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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
3
The excerpt blends speculation on early gas advantages for vehicles with scattered land transfer records in Dallas and Salem areas. It notes a unique fuel concept, local deeds, and a Marshfield mill resuming shingles production, plus strawberry pickers earning around seven dollars fifty per day.
Oregon notices report Northwestern Turpentine distilling pitch from timber stands near Nehalem and Tualatin watershed. A $250000 plant yields turpentine and balsam from old fir. Sugar substitutes and baked cookie tech from London machines debut in Portland. Swiss goat herd to join Hazelwood creamery stock. $15000 Swim cheese setup planned. Diatomite mine at Lower Bridge eyed for new warehouse, paint filler and insulation use. Crown Willamette buys Clatsop holdings for 1 to 2 million dollars.
Sadike Mountain Logging Company begins operations in Clatsop county with expenditure over 1500 and 1000 to develop a vast timber tract. Construction of a new cold storage plant is planned if sufficient stock is sold as the Salem plant expands its fruit and vegetable hydration business. Eugene reports Balm wood cuts rising as Excelsior is produced.
A local manufacturing plant reports 128 men are currently in the woods near its site. The situation involves workforce deployment and potential industrial or labor considerations. Further details on the context and objectives were not provided in the fragment.
Bend Grangers from across Oregon attended an outdoor banquet with menus made from pine strips supplied by a local mill. Another mill cut up cedar shingles for menu boards. The district forester reports Oregon ships Portland Western red cedar to every state, California as the largest buyer, with about one tenth of production going to southern states.
Granta Pase To oversees a project in Josephine County to enhance gold savings from Bridge Creek by installing an electric gold saving machine. The initiative aims to increase efficiency and output in local mining efforts.
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