The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-11-30

tneetihg OF the Association of Pacific
Fisheries held at Seattle.
ihree passengers and the driver es.
capped unhurt when one of the big auto.
mobile stages of the South Bend. Nc
uowan stage company suddenly took
IRE while climbing the Bear river hill
N the Ocean Beach highway between
south Bend and Ilwaco.
Yakima is to be allowed $72O. 900 for
eciamation work during the fiscal
rear l924-1S25. commencing next July
l. reduction Of almost so per cent
rom the allowance for the current
fiscal year, according to news receiy.
ID from Washington, d. C.
The Mackall-Pain Veneer company
u vancouver has begun cutting five
carloads Of pepper crates for a con.
'ern In the interior of Mexico, the first
order to be turned out by the plant.
An order has been received for So
'oo,oOO fruit baskets for California
An initiative measure that will per-
init municipalities Of Washington to
acquire, own and operate telephone
systems will be put to vote of the
people In the general election next
year. The bill is now being drafted by
1. j. l.. Kennedy, corporation counsel
Of Seattle.
A contract for building a proposed
sewer system for Pacific Beach was
ordered let to Robert E. Skinner of
Seattle for $11.237.5O by the Grays Har.
Dor county commissioners. The con
tract calls for completion of the Job
by the opening Of the tourist season
June l, 1924.
Chinese pheasant hens and ROSTERS
% the number of 344 have besn liber-
ated In Whatcom county during the
asst two weeks by Game Warden John
VI. Aitken and his deputies. All but
orty-eight of them came from the state
game farm at Walla Walla The forty
eight came from an Oregon farm.
characterized by organization Of
'icials as being highly successful, the
Pacific northwest potato conference
ended at Spokane after a four-day SEES
sion. Exhibitors from all parts OF
Washington, Idaho and Oregon and
Montana placed in the various COM
oetitive awards offered on class b or
commercial potatoes.
Increase of freight rates on fruits
and vegetables from Yakima valley
points to Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham.
Chehalis and other points in that term
nal district, amounting to IL to IA per
lent, Is provided in new tariff, to be
effective December 26, filed by the
Northern Pacific railway with the de-
)artment of public works.
Federal Judge J. Neterer settled
patent rights said to represent
Millions of dollars in smelter machin-
Try investments in the United States
md abroad in decision handed down
1t Seattle in favor of the American
Shelter and Refining company in a
suit filed by George C. Carson. Car
son sued for alleged infringement Of
patents he had obtained on metal
urgical furnace and for construction
If roofs for open hearth reverberatory
furnaces.
Construction Of publicly-owned In
ercoastal terminal, with two large
piers and a warehouse of large cap
.city between them has been planned
or the Skinner & Eddy wartime ship
,ard site at Seattle, which was pur
.hased for 100000 by the port of Sc
title from the United States shipping
BOARD in Washington, d. G. The term
nails will be the center of a new In
iustrial district in the southern part
# the city II present plans of the port
ire adopted.
One of the largest and least utilized
.uns of "dog" salmon in the CONNER
.ial history Of Willapa Harbor marked
he fall fishing season which closed
asst week. Calico salmon, with many
,ilyersides, have almost choked nearly
Ill of the rivers flowing into the har-
,or. Only one cannery, that of Wei
.radt Bros, at Nahcotta, was ready to
axe care of the run, and In conse-
,uence very few of the fish that sought
Nillapa Harbor this season will find
heir way to market.
d. ]. Crowley, expert In charge OF
cranberry Investigations for Pacific
county, who has recently returned
rom a visit to the cranberry produc-
ng sections of the eastern states, de-
.lares himself as more pleased than
yer with the Pacific coast as an ideal
cranberry producing section. Accord
ng to Mr.. Crowley, not only Is pro-
,uction greater on the Pacific coast
,ogs. acre for acre. but in his judg-
nent the quality Of the Pacific coast
Very cannot be excelled in the en-
Ire world.
A special meeting Of the directors
md stockholders of the West Coast
umbermens association, to consider
he Standardization of lumber grades