The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-13
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| SEATTLE
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, 5412c: hard winter, west
ern red and northern spring,
5411c; bluestem, 61hc.
Butterfat,-17c.
Eggs Ranch, 16 a Tic.
Hogs Good to choice, $3.50 @
Ais.
Cattle Choice steers, $5.25 @
SIS.
Sheep Spring lambs, $4.75 @
5.25.
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, &c; soft white and
western white, 54kc; hard VIM
ter, northern spring and west
ern red, 5I1ac.
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $500.
Butterfat-14 @ 15c.
Eggs Ranch, Is a Ice.
Cattle Steers, good, $3.50 %
5.85.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 q
4.35.
Lambs Good to choice. s5.25 q
5.65.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $500 a
$50.
Hogs - Good to choice. s3.S5 q
400.
Lambs ~ Medium to good. s4.75
@ 5.25.
A resolution has been introduced
in the city council of Spokane call
ing for a reduction in city salaries
of 10 per cent, effective April l.
It is estimated that the reduction
for the remaining nine months of
the year would total $4,000. If
adopted this will be the second
cut during the depression. The
first cut, of 10 per cent was last
July. It amounted to $4,000 an
nually.
Assessor J. F. Engle has COM
piled figures showing that about
$4,000 will be saved to farmers
in Asotin county this year by the
new law exempting farm crops
from taxation. 1t is estimated that
there are $4,000 bushels Of
wheat in storage in the county.
Crops produced prior to 1892 are
subject to the usual tax.
Affirming Snohomish county
court judgment, the state supreme
court has upheld organized la
boris policy of making public So
called unfair lists of employers
who refuse to abide by union
rules. The pursuit of such policy
concerns only the unions and their
members, the high court held.
With rising temperatures the
asparagus cutting season in the
Kennewick region has been gain
ing force and large market ship
ments are beginning to roll from
produce houses here. Farmers are
optimistic, with an opening price
of $3.50 a 12-pound crate, which
is higher than last season.
Shearing Of thousands of sheep
has started in Benton county, and
large crews of men are engaged.
AS the shearing gets into full
swing, crews will be increased and
wool shipments will follow. The
yield this year was said to be
heavy and the wool of long. good
quality.
Plenty of water seems assured
for the Okanogan irrigation dis
trict this season, as reports come
from the watershed that more
than two inches Of precipitation
have fallen in snow, the last
month. Snowfall the last winter
was greater than for some seasons.
The Property Owners associa-
ton of Seattle will make an effort
to get an initiative measure before
the voters to give cities larger
share of the gasoline tax. King.
Pierce and Spokane counties pay
1876 per cent of the tax and re-
ceive only a small return.
The Asotin county chapter Of
the United Farmers league has
adopted resolution condemning
the recent session Of the legisla-
ture for appropriating % per cent
more than the previous legislature
and for not making provision for
the unemployed.
Rail carriers are looking for a
normal movement of sheep from
west of Spokane to the summer
ranges in the Pend Oreille lake
country and the mountains of
Western Montana, it is indicated
folIowinp conferences with flock.