Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-28

fitted to permit her movement to
San Francisco, where she will be
scrapped, in compliance with the
mandate of the Washington Arms
Conference. The Union Construc-
ton Company bought the old vessel
for junk.
The shoe-making department at
the Washington State penitentiary
has reached that degree of efficiency
which makes it possible to make
by machinery all the shoes, slippers
and boots used by institutions of the
state in about so days if it's machin-
cry were operated to capacity. To
keep all the inmates possible busy,
the department of business control
is resorting to great deal of hand
work.
In line with it's policy to keep the
inmates as fully occupied as posi-
BILE, the department of business con-
troll has planned the operation of the
auto license plate department during
| ing will also soon take up the manu-
| facture Of bedding to supply the var
ious state institutions. Officials at
| the winter. The department en-
| the penitentiary state that illiteracy
has virtually disappeared from that
institution. No prisoner is now re-
leased from either the penitentiary
or reformatory unless able to read
and write
| Yakima County is one Of the rich.
est, II not the richest county in the
state, as shown by the 1923 report
of the state equalization committee,
just out. She has the largest mum
Der OF hogs, sheep and goats; first
in quality and value of farm pro
ducts, in cold storage and ware.
houses. In dairy cows Yakima is
exceeded in numbers by several OF
the west side counties, Kdng, Sno.
homish, Skagit and Whatcom coun
ties each exceeding dairy COW popu
| lation of 1881.
Much satisfaction is expressed by
members of Spokane Poultry Farm
ers Marketing Association, on re
suits obtained since the association
commenced handling the egg output
of the $4,000 hens Of owner-mem
bers. All eggs are now sold through
the pooling and grading system, sc
purchasers know just what they are
buying. Gradually the farmer i,
coming into his own through CO
operative marketing organizations.
| AS the result of a slow but steady
increase in the developing OF dairy
ing among the wheat fields of the
Big Bend country a purebred Guern
sey bull club was organized nea,
Waterville. Eight farmers will own
the animal comparatively with one
OF their number being selected tc
care for him during the year.
The Copper & Brass Research AS
ISOLATION reports that copper con
sumption in this country for the first
three quarters of 1923, including
brass, was greater than consumption
for all the entire year Of 1922 The
outlook for 1924 is favorable by vir
| tue of the prospect of continued &C
tivity in the largest brass and cop
| per consuming industries-automo
| tive and building construction.
! A countrywide poultry association
has been formed by the poultrymen Of
Mason county. This association was
the result of the former community
organizations which the poultrymen
have outgrown. 1t is the purpose OF
| the organization to further the &C
credited hatchery and other phases
of the industry vital to the success
of poultry raising Along the line
of development, twenty 25O-egg cock
erels produced in the county this
season were placed in focks which
are to be used for breeding stock
In each case these high producing
cockerels will head tiocks where
scrub cockerels which had no trar
nest records were ruling.