The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-04-08

the unemployed.
State industrial insurance depal =
ment will lay off fifty unnecessa y
clerks.
Law enacted by Legislature requir.
inp certificate of necessity and con.
venience before public service fran
elise can be issued to be tested.
For state road work $l2,450, 900 be
comes available for expenditure ir
1921.
Yakima has started construction
on Rmrock dam government pro ie =
Aberdeen-20 building permits X
sued the past week from 800 to SIS
600.
State to grade 2000 feet of Cheaa
grade in Okanogan county.
West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. IL
develop six billion feet lumber mar
ket
Wenatchee citizens have organic
I; taxpayers league.
Aberdeen--Copalis beach clam fac
tory resumes operation.
In their campaign for the Colurl-
hi; basin project the people of Wa ~
ireton have used Il total of $l67 900
o. this amount the legislature sev.
oral years ago voted 100000 for i
survey and this year the legislatu' e
voted $4,000 for promotion purposes.
lr addition a private fund of $1700a
was raised to assist the campaign.
Yakima - $4,000 improvements
made in telephone system here
Tacoma Master builders declare
foi 20 per cent wage reduction
Spokane -Bricklayers wages are
cut 50 per day
Colfax-Lot purchased by |. O. O.
+ lodge for $4,000 lodge site.
st. Johns-30,000 silver trout f.,
planted where suitable conditions ex.
list
Mount Vcrnon-Site purchased for
new Y. NJ. c. A. building.
Burlington-$25O,0 1000 milk products
plant will soon be ready.
Mount Vernon--Telephone com
pany plans to spend sos, 900.
Tacoma--St. Paul and Tacoma
Lumber Co. mill here, largest mill in
this section, shut down for first time
in its history.
Spokane-Wage reductions of l2 :,
pei cent made in new scale of butte
int trades, effective April |.
iakima-Nearly $1,O00,OO0 will be
spent in reclamation construction, Oh.
eration and maintenance on Yakim.,
project this season.
Pullman-Standard Oil Co. con,-
pletes 10000 gallon tank here
Wenatchee-Nearly 100000 roa
work to be done here next year.
akima-New contracts are BEING
offered to sugar beet growers in the
Yakima valley in an effort to get a
larger crop planted Persons leasin.,
from the Utah-ldaho Sugar Co. are
allowed to retain ee-fourths of de
crop, as compared with the former
limit of two-thirds, and the price
with a sugar basis price of SS, has
been raised to 1920 ton instead 81
SS.72 ton.
Sunnysde sugar plant to be oper-
ated this fall. Company expects t.
have 5000 acres in beets this seaso..
Prescott-Building site for teacl
crs' cottage selected.
Davenport--Road contract work on
Lords valley sublet
Spokane-East side streets to be
paved.
Yakima building brings $4,000.
Port Angeles-Work commenced o,
! eninsula Roads
Yakima-Conditions here suitable
fol cultivation of sugar beets.
Olympia-$6S5,412 state highway
contracts let Olympic highway ST
miles of paving $114,522; Pacirs
highway, 6 IA miles paving, 1892.
}S}; National Park highway. / :
mics paving, S153,O97; Pacific high.
way, one-half mile paving. 1913. $3.50
Pacific highway Clarke county. AZ
miles paving, S196,471.
The international Mining Conven-
ton to be held in Portland April ) T.
will be of great Importance to the
western mining industry coming al
tins time when many important ma
tiers must be placed before the next
session of Congress. Any person at
tending the convention is a delegat,
ana as such is subject to reduced
rates on railroads.
Americans want labor we'll paid b,t
they do not believe in robbery. Or
gi nized holdups, loafing on the iof
and deliberate restriction of output to
create more Jobs, will not be tolerat
ca and 1t is no wonder the country is
turning toward the open shop idea as
against closed shop radicaism.
Reduced rates for summer travel 70
hitlonal parks and other resorts are
peing announced by various rail
roads. The Union Pacific j. l.,