Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-16

Lincoln county commissioners have
voted to devote a portion Of $4,000
/ in the permanent highway fund in the
| county, to construct road beginning
| at the North Central highway, south
| of Davenport, and extending east
| through Bluestem.
Farmers of Walla Walla county will
be asked to contribute the equivalent
of carload of flour for near east re-
lief The contribution may be wheat,
which will be exchanged for flour by
a mill. About $1,000 has been raised
out Of a quota Of $500.
| Vancouver city improvements since
March, 1919, cost q total of $4,000,
| according to report issued by City
Engineer Shumway. In that period
seven miles of streets were paved, 6la
| graveled and more than 100000 square
feet of concrete sidewalks laid.
Prosser hay growers who have been
able to hold over their crops for the
| spring market are exceedingly optimis-
tic concerning the prospects. Dealers
have been paying $4,000 a ton for re-
cent shipments and evidence points
to still higher price for the next few
weeks.
Twenty-Five vessels will load lumber
at Seattle and other Puget sound ports
for all parts of the world during the
coming week. The 5O,000,0OO feet of
lumber which the vessels are schedul-
ed to load are said to represent one Of
the largest weeks in the history Of the
lumber business in Washington.
! The Whitman county farm bureau
has sent two kilograms to Washington
one to Senator Jones and the other to
Gray Silver of the American Farm
Bureau federation, asking them to
give their support to the passage Of
the Gooding bill for fixing the price
Of wheat for the next three years.
A large fruit acreage in Clarke coun-
ty has been signed up on five and To-
year contracts by the Oregon Packing
company which operates large can
merry at Vancouver. The directors had
threatened to move the packing plant
to Oregon because heretofore most OF
the fruit packed at the Vancouver
plant was shipped In from Oregon.
Tacoma business houses, advised by
the traffic and transportation bureau
of the Tacoma chamber of commerce
to make inquiry from the Pacific Tele-
phone & Telegraph company what tho
cost of their present services will be
under the proposed new phone rates,
are making report to the bureau Of
huge increases and expressing their
surprise and concern that the new
rates means such big jumps in the
cost of telephone service. Reports
thus far turned in to Secretary Nc
Cune disclose increases ranging FROM
61.a per cent to S2.5 per cent.
New outbreaks Of rabies among coy.
otes in the Richland district of north
ern Grant county, coming at a time
when state funds are at their lowest
ebb, are causing serious situation
which may result In condition as
dangerous as that faced a year ago,
and may become even worse unless
state appropriation Is made avail.
able soon to make possible the employ,
ment Of larger force of state hunters,
Glenn R. Bach, predatory animal sup
ervisor in charge Of the Washington
division of the federal bureau Of bio
logical survey, has announced.
The 18th district federal farm loan
bank at Spokane, which serves the
states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and Montana, accommodated 25,0l0
borrowers from the time OF its organ
ization to October 81, according to q
report sent to congress by the federal
farm loan board. In that period appli
cations were made for loans ageregat
] ing SS5,14S,T74, of which S72.242,9S9
was granted on total valuation o!
$2o1, ,76S, ,297. In net earnings this bank
In 1922 stood second only to Omaha
which shows s767Oo3 in profits as
compared with spokane's $675,257.
An increase OF 40 cents a day. re.
, troactiye to February /, has been de
) cided upon by Everett lumber mil
: operators. The basic wage mas beer
I $3.50 for common labor. This actor
+ follows an increase recently voted ii
: Four l. mills.