Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-10-06
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences OF Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

The Tacoma chamber of commerce
will protest any increase in telephone
rates.
The Clarke county prune crop has
not been materially damaged by the
recent rain.
Cowlitz county's total assessed val.
uation is placed at $1I211 900 by the
state equalization board.
Eleven players in the Grays Harbor
Commercial baseball league finished
the season with averages of more than
400
A robber held up Sam Kosky, Sc.
attic jeweler, near Renton, King coun.
ty, and escaped with jewelry valued
at $4,000,
The second annual meeting of the
Pacific northwest foreign trade coun.
Gil will be held at Tacoma December
IA apd 10.
Lumber production was 10 per cent
above normal for the week ending
September %, according to the weekly
review of the West Coast Lumber.
mems association. New business was
reported per cent below production,
Shipments were per cent above new
business. One hundred and twenty
mills reporting to the association
manufactured 92,449,665 feet of lum-
Der, sold S5,56S,7O4 feet and shipped
SS,1SS,964 feet.
Vancouver's famous apple tree, now
nearly century old, and bearing a
crop of fruit this year, will represent
Washington state in the national hall
of fame, established by the American
Forestry association. One tree, the
most historical from each state, will
be told about in the magazine of the
organization. Vancouver's old tree
was planted in 1924 by the valet of an
officer of the Hudsons Bay Trad
ing company, which at that time had
a trading post near the site of Van
couver barracks.
Surveying of the route for the Cow.
litz Lumber company's new logging
railway from the bank of the Cowlitz
river on the George Smith place into
the company's timber holdings, which
commence about mile east of the
river, is under way. The company
will build about "a miles of railways
and rollways, and will have the line
ready for operation early next sum.
mer. This line will tap about 5O,O0O,.
600 feet OF timber and a later ex-
tension of little more than one mile
will reach 4O,OOO,OOO feet more.
Two bids received for construction
of the Wolf creek irrigation project
on the Methow river, in Okanogan
county, considered too high, were re-
iected and the work is being under
taken by day labor and small con
tracts, Dan A. Scott director of the
department has announced, Both bids
we're in the neighborhood of $4,000
and ran within a few hundred dol.
lars of each other BY the method
adopted Director Scott expects to
save $4,000 or more for the district.
The Wolf creek district is project
of 1000 acres bonded for $4,000 and
is one OF the best stock and dairy dis.
tricts in the state
e. e. Iytel, builder of several rail.
roads in Oregon, has announced extern
sive railroad development plans for
Yakima and Klclitat counties in
Washington, The announcement was
made following incorporation of the
Yakima Southern Railway company at
Olympia, which will push the work,
Lyle said One proposed line will
be eighty.six miles long and will run
from Yakima to Underwood, on the
Columbia river The estimated cost
of this line is 100000. Another line
will run from North Prosser thirty
miles to point ON the Columbia river
opposite Messner Or. 1t will cost ST..
100000 A third line is projected from
Beverley 10 Yakima, thirty.eight miles,
to connect with the Chicago, Mllwau.
kee G ST. Paul.