Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-10-14
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS

Two sections OF STATE lanu were SOU
at auction at Walla Walla. Nina
Eaton of WaItsburg bought one sec
lion near Pleasant View for $4,000, or
SIS an acre; George W. Gluck of Walla
Walla, bought one section near Reese
station for $12,42O, or fraction over
$40 an acre.
The high sheep ranges on the Okan.
ogau national forest in north central
Washington are in good condition
row. This section of Washington has
been experiencing a drought of con.
siderable intensity for the past three
years, but the dry spell was broken
in September by heavy rainfall.
Abolition of the north Pacific coast
artillery district with headquarters
in Seattle and consolidation of the two
coast districts into one district with
headquarters at San Francisco is con.
tanned in army orders covering the
reorganization of the administrative
districts OF the coast artillery divi-
sion of the army.
A standard lookout cabin for obser-
Vation by forest rangers has been com
peted on the top Of Gumboot noun
tain, back of Yacolt by John Huffman
and John Meyers of the forest serv-
ice Three and half miles of trail
was made to the summit and the ma
erial for the cabin, weighing 5000
pounds, was packed in.
The Standard Oil company has re-
sumed drilling at their Moclips test
we'll after considerable delay in wait
ing for an underrimmer to arrive from
California. The depth Of the well is
reported as 1890 feet. The formation
in which the drill is working remains
the same, sandy shale. No indica-
tons of gas or oil are reported.
In public statement issued at Seat
tie Representatives Of dairy farmers
shipping milk to Seattle threaten to
distribute their own products In the
city unless the milk dealers restore
Che price of $685. hundred pounds to
the farmers This is the price that
prevailed by agreement between the
milk dealers and dairymen up to Octo-
Der l.
The public service commission has
authorized the Grays Harbor Railway
& Power company to increase street
car fares in Cosmopolis Aberdeen and
HoGuiam. Within the city limits fares
are advanced from to cents and
between the cities from 10 to ~ cents.
| The new fares are established for a
| period Of six months and are effective
On October q.
United States Senator Wesley L..
Jones, candidate for denomination at
the republican primaries September
IA, received a total of 102,S52 votes,
and William l.. Inglis, his nearest op-
| Uonent 41,765, according to results Of
an official canvass announced by State
Auditor Hinkle. For governor on the
republican ballot, Governor Louis F.
Hart received 64,751 votes, and Roland
H. Hartley 52,219.
1t has been definitely decided by the
Portland Railway, Light G Power COM
pany not to make any further at
tempt to reopen the old shaft of the
Superior coal company mine at Che
halls which the Portland concern was
operating under lease. Drift" Cand
that blocked the outlet OF ne
at the foot of the main
which brought trouble off
some time caused the decisiO...
| Contracts for the purchase OF l.
than 10000 acres of timber by the
Long,Bell Lumber company of Kansas
City from the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, were filed with the county
auditor of Cowlitz county last week,
covering more timber than any other
instrument recorded in that county in
years The sale contract covers 1920
acres of land in northwest Cowltz
county and $4,000 acres in southern
Lewis county, all forming compact
block of timber
Surveying crews are being organized
to make the final survey Of the high,
line extension of the Sunnyside canal
Preliminary payments incident to the
$4,000 fund required by the United
States reclamation service before com.
plotting the survey have already been
made by the directors OF the project
Some of the finest land in the Yakima
valley will be watered by the new
canal north of Prosser which will prop
ably extend four o. five miles north
OF the present canal.
In dash to provide food for the
coo natives of the Pribiloff islands
who are rapidly approaching the end
of their supplies at a moment when
an early winter threatens to Isolate
them from all aid, the United States
naval radio repair steamship Saturn
viii leave Seattle for Boring sea on
Thursday with 500 tons of provisions