
Marshfield--The Gray Logging
camp on South Coos River will be in
operation soon, employing 30 men.
Crane. B. Gallagher and Geo.
4. Crater have started publication
of the Crane-American a new weekly.
st. Johns-Work on the ways and
shops of the new shipyard for the
Columbia Engineering Works at
Linnton has started
North Bend-The Port Angeles"
will be launched here Sept. 16 to
make way for another ship on the
ways in local ship yard.
To relieve car shortage, Southern
Pacific Company has ordered con-
struction of 1000 new freight cars
some OF which are now being deliver
ed. 4
outherlin n-Resumption of work on
great lumbe industry Gere means
much to the people of this valley.
Raj 'Gad conc rue.im work in prs
pect
Marshfield-Oct. the Coos Bay
line will be turned over to operating |
dept of Southern Pacific Co. and
through service to Portland esta-
Dlished
The Single Tax measure on the bal |
lot at the coming election is another
legislative experiment that would set |
back the industrial growth of Ore
5on ten years. !,
And now 22 western railroads re-
,eive demand from machinists, |
sheet metal workers and blacksmiths |
,or an eight-hour day and 5 cent an |
hour increase in pay.
Vancouver-Residents here are be-
ginning to wonder If jitneys will be !
operated across the Columbia River |
Interstate bridge and keep a street |
,ar company from operating.
Portland-Portland Cordage Co. |
'eceives order for 5 carloads of rope |
or Panama Canal. This Company |
las previously sent several million
pounds OF rope to the same place.
Albany-Cameron Planning mill |
to manufacture new mo-
lei silo, constructed to avoid dan
,ers from expansion and contraction.
Albany-The Albany furniture fac
ory will resume operation September
!, using seventy horsepower. Both
light and power requirements will be
erved by the Oregon Power Com
any.
Portland-Copenhagen ship ow-
ers have spent more than $1,000,-
100 here building new vessels since
DAY 1, and contemplate expending
urther lareg sums.
ICE FOR CAIE-StOrna aunn1ind