The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-01-29
STATE INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Items of Interest on Many Subjects from
Every Part Of Washington

ton should be furnished 90 days be-
fore the Legislature meets. The board
should also have power to check over
all institutions.
Governor Lister says the state pub
lie service commission should be given
regulative power over municipality
owned utilities.
Chehalis-New steel bridges are or
dered at Newaukum and on the Napa-
vine road.
Kalama-Conract will be let Feb. 3
for a mile OF the Lewis river road.
Everett-The new postofice is to
be 10 by 1872 feet.
Aberdeen-Hans Hanson is the
low bidder on the p~ostofice $8,840.
Port Angeles-Wm. Conton will
erect a $40, 900 concrete building.
In his veto of extension Of municipal
street car lines, Mayor Gill OF Seattle
says: Street railways in all parts Of the
country are experiencing difficulty in
raising money thru fear Of notorious
competition. If the city, in face of
this fact, begins to spend money on fur
Their extensions, we are fools rushing in
where angels fear to tread.
A new electric plant is being install
ed at Ridgfield.
The Grand Rapids single mill has
started on a permanent run.
Jitney buses have stopped all mu-
nicipal streetcar line extensions in Sc
attic.
Governor Lister in his speech at
the State Federation of Labor meeting
said that in event the laborer could Sc
cure 10 months OF work each year much
Of the trouble between labor and CAPT
tai would vanish.
C.. A. Lynch Of Rosalia and ]. c.
Almach of Rockford have purchased
the Colfax Commoner. sa1
Loomis-Water highly impregnated
with oil has been found at depth of
$50 feet.
Observation-Disclosures are push
ing cannery project.
Marcus men are boosting a state
road from Davenport to Kettle Falls.
The Pacific Power & Light Co. will
make extensions from Toppenish to
the reservation lands.
Olympia-So many bills were intro
duced one day the speaker asked for a
recess to properly refer them.
Pomeroy-Local farmers Union
resolved to stand by home merchants.
Manager Green Of the Everett Gas
Company says three large lumber mills
employing over 500 men, resumed
operations last week.
President Elmer Dover OF the Ia
coma Gas Company says many lumber
mills, some of which have been closed
for two years, are now resuming oper-
atoms and logging crews are now being
put back, with all indications of an ac-
tive year in the lumber industry.
The C. M. & St. Paul tunnel, oyer
two miles in length, costing $4,000
900. is ready for traffic. Not a life was
lost in its construction.
Edgeclif tuberculosis sanitarium
contract has been let tor $45, 185.
The Davis Bill pledges each mem
Der of the legislature to introduce no
more than three bills in the session.
Wheat acreage in the Northwest for
1915 will reach Q. 100, 900 acres.
Buckley-Steel has arrived for the
new bridge across White river.
1t is reported the Goodyear Timber
Co. will erect a 81, 900, 900 sawmill at
Port Angelus. This company has
just started construction Of a $250,0OO
mill at Clallam Bay.
The new Hill steamships which
leave Philadelphia Jan. 81 and Feb. Is
will bring 1000 tourists to the coast on
their maiden trip thru the Panama
Canal.
More work is in sight at the Bremen
ton navy yard than for six months past.
Ground is being broken at Bremen