Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-09-04

machinery will start soon. The mill
will cut about 100000 feet Of lumber
on an elght.hour shift.
Clyde Holeman, 15.yearold Boy
Scout Of Anacortes, Is on his way
to Tulsa, Okla, to receive medal
of valor from the Veterans OF Foreign
Wars at their 26th national conven.
ton. Clyde jumped into the cold
waters OF Puget sound last June and
rescued Billy Jason, 0.
J. J. McGowan. Pacific coast man.
ager at Seattle for the Royal Mail
Steam Packet company, states on the
basis of tour Of the three districts,
that the Yakima and Wenatchee val.
leys will harvest more apples than
last year and the Hood River valley
will show a decrease.
Filled with Jonathans from the
mammoth BakerLangdon orchard
near Walla Walla, the first carload
shipment Of apples Of the 1895 season
rolled out of Walla Walla Friday, one
week earlier than the first car last
year. Picking and packing is now
under way In all orchards.
Declaring that the Echo valley and
Big creek mining districts of Stevens
county, Washington, are among the
"finest undeveloped lead-silver dis.
trlcts In the world" was made at Spo.
kane by DR.. Herschel G. Parker, ex-
plorer and geologist, who has com.
pleted survey of the district.
James Monroe Sleicher Of Chehalis,
was elected grand commander of the
Grand Commandery, Knights Templar
of Washington In session at Olympia,
succeeding John Campbell of Seattle.
Following the installation of officers,
The Grand Commandery adjourned to
meet again in Yakima next May.
Sales by mills of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association again were
strong in the week ending August 90,
totaling 115.77S,150 feet, which com.
pared with 111,173,941 feet the week
before. The 112 reporting mills dur.
Ing the week manufactured 107,793,-
867 feet and shipped 110,S32.147 feet.
With total Of 32O,O3S pairs of
motor vehicle license plates issued up
to close of business Saturday, August
%, the record is 3O,46S ahead of the
total for the same time last year and
approximately $4,000 licenses ahead
of the total record for last year, as
shown by the report of Charles R.
Maybury, director Of licenses.
One woman was killed instantly
two others severely injured and 5.
yearold boy escaped unhurt when a
light coupe crashed through the rail-
Ing Of the Dry creek bridge, three
miles north Of Longmire springs in
Rainier national park, and fell Is feet
to the creek bed. Mrs. L. G. Vitous,
29, of Morton, driver of the automo.
bile, was instantly killed.
Indefinite postponement of the de-
velopment of the proposed Columbia
river basin reclamation project was
announced at the interior department
in Washington, d. G. The special
commission appointed by Secretary
Work to investigate the project ad-
vised him that the time had not ar
rived when local and national inter.
ests required the proposed construc.
tion and that the bureau Of reclama.
tion had not information or experience
needed to formulate a development
plan as costly and complex as the one
outlined"
Building of roads and bridge piers
and approaches mark activities of the
Weyerhaeuser Timber company pre-
paratory to the erection of large mills
on the Columbia river at Longview.
About 1900 feet of road adjoining the
Longview city limits and leading to
the mill site is being made by the Hart
Construction company Grading of
permanent highway No. II, county
road leading to the mill site, Is now
under way. Grading of between 1000
and $500 feet of roadbed for the com
pany's railway in Longview has been
completed.
Announcement of an agreement be-
tween the Chelan Water Users asso-
citation, the Chelan Electric company,
the Great Northern Railway and the
Washington Water Power company of
Spokane, relative to the use by the
Chelan Electric company of waters OF
Lake Chelan and the Chelan river for
power development purposes, was
made at the state hydraulic office In
Olympia. The Chelan Electric com.
pany Is to be allowed the entire flow
Of the lake and river, with the reserva.
tion to the surrounding land owners
Of as much water as may be neces
sary for irrigation, five months of the
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