Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-02-06
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Briet Resume Of Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers

Ritzville-Governo Martin advo-
Gates immediate completion of the
east-west highway link between Ell
lensburg and Ritzville and on to the
Idaho line.
Wilbur is having another
epidemic of chain letters, but the
housewives are the only ones bitten
this time. A chain letter for tea
towels is in full swing.
Yakima-An additional; allotment
of $113,440 for pest control in 10
central Washington counties was re-
ceived here at the WPA office by AS
sistant District Director G.. r. Young.
An allotment Of $40, 1000 was received
last week.
Walla Walla-It is estimated here
that the soldiers bonus will release
$1,717,356 in six southeastern Wash
ington and northeastern Oregon
counties tributary to Walla Walla.
Walla Walla county will benefit an
estimated ,s619,956; Umatilla, Ore,
s528,994.
Wenatchee-A resolution demand
ing that local labor be used on the
Knapp's Hill road relocation job was
adopted by the county commissioners,
after hearing charges from organized
labor that the Elliott Company. Inc,
was attempting to "fire" county resi-
dents to bring in its own crew.
Olympia - Gasoline sales during
1885 exceeded by 2,44O,618 gallons
those of any 12-month period in the
previous five years, the director of
licenses states. The 1885 total sold
in Washington was 273,607,248 gal
Ions, compared with 271,166,630 in
1880, the second largest year. and
260,777,849 gallons in 1884.
Palouse-A dividend from the de-
funct Farmers State bank here will
be mailed depositors Friday and Sat
urday, c. E. Johnson, st. John. liquid
ator, advises. The dividend will
amount to is per cent, or $6842.
Thus far, in the three years the bank
has been closed, 80 per cent. of the
deposits have been returned to de-
positors. An early wind-up of the
liquidation is expected.
Chelan ~ County Engineer Black
and Jack Keegan, a mine operator,
are trying to settle claim of Kee-
gan's that Chelan county has stolen
from 1900 to 1000 cubic yards Of
road material from the Wenatchee
gold mine on the lower Squilchuck
road. The county wants to settle at
five cents a yard, but Keegan claims
there is gold in the material and that
the county should pay on the basis st
commercial ore value.
Hoquiam-FYr and cedar trees cut
As years ago when the Grays Harbor
City townsite was being cleared, are
now going to market, as sound as ey--
er, 1oggers said. A small logging OUT
fit is harvesting the ancient cutting
where city jewellers once had visions
of a great metropolis. The trees
were cut and some burned to make
way for city streets and for buildings,
but the boom collapsed and the trees
, were left where they fell.
Montesano - Drilling operations
are expected to begin in about
month to deepen the Forks test oil
well to the 3350-foot level, it is an
nounced by A. Emerson Cross of Abb
erdeen, attorney for the Superior Gas
& Oil company of Seattle. This con-
Germ has made an agreement with the
Fosks Oil company and the Vincent
interests of Louisiana, who were for
merly interested in the well, which is
now down 1850 feet. 1t is hoped to
bring in a paying gas well and then
drill for oil more nearly on the cen
ter of the structure. ja