Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-04-02
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airy LOCdleu p ,oo WI oAA
sS3,12O over January. Net proflt
was $194,419.
Observation-Disclosures, tidelands and
other lands appraised at $345,795
will be sold at public auction in IL
county seats, April 7. Timber on
1000 acres is valued at $316,S76.
walla Walla-Cannerie at Walla
Walla, Dayton and Kennewick IN
creased their packs for 1885 almost
so per cent. over those for 1884. The
output was 1924 cases. Peas fur
nished the principal item processed.
Port Townsend-The state division
of mines and mining has requested
the chamber of commerce here to
submit 500 pounds of Olympia Pen
insula manganese ore for inspection
nv the United States bureau of mines
at Reno, New. Large bodies OF the
ore are available on the peninsula.
seattle-George Coury and his
wife started on a rush trip to the
hospital in the early hours from their
Mercer island home. A mile on the
way he ran out of gasoline. A delay
followed. Before they reached the
hospital, Mrs. Coury gave birth to
bow weighing 10 pounds IA ounces.
Kennewick- collections in the
county ranged from $4,000 to $8238
per day for the first Is days OF the
month, according to figures made
public by the county treasurer's OIL
flee. The Union Pacific railroad
company paid the largest amount,
their taxes amounting to $l6, 53S.50.
learwater-Frank Hidwal heard
his dog barking and glanced into his
pasture to see his herd had trebled
overnight. Fourteen elk quietly
grazed with his stock, needless OF the
barking dog and automobiles speed
ing by on thqe road not zoo feet
away. When the elk were satisfied
thew trotted back through the hole
they had broken in the fence to the
woods beyond.
Ocean City = An eight-inch-long
petrified foot was found by Jack
Crum of Copalis while digging in the
ocean sands here. The ankle bone
and most of the foot remained intact
in the stone. The stitching OF the
mocassin which covered it is imprint
ed on the rock and shows it was
formed of five pieces. Crum be-
lieved the pattern of the mocassin
would aid in determining the foot's
age.
Montesano - Approximately IA
mid-western Swiss farmers are plan
ming to settle in the upper Wynooche
valley, establish dairy farms and
cheese factory, it is reported here.
They are said to have bought a large
tract and made arrangements to have
a road built to it. They will bring
their own stock from Minnesota.
Lumber for the factory is said to
have been ordered and watts ordered
from California
OLYMPIA - The Interstate Tele-
phone company will reduce telephone
rates in the Wenatchee valley area
more than $4,000 a year, effective
April 1, the department of public
service announced. Subscribers in
Cashmere, Leavenworth, Chelan, En-
tiat. Waterville and Mansfield will
save $500 through new rates: of
$3.50 per month for wall phones,
S1.75 for desk sets and $1.90 for
hand sets. Rates for rural business
es will be from So to $3.50 per
month.
Seattle-The Pacific lumber in
spection bureau said lumber exports
from the northwest districts of Brit
ish Columbia. Willapa Harbor, Co.
lumbia river and Oregon coast
jumped more than 28,0OO,O00 feet
for February, 1886, as compared
with February year ago. Puget
Sound ports showed gain Of TO-
100000 in domestic shipments. The
Sounds foreign exports were cur
tailed nearly 100000 feet largely
through British preferential agree
ments, the bureau said.
Kelso-Seventy-fiv new logging
cars, which are being built for the
Weyerhaeuser Timber company at
a cost of about 100000 at the Pa
cific Car C Foundry plant at Renton,
will be used on the line of the Column
bia C Cowlitz railway, Weyerhaeus-
er subsidiary. which connects the
company's logging operations in
eastern Cowlitz county with the mills
in Longview. The company plans to
expand its logging operations and
needs the additional railway cars to
move the logs to the mills.
Grandview-John r. Young of the
Wesson sheep ranch, near Grand
view, reports that a six-year-old eve
dropped lamb and a half. The half
consisted only of the hindquarters