The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-07-02
WASHINGTON
INDUSTRIAL
REVIEW.

on ten dollar per week minimum
wage. except apprentices who work
six months for $500 and a second
six months for $3.50. Under eigh-
teen boys or girls get $500.
The North Yakima and Valley
Railroad has been sold to the
Northern Pacific and will be i'm
proved in service. Sale price ST.
100000.
Mansfield has a brick and con-
crete building boom.
Seattle travelling men returning
from Alaska all report that the gov
ernment railroad projects are start
ing boom in the territory.
A piano factory to turn out five
instruments a day has located at
Seattle.
Telephone girls stand with their
employees against the Public Welfare
commission in the matter of de-
termining a minimum wage.
The Asphalt Machinery Co. of
Seattle has a contract for mile of
to be part of the Pacific Highway.
The Crescent Manufacturing Co.
of Seattle is taking the Oregon
L uIc Il Oou law IulO Tie ltucIdi
courts. it having barred it's baking
powder from sale in Oregon.
Wenatchee is sending out forty
carloads of cherries.
First pears of the season came
from Kennewick.
The Evergreen Telephone Co. ask
for a franchise at Centralia.
The telephone franchise war at
Spokane is ended with a consOlida-
ton agreement accepted by the city.
Shipgle manufacturers plan re-
ductiOns to meet cut in price caus-
ed by free importation of Canadian
shingles. Operatives may strike.
Work is to begin September 1st
at Centralia on new electric light
plant.
On July l the Wenatchee and ,te
per Columbia river steamboat line
will abandon the river service for
the new r. r. built by the Great
Northern.
Adams County farmers union Op-
poses the eight hour initiative bill
as handicap of unwise legislation
from the producers standpoint.
Ground was broken the past week
for the Washington building at the
Panama Exposition.
The minimum wage for laundry
workers has been set at nine dol
lars by the conference.
Republic has voted bonds for a
$4,000 high school.
Pullman will expend $4,000 on
concrete pavement.
The Willjpa Oil Co. will spend
81 % non drilling at RaVmnnd
Greer gets $4,000 bridge a
cross the Clearwater.
The corner stone of a 100000
normal school building has been
laid at Cheney.
Tacoma friends of industrial adu-
cation are pushing for $4,000
trade school.
A contract has been let at Bell
ingham for the Lake Samish and
water front road to cost $4,000.
The State Capital Commission
has issued $3,000.000 bonds to
build Temple of Justice and COM
plete other state buildings.
The Lewis county Cooperative
creamery did $4,000 business
the past year.
A steel bridge is going in at Ne
Ska across the COwlitz river.
Advocates of the eight hour law
say If Washington would enact this
system, other states might follow
suit-and they might not.
The Public Service Commission
has been working for months to
place valuation on the properties
of the Pacific Power Co. and this
company's hydrO-electric develop
ments are held up indefinitely.
Pierce county will build $780,
900 tuberculosis hospital.
Governor Lister is selecting
site for ten ton per day dynamite
factory to be built and operated by
the state.
Tacoma is to have universal
streetcar transfer privileges.
Railroads are cOntesting assess
ments of their good will and going
value on top of their property val
ues in the federal courts.
July the state tax board starts
On its annual tour of the state to
eaualize county assessments.
Tacoma capitalists will build
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