Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1926-02-19

OuItdu Wub CTeHteu tp COHuuCt nu-
tion-wide lumber advertising cam.
pnign. A mass meeting OF lumber.
men voted sl,500,O0O for the campaign.
The Mccormick Lumber company,
which owns nearly l,000,000,000 feet
Of timber north and northeast OF Castle
Rock has completed arrangements for
the use OF the Silver Lake Railway &
Lumber company tracks extending
from the Cowlitz river south of Castle
Rock to Silver Lake In logging It's
timber.
Appointment of a committee of three
members Of the Washington Irrigation
institute to conduct an Independent in.
vestigation Of irrigation projects In
the state to determine what should be
the states reclamation policy, was
recommended by resolution adopted
IN the final session of the institute at
Yakima.
With 81 lawyers and over a hun.
dred property owners In attendance,
Charles ]. Bartholet, assistant super
visor Of hydraulics, sitting as referee,
opened the Walla Walla river and
tributary streamg water rights hearing
at Walla Walla. Assistant Attorney.
General B. B. Adams is representing
the state.
Final action in the purchase nego-
tiations for the Admiral. Oriental line
at Seattle was deferred for another
week when the shipping board con.
Cured In the report Of Captain Elmer
G. Crowley president of the fleet cor.
poration, rejecting the bid of R. Stan
ley Dollar, but directed Crowley to ask
Dollar for another bid II he cared to
submit one.
Two sea-going hopper dredges, built
within the past three years, will be
on the way to the northwest by early
March, according to telegram receiv.
ed at Grays Harbor from Congressman
Albert Johnson. The message said
that General Taylor, chief United
States engineer. had announced plans
for dispatching the dredges. One of
the dredges will be stationed perman-
emily on Grays' harbor and the other
will go to some other port Of the north
west.
Appraised valuation Of state land
and timber to be offered for sale at
public auction on March was an.
nounced as s172,33s31 by Clark v.
Savidge, state land commissioner. OF
the total amount, farm lands to be Of
fered are valued at sS2,710.S6; timber,
sS2,22S.05, and tidelands, $7402. 40. The
applications received show an unusual
demand for farm lands, Commissioner
Savidge pointed out. The timber to
be offered is located in King, Kitsap,
Lewis, Okanogan, Pacific, Pierce,
Slagit Thurston and Whatcom coun-
ties.
Mayor Brown, Chief of Police Sew.
eryns and Joseph T. Mason, inspector
of the police department of Seattle,
have Joined in letter to Thomas P.
Revelle, United States district attor-
ney. demanding that he transmit to
them any evidence he may have that
tends to connect Seattle policemen or
other city employees with the violation
of federal or state laws. The action of
the mayor and police heads followed
upon the testimony given recently in
the Olmsted liquor conspiracy trial by
the governments wire-tapping witness,
which implicated several officers and
mon of the police department.
A court battle for the valuable hy-
power site on the Cow
litz river at Mayfield and sites at other
points on that stream, with the
wealthy Sanderson G. Porter interests
Of New York. representing the Federal
Light a Traction company, on one
side, and the Backus- Brooks Paper
interests of Minneapolis, to
whom G. g. Garland's filing rights have
been assigned, on the other, is indicat-
ed by an appeal filed in Lewis county
superior court by Theodore B. Bruener
Of Aberdeen, on behalf of H. w. Crozier.
The Crozier appeal Is from the order
of R. X. Tiffany, state hydraulic engi-
neer, entered January 23, awarding the
water filings in question to C. c. Gar.
land and others, and asserts that the
Tiffany award injuriously affects the
rights of the appellant.
The Weyerhaeuser Timber company
will establish large lumber terminal
at Newark, N. j., next year to supply
that district with Pacific coast lum.
ber, George S. Long, general manager
Of the company, said at Tacoma.
Clark county Pomona grange, in ses.
sion at Orchards, approved resolu-
tion to install an agricultural and hor.
ticultural exhibit at the Pacific Inter-
national Livestock exhibition In Port