The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-05-25
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
Of GENERAL INTEREST

Dufur-Contract let for $11,297
school building.
st. Johns has secured a factory for
refining eel oil.
Denver firm buys Port of UmpQua
100000 bond issue.
Grants Pass-Construction start
ed on new planning mill.
Bandon-$66,OOO to be. expended
in repairing north jetty.
Eugene-Experime in rice cul-
ture will be carried on here.
Northwest prune crop estimated at
20, 100000 to 30,000,000 lbs.
Maplewood-Factory opening to
turn out $50 trunks month.
Dufur Lumber Co. making arran-
gements to start operations soon.
Marshield-Much street. sewer,
and sidewalk work is being done.
st. Johns-Work has started on
100000 shipbuilding plant here.
St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. starts
operation ON fourth set of ways.
Hood River strawberry industry
will employ 1000 outside pickers.
St. Helens creamery has output of
500 lbs. daily,$2O00 monthly payroll.
Condon-Contrac let for building
$4,000 bushel concrete grain eleva-
tor.
The big Columbia river highway
bridge will be completed before July
first.
Loganberry industry boosted by
adoption of juice on Pennsylvania
R. R.
Eugene-Chamber of Commerce
arranges for location on which to
erect flax mill.
Hood River-Stanley Smith Lum-
Der Co. will start Green Point plant
with 175 men.
Roseburg-Local druggist expert
menting to make perfume distinctive
Of this vicinity,
Coos Bay leads all other Pacific
Coast ports for lumber shipments
last half of April.
Portland--Eastside business mems s
club will try to tioat$1O0,0O0 bonds
to help start new industries.
Crown-Columbia paper mills in
crease wages amount to $4,000 a
year-third advance this year.
Puget Sound gets direct sleeping
car service to connec' with Hill
steamer at Flavel for San Francisco.
Grants Pass-Million feet of lum-
ber orderedfor construction of beet
sheds and silos at sugar beet factory.
Riddle-Materia is on ground for
enlargeing and improving old nickle
mine to ship ore to Pittsburg smell
ters.
Portland's municipal woodpile
continues to be an expense. It is
now found that bills are being paid
twice.
Drain-Leona Mills Lumber Co.
making many improvements and
building neat bungalows for en-
ployes.
Bandon--L. D. Slavens refuses
$4,000 for a new lead block which
he has patened to use in logging
operation.
Medford will vote on bond issue in
the near future for $4,000 for heating
system and enlargement of Washing
ton school.
Portland will expend $235,O00 re-
building parts Of the Tanner Creek
sewer that caved in owing to bad
construction.
Portland-Oak timbers cut from
trees on lower Columbia will be uti-
lized in building ships at Portland
and other coast points.
Grants Pass-Rich copper ore
has ben uncovered in Waldo mine
and will greatly increase output of
Illinois Valley district.
Toledo. B. Miller sells Miller
Logging Co., including51h miles of
logging railroad to Mr.. Pendleton
who represents large capital
1t would be a crime for Congress
to fail to pass satisfactory legislation
under which water powers of the
west can have immediate develope-
ment.
North Bend company formed of
Coos Bay capital has leased for a
term of years the old mill of the
Simpson Lumber Co. and will operate
same.
Detroit Surveyors working on
railroad grade here some time and
two and half tons of provisions re-
Gently shipped in. Looks as If there
might be railroad activity in the near
future.