Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-05-21

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The timber will be brought down tina
Kalama river.
Revision of the Seattle city charter
made by commission Of Is is en
pected to go before the people in the
general election in November The
city council failed to act on pro
posal to submit the document at a
special election next month.
The Washington Single Mems as.
sociation, which met in Seattle, an
nounced a special meeting OF 20 lead
ing shingle mill operators of Oregon
and Washington in an effort to evolve
q sales campaign that will broaden
the market for their product
The contract TO surface AZ miles OF
the Ocean Beach Highway between
Longview and Coal Creek slough, grad
ed last year, was awarded by the state
highway board to the Olympic Con
struction company, whose bid was
$19,312 for the placing of $3.50 yards
of crushed rock.
Permission to add loop service"
taking in Winlock, Vader and 0lequa,
from Castle Rock, is sought in an ap.
plication filed with the department of
public works at Olympia by the Port
land, Centralia and Cowlitz Valley
truck line, operating over the inter
state route between Portland and Cen.
tralia.
Trucks carrying mail from Portland
postOffice to Pearson aviation field
at Vancouver, to connect with the air
mail service to be established soon by
the Pacific Air Transport company,
will not be charged toll on the inter.
state bridge, the interstate bridge com
mission decided at meeting i'll Van.
couver recently.
During the week ended May s, 107
mills reporting to the West Coast
Lumbermen's association manufactur,
cd 106.295,3s0 feet of lumer sold 49,,
945,S3S feet and shipped 123,321, Sl9
feet, as against 110,918,la4 feet manu-
featured by 109 mills the previous
week, 109, 10000 feet sold and 1885,.
l20,0O3 feet shipped.
Lewis county commissioners have
purchased ten-acre tract OF land q
mile and a half west of Eyaline school.
house, on which there Is large de.
post of stone suitable for road con,
structlon. A quarry Will be opened
and stone will be supplied for the new
macadam highway to be built between
Napavine and Wirlock
CONSTRUCTION Of concrete forms has
begun for the impounding dam Of the
5O0,000-gallon reservoir being built
in the hills north OF Montesano by the
Puget Sound Power & Light company
for the Montesano water system II
is expected that water viii be turned
In by June Is. The water supply viii
be about ~ times greater.
Probably the most valuable stretch
Of state highway in the northwest
perhaps in the nation, lies II miles
north OF Gle Elum. on the old Yellow.
stone trail. Where motorists once
sped over the highway, an electrically
operated dredge Is now tearing ur
the roadway and scooping up gravel
worth more than $1,000 day IN gold
All voters living in incorporated
towns in Washington must reglator
before August "a in order to be elIgi
BILE to vote In the primaries, September
Il, Clark County Auditor strickling
announced. Voters in country pro
cincts are not required TO register un
less they have moved since thsy regis
tered, two years ago, as country resi-
dents register every four Yeas.
ptAly'luhA HSNbltLHtHlb were lNAuH
with the holders OF tracts In the state
soldiers land settlement project at
White Bluffs and Hanford. at loss
TO the state OF s29g. 3b7.54. and with an.
other big loss to be taken June al
the public sale of the remaining 80
tracts, the land adjustment board Gro.
sted by act Of the special session Of
the legislature reported to Governor
Hartley.
More than 500 crates of strawberries
are being packed in barrels daily by
the Washington Growers Packing
corporation W. II. Wood. manager
said Tho berries are hulled, wished
and packed in sugar, 300 pounds OF
berries and 1850 pounds Of sugar Ia
the barrel The berries are thou placed
IN cold storage and shipped 20 jelly
lam and fruit Juice manufacturers al
over the United States
Onethlrd Of one OF the concrete
tubes which will form the undsrrfass
ing OF the Lonsyiew. Portland q NGrH
ern railroad tracks IN the hlghWfy
which will connect Langylew mud t1a
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