The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-07-12
STATE INDUSTRIAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

rortiahd Is alarmed about increas
ing shortage of fuel oil. MANY con
tracts are expiring and advancin,
prices are almost prohibitive.
silverton-A farmers wool pool O
$4,000 lbs. sold for 721s cents.
Medford-County court asks stat,
highway commission for $4,000 tf
help build highway to Blue Ledge
mine.
Astoria is building a public mar.
ket.
Portland shipyards employ 5000
men at good wages. So far imported
agitators have been unable to break
up the open shop system.
Salem-Work is starting on the
new Southern Pacific depot here.
Pendleton-First ten miles paved
state highway to state line, let to
warren Bros, (bitulithic) as lowest
bidders, at $119,12O.
salem eanneries handled 35 tons of
strawberries daily last week.
Gardiner is to secure a new pas
senger station.
Porter Bros. will move sawmill to
Coos Bay and establish a shipyard
Echo-Two sheepmen will build
$4,000 houses near here.
Roseburg manufacturers are trv-
ing to secure contract for millions of
oak tent pegs needed by the army.
The S. P. Co. has finished a mod
ern passenger depot at Reedsburg
Eugene-The State University has
completed military drill hall and will
start work on $4,000 dormitory.
The increasing scarcity of labor is
alarming eastern Oregon ranchers.
Roseburg-The railroad to North
umpqua forest will not be built.
The County voted 100000 aid but
promoters met too many obstacles,
Hood River apple crop for 1917
VIII be handled by Seattle Northwest
ern Fruit exchange.
Pendleton must cease polluting the
umatllla river and build a 100000
septic sewage tank.
Portland-E. ]. Stack. secretarv
of State Federation of Labor, has re-
turned from tour of Eastern Oregon
organizing farmers on the North Da-
kota plan.
Coos Bay--Grant Smith and z. V
Hauser contemplate building A shin
yard on Coos Bay. They already
nave one at Vancouver, B. G., Aber-
deen, Wash, and St. Johns.
Marshfield-The constructio, do
partment of the S. P. C. has finished
5-years job on Coos Bay line. which
makes possible running of finest lin
TED trains to that point.
lndependence-This section work
hs hard to get acreage sufficient To
insure building of beet sugar factory
n spring.
Portland-The Hammer Lumber
'o plans to purchase IA, 900 acres of I
lmber land in Clatsop county for I
100000.
Ihe Pacific Coast Defense League \
trongly urges the building of mil \
,ary road by the government from \
ne Canadian line to the Mexican Y
order. K
Astoria-$20,OO0 distributed last Y
eek to loggers in wages. Y
Gold Hill-Beaver Cement plant N
ear here to start operations. Y
acknowledgement work in Y
le cinnabar district near Browns :
)ro mas uncovered Soap mine"
Is a mineral soap, and it resembles 4
e old-fashioned, dark yellow soap
lrs that corner grocers years ago
led to display.
Huntington-What is believed to
one OF the richest gold, silver and
pper mines opened up in the United
ates for Is years is now being de-
loped at Irondyke on the Snake.
Albany-A new cannery here is
W assured.
Roseburg-A contract for the en-
e production of the Sunshine ranch
to the Gile packing company. So
0 pounds crop is estimated.
Lakeview-W. J. Jamison's 900
e ranch has been sold for 100000.
5000 head sheep, 64 head
rses and mules.
cars of wool shipped
m here brought so cents pound
Pendleton-76S acres of land near
e has sold for $4,000.
Pilot Rock-3OO, 1000 lbs. of wool
d here at 81 cents per pound.
iermiston-Local railroad yards
wing much activity