Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-04-07

pine and hemlock, 60 cents, making
total of approximately s650,000.
New business for the lumbermen
of the northwest was greater in
volume during the past week than
at any time since the spring OF 1920,
according to the report Of the West
! Coast Lumbermen's association. Dur
ing the week the 1874 reporting mills
of the association produced 9,411,306
feet. New business reached the peak
of 91,S25,7S0 feet, and shipments
were 69,403,960.
Hearings of the board Of investiga-
ton on Columbia basin irrigation and
power projects have closed at Spo-
kane, with all protests placed on
record. No further hearings will be
held according to J. B. Cavanaugh,
chairman OF the board Some investi-
cations will be made in northern
Idaho and Montana. Within so days
or so the report of the board will be
completed and forwarded to the fed
| eral water power commission at Wash
| ington, D. c.
Predictions are being made by prune
| growers of Clarke county that trees
will not bloom until the latter part Of
April on account of the cool and con.
tinued Indictment weather. The sea-
son is unusually behind and almost
everywhere late spring is apparent.
The late blooming will have a tend
ency to lessen the danger CT crop
failures from cold rains and late frosts,
but probably will mean tardy har-
vest and damage from early rains in
the fall during the drying season.
A new ruling of the state depart
ment of fisheries and game prohibits
fishing for any kind of food fish in
any trout stream in Washington. The
recent changes in the orders affecting
food fish have caused some misunder-
standing relative to the rights of per-
sons to fish for food fish. The ruling
is the last made. Persons have been
fishing in closed streams, and when
found by the game warden would say
they were fishing for salmon trout.
When they caught any kind of trout
it was kept 1t is to protect the trout
that this order has been made, and
all sportsmen are asked to assist.
The department of commerce,
through the bureau of the census, an.
nounces that the costs of government
for the state of Washington for the
fiscal year ending September 80, 1920,
amounted to SlS,674,902, which was
per capita cost of 1871. In 1917 the
per capita cost was sS.56, and 1914,
sS37. The total revenue receipts In
1920 were s1s,636,6SS, or s13.6S per
capita, For the fiscal year the per
capita excess of governmental costs
over revenue receipts was, therefore,
Sc. The net Indebtedness of Washing
ton was CSC per capita for 1920, SIC for
1917, and 24c for 1914. The per capita
levy for 1920 was s12S2.
Transfer of the shipping boards en-
tire Lake Union fleet of 43 wooden
vessels has been made to the pur-
chasers, the Barde Industrial com.
pany of Seattle by Frederick Haag Jr.,
district manager of the material sales
division of the emergency fleet cor
poration. The purchase price per YES
sci was said to have been $500. The
Barde company put through negotia.
tions several weeks ago by which the
Lake Union fleet and all other incom-
pleted wooden vessels owned by the
shipping board on this coast were
bought Disposal of the fleet, it was
said, would provide large amount
of overhaul work for Seattle and other
Puget sound shipyards.
transfer of the certificate held by
the Interurban Motor company, oper-
ating a motor bus lines between Ever
EFT and Mount Vernon. to the Pacific|
Northwest Traction company, which,
operates electric interurban lines bel
tween Seattle and Everett and between|
Mount Vernon and Bellingham, was auI
thorized by the department of public
works This transfer brings about the|
first instance recorded in this state in|
which an existing railroad line, recogl
nizing the utility and permanence Of
motor bus transportation, has used 1t
as means of furthering its service.
With the bus line the traction com.
pany will connect it's two electric lines
and handle through traffic between
Seattle and Bellingham.