Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1920-09-09
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings in And Over
The Puget Sound State

Soda fountain proprietors OF Spo-
kane and Seattle who sought to es.
cape paying part OF their government
tax on ice cream and soft drink sales
paid $4,000 additional as result OF
the campaign recently put on by the
department Of internal revenue, nc.
cording to Deputy Collector c. w.
Waters Of the Spokane office.
Northwestern lumber activity will
continue at a low ebb until transcon.
tinental carriers inauglrate contem-
plated notifications OF new freight
rates which went into effect last week,
according to the weekly lumber IN
dustry report issued by Robert b.
Allen, secretary-manager of the West
Coast Lumbermen's association.
Existing rules and standards in re-
lation to hay grades will be continued
in force as applied to hay produced
In 1920 and prior years, the
public service commission has an
nounced Before the hay season OF
1921 the commission will render a
decision as to grades that shall govern
the crop of 1921 and following years.
The survey of the remaining 10000
acres under the 3unnyside highline
canal is now under way. 1t is esti-
mated that the cost of completing the
preliminary survey and making of
maps will reach $4,000 Forty.fiye
thousand acres, known as the Yakima
Benton irrigation district, have al
ready been surveyed by the govern
ment.
Grays Harbor may have no salmon
pack this year, according to officials
Of cannery companies operating there.
Heads of the Sea Beach company have
announced that the cost of packing
under present conditions Is more than
can be obtained for the product, and
their cannery, as result, will not
open. Other Gamers expressed SINH
lar doubts.
Extension Of the interurban from the
state line to Umapine Is being consid.
cred by Walla Walla Valley railway
officials. The proposed extension Is
six miles In length and If built will
tap big alfalfa and fruit belt which
now has no railroad facilities. The
company is now tearing up some of
the rails in the city on an abandoned
line and will have sufficient steel for
the extension.
The Federal Land Bank Of Spokane
completed in August 1877 pending farm
mortgage loans totaling s53S,250, not
withstanding the enforced stoppage OF
its active operations caused by the suit
brought in the United States supreme
court attacking the constitutionality OF
the farm loan act. according to the
monthly report OF President D. G.
OShea. No new loans can be made
until the suit is settled.
The state of Washington, on the
basis of its gain ia population In the
last ten years, will be entitled to
sixth representative in congress under
the new superintendent, If the basis
OF representation is not materially in
creased. The population of the state
is 1.336.316, an incie ease OF 214,326 in
the last ten years, or slightly more
than the requirement for a represents
tive on the existing basis.
Arthur p. Davis, director of the
United States reclamation service, will
assist the city of Seattle in its plan
to develop a 5O,OO0,horsepower hydro.
electric power project on the Skagit
river. Mayor Caldwell was notified
by James Barton Payne, secretary of
the interior, that the government will
permit Mr. Davis to act in an advisory
capacity in connection with the city's
water power development