Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-08
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EVERETT.-Twelve of the larger
logging concerns in the county will
resume operations early in February.
LONGVIEW.-The Long-Bell ferry,
operating on the Columbia River be-
tween Longview, Wash, and Rainier,
Ore, carried 109,716 automobiles dur
ing last year. The greatest traffic was
in July, when 26.986 cars were taken
across the river.
Observation-Disclosures for clearing
1886 miles Of the Olympic Highway
in Jefferson and Grays Harbor coun-
ties were awarded recently by the
State Highway Committee, which
body recommended that the Federal
Bureau of Roads award a contract for
clearing an additional 9.3 miles of the
highway.
SEATTLE. - With $11,00O,OO0 in
vested and requests before the city
council for 100000 additional, cur
rent from the Skagit power project,
now long overdue, may not reach Sc
attic within the present year. Gross
negligence on the part Of the officials
In charge Of Skagit construction is
declared to be responsible. Blame for
the delay is laid at the feet of Carl
F. Uhden, chief Skagit engineer, who
in turn blames the contractors. Waste
of public funds is charged in the con-
struction OF the first, or Gorge, pow
er unit. To date this unit has cost
the city double the original estimate,
which was $4,839,OOO in bid submit
ted by Grant Smith G Co. in 1917 for
a 50,000-horsepower plant, with 100
foot concrete dam. This bid was re-
Jected and Uhden employed, who sub
mitted revised estimate of $780,
900. He assured the plant would be
completed in two years, or in 1920.
In November, 1919, report Of the
progress of the work was issued which
showed that the cost was then esti-
mated at s9,7OO,OO0 Figures today
indicate it will cost $16,OOO,000 to
complete.
DAVENPORT.-B Hurdstrom
junior in the Davenport high
school, headed the list o. the honor
roll for the first semester, with an
average of So per cent. Phyllis Will
son, senior, was second with 95A
per cent, and Hazel Rouse, a junior,
third with 94k per cent.
YAKIMA. - Acquiring five acres
south of the building, the agricultural
department of the high school OF
Yakima will put it in shape for gar
dening. D. r. Garfield, instructor in
agriculture, will supervise the work.
This is said to be the first venture of
its kind among high schools of the
state.
EPHRATA.-F'ive hundred ounces
of strychnine were purchased by
farmers living in Grant Orchards to
poison orchard mice. 1t has been
found that where the farmers go to-
gether and poison large tracts of land,
it is possible to reduce the damage
done by mice girdling the trees in
the winter.
KENT.-For the first time in thirty
years market gardeners of King
County are growing spinach in the
open this winter, due to the mild
weather that has prevailed This is
shown in the report sent yesterday
to the Bureau of Agricultural Econom-
les, United States Department of
Agriculture, by August Toellner,
crop reporter for this district
LONGVIEW. - Fourteen million
pounds of concrete and reinforcing
steel, which if placed end to end
would extend over distance of nine
ty miles, will be used in the fuel
house which is being constructed for
the Long-Bell Lumber Company's op-
erations in Longview. The building
will be ready by April 1.
AVON, FIDALGO ISLAND. = The
second white woman to make home
on Fidalgo Island, Skagit County, and
a resident of the state since 1871,
Mrs. Cynthia A. Bartholomew, aged
", died recently at her home in Sc
attic. Born in Madison County, In
diana, in 1916, Mrs. Bartholomew re-
moved to Seattle in 1872, and 16 years
later took up a homestead near Avon,
Washington.
OLYMPIA.-The gas sales for the
state of Washington in December,
1923, were 1O,30S,51O gallons, as com