Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-09-24
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume OF Happenings
of the Week Collected for
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iy delivered Hale peaches here mea-
surfing II inches in circumference.
Kennewick - The harvesting of
Winesaps is destined to start soon.
The warm days and cool nights are
coloring them nicely.
Spokane-The new $3.50, 900 I'M
provement to separate traffic on the
Sunset and Inland Empire highways
was opened recently.
Olympia-The supreme court has
affirmed the King county decision
that the 40 mill tax law does not ex-
empt counties from paying their
share of delinquent taxes.
Pasco Il n e m have busted
themselves in the erection of new
poles and transformers to take care
Of the new electric business in the
Kahlotus region.
Sunnyside-Cheste Creek claims
to be in the running for the Yakima
valley production record. From $22.-
70 worth of seed, he received %
tons of potatoes which brought him
SAILS.
Sunnyside-The highest prices for
potatoes in ten years is being felt
here by offers up to $34 a ton for
U. S. No. is and many growers are
holding the crop for still higher fl
cures.
Walla Walla-The city ordinance
requiring that bicycles have lights at.
night is being enforced drastically
since the fatal accident to a small
girl cyclist. Fines have been assess
ed against offenders.
Pasco-The Northern Pacific Rail-
road company is enjoying it's best
season since 1922. An unusually good
fruit and vegetable crop and the
stimulus of numbering is said to be
the reason for the heavy traffic.
Yakima-That ''fee1 in the air.
and reports that there is frost at the
forest service stations gives impetus
to the hop picking in an effort to
complete the harvest before too cold
weather comes to damage the hops.
Observation-Disclosures improve
ments to the Blue Mountain high
way during the next few months is
planned by the state highway de-
partment as part of it's program to
complete the Blue Mountain high
mi 70 tWn
Pasco-The Charles Foster ranch
has produced a new variety of water
melon for this early district. The
melons-the Northern Sweet, ST.
berian variety-mature in about SO
days after planting enabling grow
ers to get them to market by about
June 1.
Seattle-Improved business condi-
lions resulted in an increase of 38
per cent in customs collections for
the fiscal period just ended as COM
pared with the 19341935 period &C
cording to the United States custom
office here" The district includes
most of Washington.
Spokane = Inland Empire grain
movements have 81 o W d down.
Strikes and fear of strikes is said to
have a bearing on this curtailment,
as perusal of the records show
that the decline comedies with the
strikes first in Minneapolis and then
in Portland and Astoria, Oregon.
Union - Residents Of Union on
Hood canal are complaining that the
American Automobile Association is
guilty of an oversight in not mark
ing in any place along the highway
between B + m er n and Shelton
where Union is or how to get there.
Union was one of the first commun-
tiles settled in Washington.
Yakima-CCC workers i'm the All
tanum district have completed their
season with the creation of eight
small dams across the end of small
valleys in order to create pools to
store water to slow down erosion.
They have also completed rs miles
of contour burrows and the planting
of over 10000 Seeding trees.