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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1926)
C E N T R A L P O IN T A M E R IC A N PAC E FOUR ORECON W E E K LY IN D U S T R IA L R E VIE W Baker— City installs chlorination plant, for city water supply. Suthcrlin— Canning factory em ploys 100 workers, canning pears and prunes. Portland may secure refinery for Montana crude oils. Portland— Arrow steamship* line will double its service to and from Portland. State Game department establishes jtf.OOO-acre deer preserve, along Kegene-Klamath Falls railroad. Crater Lake park received 75,234 vieitors this year, up to September 1.’ Portland— Swedish ship “ Strassa” tak**s wheat cargo worth $320,000. * Portland exports for August, $6,- 001,311, broke all previous records for same month. Marshfield— 2800 feet o f North Coos River highway will cost $25,900 to build. Lebanon— Lebanon Nut Growers Cooperative formed, to handle nut crops. Inclined cable railroad, and aerial cable tramway line, costing $350,- 000, proposed to top o f Mount Hood. Klamath Falla— Work begins on $300,000 Pelican Theater. Port Orford— Big lumbering oper ation soon to be launched here. Medford— 87 cars pears shipped from here in one day. Portland had 166 ocean ships in port during August. Hood River— Bids opened, fo r new high school, to cost about $170,000. Baker county peach growers ship ping peaches by carload. Medford— Price fo r California- Oregon Power company shares ad vances under heavy demand. Toledo— Proposal made to locate pulp and paper mill here, if city will cooperate. Hood River— Apple harvest be gins in earnest, with 2,000-car crop in prospect. New settlers in Oregon bought $837,070 worth o f farms, during August. TH U R S D A Y , SE PTEM B ER S3. 192« of Court House, Portland. J a ile d f o r Violating Contract to A member o f a Georgia cotton oust S I 20 , 080 . Klamath Falls— ColJ Storage com- association broke his contract and pnny will increase plant to make 6,- sold outside the co-operative associa 000 tons ice a year, to s u j : tion. The superior court issued an injunction to restrain him from Expre s <n-s. ignored, Cottage Grove— Heavy machinery further selling, which he liiir.g taken to Musick mine, Bohemia and he was sentenced to ten days in jail. The co-operative laws o f the district. Portland— Pacific Nortl west Rad country are here to stay. ---------- o---------- io Exposition is set i t September LONGEST F R E IG H T C R O S S E S 21-25. C O U N TR Y Salem— New York buyer pays Wheeler — Brighton section Roosevelt highway, 288 miles, $26,000, fo r 31 silver foxes raised here. Pendtleton — $2,500,000 McKay reservoir will be completed this fail Pacific coast air mail, now in op eration, declared best route in Am er ica. • Bend— Shevlin-Hixon Lumber com pany gives state deed to Lava River cave park. Astoria— Coast cranberry crop will reach 40,000 to 50,000 boxes. Portland — Apple shipments to same time last year. Lakeview— City plans complete sewer system, to be built early next fall. Contract let 1.3 miles Crater Lake rim road for $35,420. Newberg— Local stock subscrip tions assure building o f $600,000 unit o f paper mill. San Francisco, Sept. 23.— The longest freight shipment o f the year arrived safely on the shores o f San Francisco Bay this week when a four mile length o f heavy submarine cable destined to connect San Fran cisco with Richmond, finished the 3,000 mile transcontinental journey Irom Worcester, Mass., according to T. Saunders, freight tra ffic man ager fo r Southern Pacific company. Some idea o f the immensity of the cable may be had from the fact that its diameter is 4 Vi inches, its weihgt 19 pounds per foot and its total weight 410 tons. In it are 105 tons o f copper, 88 tons o f rubber, 11 tons o f tape, 34 tons o f jute and 177 tons o f armor. It is a three- strand conductor and in the inter stices between the conductors are laid three pairs o f telephone wires Klamath Falls— John Liskey sells and jute fillers. 1,000 cattle and 850 tons hay, at The cable, loaded on four special Merrill. cars each holding a one mile length, Klamath county has 17 rural was guarded with unusual care dur schools with teachers’ living quarters. ing transit owing to its extremely intricate and delicate construction. S T A J E M A R K E T NEW S In spite o f many transportation d iffi culties involved the cable was deliv P o t a t o P ric e s L o o k G o o d The potato crop of the United ered in perfect condition and a sec .States is about the same as that o f ond four-mile length is now in last year, and indications are for transit. W orcester the cable was submerged Elsie Dole, Deed $100, Lot 2 Blk fo r twenty-four hours and then sub 2 Pattison Add. to Central Poin t jected to an electrical proof test o f Jackson county to W. C. Clements 30,000 volts fo r five minutes. Q. C. D. $41.24, Lots 37 and 39, ---------o--------- Blk 6, Central Add to Eagle Point. R E A L E S T A T E TR A N S FE R S (Furnished by Jackson Co. Abstract J. F. Brown et al to W alter C. Company) Clements Q. C. D. Lots 40-41-42- 43-44 Blk 6 Central Add to Eagle City o f Central Point to Mrs. Point. Roundtrip to the Oregon State F air - Salem, Sept. 27*Oct. 2 Go this year— a bigger state fair than ever b e fo r-. Take the whole family, travel by train and save time, iponey and nervous energy. Reduced fare is for use . . . . . . 9ept- z5--0 **- 1 • G ood u n t i l ...............................................October 4 Avoid crowded highways; comfortable trains daily at convenient hours. Southern Pacific The giant cable was constructed fair prices. Prices were good in 1925, and the production this season by the American Steel and W ire com C. A. BOLES, Agent is about 13 per cent below the five pany especially fo r the Great West year average and around 75 per cent ern Power company. Before leaving o f normal. Peaches 50 Cents Each While peaches have retailed as low as 50 cents per box in Oregon Nearly 10,000 pickers at work in they retail from 15 cents to 50 cents hop fields o f Marion county. in Enland, so s ates a Department Settlers coming to Jackson county, o f Agriculture publication. The from the Owens River section, Cali same authority states that Pacific fornia. coast Gravenstein apples sold for Milwaukee—-New $189,000 Union *1.62 in Liverpool, with the smaller High School dedicated. sizes at from $3.41 to $3.89. South Portland is cited in the Forbes ern apples in barrel* sold fo r from national business magazine, as one $5.11 to $9.73. o f the best-lighted cities in the Illinois Knows Value of Lime world. The state o f Illinois knows the Pendleton— 320-acre wheat farm value o f lime as a renewer o f crop near town, sold fo r $40,000. ped lands and last year 800000 tory< Klamath Falls— Warren company were purchased by the farmers o f starts on $81,000 paving contract. that state. Oregon farms need lime Roseburg— Umpqua Valley Can E ffective October 1, 1926, the price o f the 6 percent cumulative preferred shares as badly as the middle west states nery will run until January 1, on but the high cost has held it back o f The California Oregon Power Company will be advanced to heaviest pack in its history. from general use. Tha lime rock Canby— Building $100,000 union is shipped from Jackson county to high school, being planned. tijr prison plant at Salem, where it Seaside— 10-mile stretch o f Roose is ground by prison labor nnd ship velt highway southward, will be sur ped to farmers under local freight faced by September 30. rates. The combined rates make the • Springfield— Southern Pacific rail price too high fo r general use, so road bridge, 261-foot span, being state the farmers and county agents. Orders received up to and including Thursday, September 30, will be filled at erected. Governor Pierce has taken up the the present price o f $94 a share. Glendale Lumber company builds matter o f reduced rates with the new log pond, and will erect large Public Service commission, and a new mill next year. hearing has been called at Salem, Any member o f our organization will be glad to give you Klamath Falls— Trainload o f fat September 22. range stock starts shipping season. Warehousing Canned Good* complete information about our investment offerin g to cus Newberg— Spaulding company will The Secretary o f Agriculture has tomers. Shares may be purchased fo r cash or on our con start sawmill about October 1, and authorized the placing o f canned new paper mill will begin building goods on the list venient monthly investment plan. fo r warehouse poon. storage under the U. S. Warehouse Rainier — Allen A Hendrickson Act. Tanners and various growers’ cannery running three shifts, paying associations in Oregon and Cali $1,100 wages, and handling 35 tons fornia have been working fo r this beans a day. fo r two years past. Under a Federal | Salem has industrial payroll o f W’ arehoiiso receipt it far easier ] approximately $6,500,000 a year, ; to finance than under the old meth- 1 and total payroll o* nearly $12,000,- j "d. All products must be Federally 000. . inspected by licensed raders before j Salem canneries pack one-third of they enter storage arid they are bar- the total northwest canned vege | red from storage if they do not meet j table output. | the requirements. Scio—Evergreen blackberries, once F a rm Condition* Im p ro v e a farm pest, bring fanners $20,000 The Bureau o f Agricultural Eco this year. nomics states that the average farm Tualatin— John Nyberg has 12 i family earned $648 fo r labor and ! um?, rMvrxERs IN S A O C .B Æ S S jrcres peppermint that will pay $«,- management during 1925-26 or $24 750 this year. j more than in the preceding year. Mdwaukie— Hand Forged Tool Although this showing is consider- ; company here pay? $5,000 a month I ably above the very meagre earnings wages. ' dnrtng the severe years o f the de- j Medford— New fireproof Terminal j pressioa it is yet nearly 30 per cent i hotel, codin g $147,000 finished. , lielow the earnings o f 1919-20, the i Roseburg— New- high school unit, j Department states. costing $ 1 9 0 ,0 0 0 furnished, opens S te n c il Y o u r P o t a t o Sack* O FFIC ES! ■ September 20. A state law requires that every | MEDFORD. ORFG O N G R A N TS PASS. OREGON Klamath Falls— Construction be sack o f potatoes sold or offered for K L A M A T H F A L L S , OREGON YRF.KA. C A L IF O R N IA gins on 1100-foot viaduct, to cost i sale in Oregon shall be graded and j ROSEBURG. OREGON DUNSM UIR. C A L IF O R N IA $120,000. ! hare the name and address o f the State game department has re rower stenciled on the sack. Grades, leased 94 wild turkeys and 10,080 regulations, etc., may he had by ■ writing the State Market Agent, 712 | pheasants, since June 1. Announcement of PREFERRED STOCK Price Increase $95 a Share THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY