Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-04
Washington State News

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United States navy made S4.S knots
per hour in forty-mile gale in the
Strait of Juan de Fuca Her builders
were the Todd Dry Dock & construc-
ton company of Tacoma.
Lewis county farmers already have
placed orders with r. G. Fowler. coun-
ty agent, for $1,000 pounds, three car
loads. of sodatOl. the new explosive
that is being furnished at s5.s6 per
hundred delivered, for use in stump
blasting and other farm work.
Two postoffices. three stores. two
residences and the office Of a. pole
company. in Yardley and Parkwater.
railroad shop towns near Spokane.
we're robbed and several hundred dol
lars in money. stamps and merchan-
disc reported to have been taken.
An ordinance providing for an Inn
provement district for paving four
blocks was passed by the city council
Of Davenport. It will be necessary to
call an election for a general bond is
sue for 40 per cent of the cost. The
estimated cost of the work is $26,530.
During 1923, with the exception of
the last week, total of 5,214, 937,274
feet of lumber was produced by the
100 mills of the West Coast Lumber
mems association, according to re-
port compiled by Robert B. Allen,
secretary-manager of the company at
Seattle.
Agreement by the department OF
public works of Washington state and
the public service commission of Ore
gon to work in cooperation in enforce
ment of railroad scale testing regula-
lions was reached in a conference at
Olympia Of Washington and Oregon
officials.
Application to divert 400 cubic feet
Of water a second from the Sultan riv-
er in Snohomish county for use in a
hydro-electric plant has been received
draulics, from the Puget Sound Light
and Power company. 1t is expected
to develop 1000 horsepower.
A Great Northern railroad schedule
of new freight rates intended to ap-
ply to fresh fruits and vegetables ship
ped out Of the Yakima district has
been suspended by the interstate com
merce commission to await an investi-
cation as to the reasonability Of the
increases which it would involve.
Among wheat-producing states Of
the country having 100000 acFes OF
more in crop. Washington alone shows
an increase in winter wheat acreage
of 1923 sowing, according to the Chi.
cago Daily Drovers Journal. Washing.
ton has a gain in winter wheat acre
age of 10 per cent. according to the
Chicago publication.
Charging fraud and deceit by which
they claim to have lost thousands OF
dollars in a transaction with the Ex-
change National bank of Spokane. five
stockholders OF the First State bank
of Prescott filed suit for $4,000 in
the superior court Of Walla Walla
county against Fred Stevens, state
bank examiner, and the American
Surety company of New York.
Requirements of both the old and
the new 1923 law relative to road and
bridge construction and public work
in general have been habitually ignor.
ed by the King county commissioners
In the prosecution of road and bridge
work in commissioners districts No.
2 and No. 8, according to a report
made by State Examiners o. S. Bruins
and ]. L. Dittemore of the department
I of taxation and examination, division
of municipal corporations.
The state highway department will
let contracts for road work on three
projects on January %. as follows:
State Road No. 8, clearing, ten miles
from Lunch creek west, in Grays Har
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road, clearing. twenty-five miles, be-
tween the Hob river and the north
line of the Quinault Indian reserva.
ton, in jefferson county; Inland EN-
pire highway, srfacing with crushed
rock, ten miles from Spangle, north,
in Spokane county.
Reports on waterways improvement
have been submitted to congress by
Mai. General Lansing H. Beach, chief
of army engineers, on a number Of
projects of which his office has just
concluded surveys. In each case ap-
preparations were recommended. For
the Duwamish waterway, Seattle, Gen
eral Beach recommended a total ex.
penditure of $365.O0O. The Port
Orchard bay recommendation was
made for improvements to the extent
Of removing the shoal near Point
Glover in Richs Passage TO a depth
Of forty feet at mean low water at An
estimated cost of $4,000.