Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-03-27

public land in eastern Washington to
the extent Of 94O,554 acres will be
jurisdictoned to the charge of the
Spokane office. Tho land office at
Vancouver also will be closed at that
time.
II. c. Lane, government entcmo.
logist sent to Yakima to investigate
the wire worm, has been given two
assistants, and a program of inquiry
extending over six years has been
mapped out in the effort to control
the pest.
In the first two weeks of March
mills of the West Coast Lumbermens s
association sold considerably more
lumber than they produced. The re-
port for the week ending March IA
showed sales of 07,341 sos feet, com.
pared with manufacture of O4,O39,-
$40 feet.
Thirty-eight settlers on the state
soldiers settlement project in Wash
ington, taking exception to adverse
criticism Of the project said to have
been made by minority OF those set
tied thereon, have issued a statement
in which they declared conditions
were satisfactory.
w. H. Galligan, owner of straw
berry ranch at Hood, reports that his
plants are blooming. The ranch is
located in protected cove on the
Washington side of the Columbia can
yon, and, barring frosts, Mr.. Galiigan
said he expected to pick ripe straw
berries by May 1.
An international commission was
created to preserve salmon from ex-
tinction in the north Pacific by trea-
ties and uniform laws at an official
conference at Seattle representing
British Columbia, Washington Oregon,
California, the United States and the
Dominion of Canada.
With the virtual completion of the
Alfred H. Anderson memorial forestry
building on the University of Wash
ington campus, the college of forestry
has the finest buildings and equip
ment of any forestry school in the
United States, according to members
of the forestry faculty.
The hiring of new school super
intendent or principal must be left to
the new board of school directors each
year, instead Of being contracted for
by the old board, the same as pro
vided by statute for teachers, was the
opinion rendered by Attorney-General
Dunbar to George o. Beardsley, prose-
cutting attorney of Benton county.
The Washington-Oregon Linen Mills
company plant will be turning out flax
yarn at Vancouver by June and will
employ 1000 persons within two years
according to f. ]. Gilbraith, who will
return east in few days to hurry
shipment of 81 carloads of machinery
for the plant to be located in the plate
shop of the Standifer steel shipyard.
The work of Matching game birds
at the state game farm on the Steil-
accom- asylum grounds will be under
way within two weeks. The wild
birds that fill scores of pens at the
farm will begin laying about March
25. Last summer the game farm at
one time had 10000 wild birds, but
there are only about one-fifth OF that
number on the farm now.
The 1925 spot wool season in the
northwest has opened in the Yakima
district. There was much buying on
contract earlier in the year, but the
first shorn wools are now coming on
the market The initial sale of Yak
ina woods was by Coffin Bros, who
disposed of 125,0OO pounds to the N.
l.. Robinson Wool company. The price
paid was not made public.
Although an appropriation was
made by the last congress for begin.
ming construction on the Kittitas ir.
rigation project in Washington, the
matter is likely to be held In allegiance
until the approval of the secretary of
the interior and Commissioner Mead
of the reclamation bureau, some time
in August. 1t is understood that Sec
retary Wurk and Commissioner Mead
desire to inspect the project before
work is started
Competition was keen in the first
opening Of state highway bids OF the
season by the highway committee at
Olympia, two contracts being award
ed as follows: Pacific highway, paw.
ing 81 miles between Chehalis and
Centralia in Lewis county, awarded
to Philbrick and Nicholson Of Tacoma
for S03,6O7,22; Pacific highway, grad
ing of nine.tenths mile from Everett
porth, lei to Joseph Weeks of Kirk
land, for 35,92120. Next opening OF
bids Ill bp March ~