Southern Oregon Industrial Growth and Granta Pass Developments
Grants Pass city council member H. L. Herringer reports rapid industrial expansion in Grants Pass and Josephine County. Projects include a concrete dam on the Rogue River for irrigation, a railroad to the marble caves, and mining near the Illinois river. Prune growers in Willamette Valley discuss market conditions and crop prospects amid light California crop estimates.
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Grants Paes
Oregon
H. L. Herringer
Granta Pasa
Hersinger
Grants Pass
Josephine County
Rogue River Valley
Hertinger
Rogue River
Granta Pass
Applegate
Williams Rivers
Higgins
Anderson
Kirby
Illinois River
Salem
Willamette Valley
Gow
Europe
California
Lakeview forms Lake County development league
The Lake County Development League replaces the Lakeview Board of Trade and aims to develop the entire county by organizing precinct clubs and engaging citizens in valleys like Goose Lake and Chewaucan. It anticipates a regional boom with the Nevada California Oregon railway and irrigation projects. The group will push homesteading and entry across numerous valleys including Summer Lake and Christmas Lake valleys.
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Lakeview
Lake County Development League
Lakeview Board of Trade
Nevada-California-Oregon Railway
Lake
Goose Lake Valley
Warner Valley
Chewaucan Valley
Summer Lake Valley
Christmas Lake Valley
Horse Mountain Valley
Edith Valley
Silver Lake Valley
Prison Contract Reaches Settlement With State Authority
Salem contract terms settle weeks of dispute between Governor West and Loewenberg Go ing Co. A 200 man limit at the state penitentiary store foundry replaces former open use. Governor may requisition extra convicts for road work. Nine hour day, lavatories and baths required, fire protection updated. Payment dispute over 14 convicts remains, with state suing as needed. Hood River fruit union ships first strawber ry carload after year, crop late but quality expected high, with 60 000 to 75 000 crates forecast.
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Salem
Hood River
Union
Bentley Installs Farm Electric Plant Near Pendleton
Spencer M. Bentley, a leading local wheat grower six miles north of Pendleton, has equipped his farm with a modern electrical plant. A ten horsepower gasoline engine powers forty lights for dwelling, barns, and sheds, and runs motors for water pumping, feed cutting, wood sawing, grinding, and other farm machinery.
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Pendleton
Spencer M. Bentley
Echo Scouring Mills Open Season With Large Wool Run
Echo scouring mills begin the season with mills and warehouses full of wool. The run will likely exceed usual length as local clips totaling half a million pounds join from outside. Three carloads arrived from Arlington. Baker County Judge Basche announces no $10,000 county appropriation for the Oregon Idaho Snake River bridge at Brownlee, blocking its construction without matching funds.
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Echo
Echo Scouring Mills
Arlington
Baker
Basche
Baker County
Snake River
Brownlee
Oregon
Idaho
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S. Cox
Bell Phone
Independence, Ore
Independence and
Drexler & Alexander
Independence, Oregon
Geo. C. Will
Salem, Oregon
Edison, Victor and
Columbia
Watt Shipp
The
Sun Typewriter
L Rice
the Furnisher
Independence
Southern
Frultmen
Capitol
Olcott
C. D. Frazer
Portland
Senate
West Stayton
Weat Stayton
Polk County Bank
Monmouth, Oregon
Hawley
V. Butler
AC. Powell
Cahier FS
Powell
the Arcade Cigar Store
F. A. Williams
L. G. Reeves
H. Hirschberg
A. Nelson
Co. W. Irvine
B. F. Smith
D. W. Sears Otis D. Butler
Dallas Lumber & Logging CO
Lessess
Willamette Valley Lumber Co
J. S. Bohannon
Independence Livery and Feed Stable
J.D. Layton and Son
Jim Hillird
Main Street
White House
WM. McGilchrist & Sons
State Street
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