The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-05-29
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW OF
WASHINGTON STATE
Factories and Enterprises That Provide
PayrOIlS and Matter Affecting the
Development of State


loss Of half million
Wool clips are going off at prices
surpassed but twice in the last twenty
FIVE years.
Seining at the mouth Of the Colum-
bia river has been stopped by order OF
the war department as an obstruction
to navigation.
Early reports on the operation OF the
Minimum Wage law indicate that many
industries will be crippled and many
loose jobs.
A 100000 stock company will
erect a sanitary cannery at Anacortes.
Contract has been let for the new
100000 Pantages theatre at Seattle.
The Moose lodge of Tacoma will
erect a $780, lodge hall.
The Pacific Coast Steel Co. will sup
ply 500 tons of structural steel for the
new port commission warehouse at Sc
attle.
Stanwood and Arlington will each
get mile OF concrete road constructed
this year as sample.
The surveys Of the Alaska railroad
are to be rushed this summer and ar
rangements made for construction next
year.
The canneries and fruit industries
generally are asking to be exempt from
the operation of the minimum wage
laws. This is done in California and
il not done here these industries will
be crippled.
The railroads are making plans to
furnish 10000 freight cars to handle
the Yakima valley fruit crop this year.
The Puget Sound navy yard at Brem-
erton receives $4,000 in appropria-
tions from Congress this year.
The North Pacific Fruit Distributors
corporation with headquarters at Spo-
kane has opened a branch Office at
Portland.
Clallam county is to have work be-
gin on a new s50.0oo court house at
Port Angeles within thirty days.
There is genera. opposition of tax
payers to having all road contracts
forced to an eight hour day by State
Labor Commissioner.
A new fruit cannery will open June
at North PuYallup.
A representative Of the Borden Con-
densed Milk Co. will investigate the
dairy resources Of the Puyallup valley.
The Sumner Fruit Growers Associa-
ton will install a plant to make fruit
Juice from blighted fruit.
Lodge pole pine from the Cascade
mountains treated by new process is
TO be substituted for cedar in construc-
ton of telephone lines.
w. T. Winstead of Centralia has
been awarded the contract for building
sixty miles of Columbia River Highway
in Oregon.
A contract has been let for the erec-
ton of Masonic temple at Morton.
Davenport, Iowa, capitalists will in
stall a sawmill at Index.
Delay in shipping machinery makes
it impossible to open the Pacific Iron
& Steel Co. plant on time as planned
at Tacoma.
Reports show the opening Of 81 new
factories in the Pacific Northwest dur
ing April-mostly small concerns and
many cooperative.
Kennewick strawberry growers ex-
meet to ship out $4,000 crates.
The defeat of all candidates for gov
ernor in Oregon who stood upon freak
nIatforms inimical to industries is OF
interest to the people and politicians
of Washington.
The Skagit River is to be treated to
a $4,000 improvement.
The Tacoma Home Consumers
League is asking that one day in the
year be set aside to emphasize the i'm
portance Of home industries.
The Public Service Board has given
the Puget Sound Electric Co. operating