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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1926)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926 OREGON WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL Astoria— Astoria Flouring Mills REVIEW running 4,000 barrels flour a day on four shifts. Harper— Surveyor* begin work on Springfield— City builds city hall great Vale federal reclamation pro and fire station for new fire equip ject. ment. Harper— Mines producing diato- Philomath— Canners pay pickers maceous earth to greatly increase $20,000 for wild evergreen berries. production. Myrtle Point — Holt-Chase can . Salem— Oregon Linen Mills, Inc., nery runs to capacity on blackber ships in 27 cars o f machinery for linen plant. Factory will use 137 ries. electric motors. McMinnville— Dundee walnut ex change sells first carload o f walnuts Salem— Sixteen local canneries will pack more than 1,000,000 cases in California. this year. Federal budget for 1927 gives apart Willamette river $40,500 for canals and locks; Cascades canal $14,000; Dalles-Celilo canal, $15,000. Oregon mills use 300,000,000 feet Eugene— $100,000 Baptist church of lumber for paper-making, each to be built. year. Oregon City— New Butler ments to cost 3250,000. Gold Beach — Engineering & Portland leads country west of Mississippi as cloak-suit center. Busi Metals company has big black-sand ness has grown 330 per cent in three mining plant ready for installing ma chinery. years. Gold Beach— State game depart Medford— Southern Pacific an nounces cut o f $45 a car on pear ment liberates wild turkeys for game birds. shipments East. McMinnville— Smith chicken nery to build large new plant. But alas, conditions are so very bad that Mr. MacNeill cannot leave his post o f duty in Mexico to enjoy his usual annual vacation on the Rogue. He has our heartfelt sym pathy. None other o f our annual visitors gets such pure unalloyed enjoyment out of a visit to the Rogue as he. Zane Grey writes that he will be here early in September and pack into his new camp half way between here and the sea. Grey loves to break contact with civiliza tion and hide away for a while in some vast wilderness. The sound o f the automobile is not music to his ears and the smell o f burning oil and gasoline doesn't appeal to his senses like the fragrance of the pines. He gets his best inspirations from Nature and the lonely desert, the wide expanse o f the ocean or the wild rocky canyon o f a moun tain river is his natural environ ment With his wonderful power o f description he brings this en vironment to his millions of readers and many lives are made brighter and happier by enjoying this en vironment with him in imagination. Grey is perhaps the greatest living Portland — P a c i f i c Northwest for July reached $652,045. o - ■ ■ - Radio Exposition to be held here ROGUE FISHING DRAWS MANY September 21-25. INTO VALLEY Harrisburg— First mint still in Joe Wharton in Grants Pass Courier this section is built. From all parts of America men are Stayton— Company formed to man coming to fish in the Rogue River. ufacture Korinek's veterinary reme Every mail brings letters asking for dies. information regarding the steelhead run and same are so eager to learn that they cannot wait for the slow traveling mail and they telegraph. These inquiries come from men in all levels of life, wealthy men and poor men, men o f leisure and work ing men, they are all anxious for a try at the fall run o f steelheads. During the last fe.- reeks one of the nation’s most prominent o ffi cials disappeared from official life and few people knew what had be come o f him. We know where he is Somewhere on the two hundred and fifty mile stretch of Rogue River from its source to its mouth, trying to coax the elusive steelhead into taking his fly. He needed rest and recreation and naturally he sought the banks o f the Rogue. In the Au tumn season, there is no more beau tiful place on earth and no place — to meet every requirement in with more appeal to the man who * loves the great out doors. To wade and buck the swift current in your dry-cleaning is our claim for your endeavor to place your fly in a spot just beyond your reach, white water patronage With fine workman flashing in the sun, music o f falls in your ears and green trees reflected ship such as to impress your favor in the bosom o f a quiet pool just beyond, believe me, a day spent in . . . though our charges are such an environment is a day worth only standard. while and one that will long live in your memory. And then the strike and the battle with the great CITY CLEANING AND est o f fighting trout, the steelhead fresh run from the sea. What DYEING CO. keener thrill ran a man ask for? "W E ARE NOT SATISFIED And it is just this that brings men Unfailing Care UNLESS YOU ARE” « <24 N. Riverside Ave Highway— Medford, some new records on swordfish and other species. And yet, after all these thrilling experiences, each September he finds himself longing for the environment of Rogue River and the appeal is so strong that ne comes and stays and stays until the winter rains drive him to milder climes. The Pogue appeals to men in all walks o f life and from now on until the winter rains convert the stream into a raging torrent, its banks W ill be lined with fishermen. We Are Manufacturers of DOORS, SCREENS, WINDOWS AND SASH, WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES, MOULD INGS, CABINETS OF ALL KINDS Our Constant Aim is to Keep Our Quality and Prices Absolutely Right. Do Not Order From Qut-of-ToWn Concerns Before Letting Us Figure on Your BH1. TROWBRIDGE CABINET WORKS > , i. * - J A MODERN MILL Medford • ft h; Oregon I f| W f ilili « ! t « r a ^ ln f. Dividends for You From Electrical Development ÎT IWVfSTMf NT PtfAMMINI PT <V This Investment Merits Its Popularity • Oregon rfom far distant places to the Rogue. D. G. C. MacNeill, British Consul at Colima writes, “ Zone Grey’s story and pictures make me desperately j homesick for my beloved Rogue.” . * * * T. » Jv7, f ILLIONS of people throughout the United States have invested their sav ings in the securities of electric light and power companies. N ot only individuals, but the banks and insurance companies also rely on this great industry for a safe return on their investments. M m On angler. He has fished the seven seas and holds world records on a great many species o f deep sea fish, all taken on light tackle. A few years ago he fished in Nova Scotia waters and captured the world record Tuna. In the early months of 1925 he fished near the Equator around Gallapogos and Cocos Islands, the haunts o f pirates in earlier days, and broke many world records on various kinds of deep sea fish. Early in this year he fished New Zealand waters and set Fort Klamath— Stockmen here will can ship about 15,000 cattle this fall. Portland land office has 159,521 Portland— Steamer North King acres o f public lands open for home brings 119,000 cases salmon and 450 salmon cannery workers from Alas steading. ka. Marshfield— Last piling ready for rocking to complete $3,310,000 jetty. Toledo— Buildings just completed or under way total $200,000. Ferndale district, Umatilla county, to build $17,500 8-room school. Butte Falls— Contract let for new $25,000 high school. Cascade line o f Southern Pacific, the Eugene-Klamath line, to be op Harrisburg— Doernbecker Furni ened for service during September, ture Company logging 3,000,000 feet has cost $20,000,000. o f timber here. Columbia county spent $31,653 on Federal surveys classify 20,000 roads during July. acres o f Oregon lands as water power sites. Garibaldi— Whitney mills to spend $20,000 for sawdust incinerator. Milton— 100 to 125 carloads o f local apples will go to Denmark this Yoncalla— H. F. Wells gets 90 year. pounds peppermint oil worth $12 a pound, from one acre. Portland— Engineers to lay out new 900-acre Guild’s Lake industrial State highway department will re site. ceive bids on great Rogue River bridge on Roosevelt highway. Portland— Steamers Hannawa and Orient take 9,500,000 feet lumber Medford — Local pear industry to East coast. daily payroll is over $10,000 a day, to 3,000 workers. Klamath Falls— $350,000 union high school projected here. Klamath Falls building permits Phone 474 PAGE THREE CENTRAL rOINT AMERICAN m There are sound reasons for this popularity. Public utility securities have a high reputa tion for safety of principal and good return. 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