Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1917-03-02
OREGON INDUS
TRIAL REVIEW

portland broker was rODDed
of a roll of bank notes while
sleeping in a chair car trying to
save a 50 Pullman fare.
st. Helens-Clatsop county
lets contract for 4-miles grading
and paving at cost of $4,000.
Grants Pass-Indications are
that this city will lose sugar fac
tory built here last year owing to
the fact that sufficient quantity
of beets cannot be secured.
Many other communities are af-
ter plant.
Eugene-Pacific Tel. & Tel.
Co. will soon have Marshfield
connected with this city by fine
line giving first class service.
Brownsville-C here
has many more orders than it
can fill for 1917.
Cottage Grove cannery will
operate this season.
With war threatened, the
country begins to realize the val
lie of great industries and rail-
roads. Legislation and regula-
ton which Injuries and destroys
them, Injuries the whole country.
A crisis like the present shows
that the safety Of our country
in time Of trouble depends on
perfect working industrial Or
ganizations.
Portland--- Metal Trade Coun-
Gil strike in local shipyards
breaking down. More men will
be employed as fast as machin-
cry can be installed.
Public Docks Commission To-
eating site for large public ele-
vator at Portland.
Lebanon-S. P. Co. has large
force rebuilding 1000 foot tres
tie.
Redmond-Standard Oil Co.
building station here to carry
full line OF its products.
Prineville-Oregon Spokes-
man, new paper to be published
here.
Elk City-Alder timber being
shipped from here to Albany fur
niture factory.
Coquille-Sawmill goes to
work on 100000 feet lumber
war order.
Oregon legislature actually
adjourned, leaving $974.65 in
treasury.
Portland gets a toy factory
with 100000 capital.
Legislature provided new
revenue of $324,000 and has
$133, 900 in emergency fund.
North Bend sawmills working
on Eastern war order materials.
Contract let to place 10000
tons rock around S. p. Co. Coos
Bay bridge piers.
Portland stove works will er-
ect 100000 plant.
Portland Saturday manual
training classes are crowded.
Klamath-New fish hatchery
on Crooked Creek to be built
another to be enlarged.
DR.. Melvin, Washington In
dustrial Service Bureau:-"Ev-
entually, however, this struggle
between capital and labor must
yield to industrial cooperative
group in which all interests will
be represented fairly"
Politics is more powerful than
business as is shown by the gen.
eral failure to pass bills consol-
idating functions, boards and
commissions that are duplicat-
ing each other at public expense.
Salem-Bill to spend $780,
900 on home for delinquent chill
dren referred to the people.
Newberg Graphic-The South
ern Pacific log train that is COM
ing in daily now makes music
that has pleasing sound to many
ears. 1t means work for a large
number of hands and this means
the payment of many grocery
bills and other accounts.
Southern Pacific distributes
first half of $110, 900 labor bonus
Tor 1916.
Interstate Commerce Com
mission has raised lumber rates
from all Willamette Valley mills
fifty cents per ton, or ten to
twenty-five dollars a car.
Burke Fish Co. to establish re-
frigeration plant on Coos Bay.
China gets 2400 miles railroad
in 1917 built with American cap
ital. II is to be hoped this year
will see conditions that will in
vite capital to go into American
railroads.
Crane has a $4,000 irrigation
project.
Klamath Falls gets another
box factory to employ fifty
hands.
Marsh hfield--Ontions have