The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-10-18
OREGON INDUSTRIAL
ACTIVITY

Bangor's roads to be paved.
Reedsport is to have a new hotel.
Pendleton-Lewis street to be paw
ed.
Roseburg may have tent peg fac
tory.
Oregon ranks seventh in domestic
wool clip.
Prairie-A new -four mill starts op-
GRAFTON here.
Oakland-1890 acre ranch near
here sold for $4,000.
Canyon City is now arranging to
Install electric lights.
Halfway-A new fireproof build
ing is completed here.
Harrisburg-New creamery-cheese
factory begins operations.
Marshfeld-A 100000 apartment
house is to be built here.
Canyon City-A big dredge will be
here by the first of the year.
The Dalles Garage Co. to erect a
lew building at cost of $4,000.
Gold Hlil-The Nellie Wright gold
mine will resume operations soon.
Eugene cannery will probably run
all winter putting up vegetables.
Pendleton-A 300-acre ranch near
Adams, sold for s162.5O an acre.
North Bend-The new concrete
highway here is now open to travel.
Cottage Grove - Bank deposits
here increase $4O,537.12 in 8 months.
Crane-The contract for a $40, 900
store house here has been awarded.
Dufur-The Pacific Power and
Light Company is installing lights
here.
Vale-Nitrate deposits have been
located here by the Hercules Com
pany.
Enterprise-New tract of land
opened for settlement in Wallowa
county.
Pendleton-Local banks to handle
sS,0OO,OOO wheat crop of Umatilla
county.
Marshfield-The Sitka Spruce Co.
is spending 100000 on improvement
of property.
Milton-The local banks show q
large gain, deposits now reach nearly
$1,O25,OOO.
Salem-The new 100000 plant Of
Wittenburg-King Company is now
ready for work.
Bend-Stockmen estimate thai
$4,000 sheep will winter on irrigated
lands near here.
Planning mill of Booth
Kelly Lumber Co. is destroyed by fire
1t will be rebuilt.
Fort Rock-Freemont creamery
installs new machinery which viii
double its capacity.
The Dalles-A $70,124 contract
has been let for highway between
Mosier and Chenowith.
North Bend-Buehner Lumber Co
to commence construction work on 8
new planning mill soon.
Mapleton - The Commonwealth
Lumber Company has started the
erection of a $4,000 foot mill at Ne.
koma.
Harrisburg is selected as site for 8
new hardwood sawmill. Machinery
is already on the ground. The mil
will employ fifteen men.
Marshfleld-The Coos and Curr!
Telephone Co. is aiding the govern
ment in constructing line to the new
Coast Guard station at Florence.
Coos Bay-Kruse & Banks to be-
gin third government ship, the plar
Is to start a new vessel every thirty
days or six weeks. The new ways are
progressing.
Medford-The completion Of a$2,
100000 hydro-electric works Of the
California; Oregon Power Co. at Cop
co, California may electrify s. P. lines
over the Siskiyou mountains.
Portland-The streetcar men ant
the company agree to leave the de-
cision for wage increases to arbitra
tion. That is the common-sense way
and, just now, the patriotic. 1t Is q
pity the idea does not prevail else.
where.
Salem-The Pacific Telegraph and
Telephone company is making the fol
lowing improvements: Construction
work covering the rebuilding of toll
road between Chemawa and Salem al
a cost Of $14,200. Also, a 50-pail
armored submarine cable to be laid
across the Willamette river at cost
Of $1,700.