The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-12
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
OF PAST TWO WEEKS
Enterprises Providing PayrOIIs For the
People and Matters Affecting the
Development of Washington

The Farmers Union of Walla Walla,
Colum bia and Garfield counties is op-
posed to initiative measure No. II tax
ing the fishing and oyster industry Of
the state.
The Citizens State Bank Of Auburn,
with $4,000 capital is being incor-
porated.
Oregon manufacturers are divided in
support Of the Workingmen's Compen-
sation act on the ground that fatal acci-
dents have increased 33 per cent and
non-fatal accidents 40 per cent accord
ing to the report of the Washington
commission for 1913.
The manufacture of the sawdust
bricquett is being considered by a
number of numbering concerns.
Southwestern Washington fruit grow
ers are uniting forces with the North
Pacific Fruit Distributors corporation.
Farmers and business men generally
are fighting the adoption of the state
wide eight hour law.
The Trustee Company has accepted
the 25 year steam heating franchise
granted by the city of Spokane and will
expend 100000 on plant.
Mansfield will be rebuilt with build
ings of better class, and rise like a
phoenix from the ashes of the recent
big fire.
The Newaukum railroad company
will begin at once to build from Napa-
vine, seven miles south OF Chehalis, to
the holdings Of the Carlisle Pennell
Lumber Co.
Bids are called for on the new King
county court house to cost $o50,000.
There is general opposition to sub
mitting to the people large number
of freak laws that are being initiated,
and disposition to vote them all down
in the interest Of the state is manifest.
The Pacific Rubber and Tire Manu-
featuring Co. will establish plant at
Seattle to employ $50 men.
The cannery of the Clark County
Growers Union started up last week on
strawberries, employing many girls and
women.
Robinson Bros. will build a three
story hotel at Centralia.
The practical working Of the Wash
ington Workingmen's Compensation
act does not show lessening OF acci-
dents, but results in penalizing care
fully managed factories for the careless
and the bankrupt.
A $4,000 theatre is being built on
Riverside avenue, Spokane.
The Lebam Mill and Timber Com,
pany will rebuild its plant recently
burned at a cost Of 100000.
Muir & Fuller of Benton were the
lowest bidders on the new school build
ing at Darlington.
The fruit crops in Okanogan county
are far in excess of last year, reported
ten boxes to one in 1913.
The county, municipal and school
district debt of Washington is Sl41,-
18o,o24, or 1877 per cent OF the val
uation, with annual interest charge of
five million dollars.
A new Catholic church is to be
erected at West Side, North Yakima,
to cost $4,000.
Okanogan will vote this fall on re-
moyal of the county seat, and Omak,
Okanogan and Conconully are candi-
dates.
A contract has been let for the last
eight miles of the Inland Empire high
vav from Colfax north to Steptoe. This
completes the s1,7so,Ooo programme
for permanent roads.
Aberdeen is to be made the Standard
Oil center of distribution for Southwest
ern Washington.
The issue Of $4,000 Pullman water
bonds has been sold for 1921 premium
and the buyers to furnish the blank
bonds.
Centralia merchants have erected
$50 feet Of hitching posts and conven-