The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1916, Page 15

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 9, 1916. “| H. Youn Commissioner of L: £J.W. Brislawn *: : P da mes Allen. # *« Tax Commission. ) Commission. pushels of wheat the present 9) eeeetitioneeneen BY HAMILTON HIGDAY { sy n of new harbor tm hing and drayage p a (Secretary Port of Seattle Com- 5 . ost of 36,00 iniform flat rate to a ratiwe 5 . ; sold the land to private individuals mission) Terminals Play Big Part all steamships and all warehouse public waterside ware or else leased it at low rates for Am yasting indost 1 plants » Seattle | ho 8, concrete, sprinkler protect & terms of years. he state re- its Seattie, In common with oth- bartering of Thirteen public terminal un Jed, with the unheardof insurance - iroperey “ne Cla aatipilas, pret gto, sned the antic. have been construéted under the [rate of 25 cents per $100 per year 2 ich the government sold changeo Ti tha quads aaa “11 sa general plan mentioned as fol 4 | Before. ideal paces ict ‘depdelt for ow as $100 a lot is now worth, anges in y 1 ae \ 5 the annual flood of Alaska canned as much as $30,000. It cost aps S 3 ‘ com. | !ows neentr Seattle aracter of shipping after the salmon conce ated at Seattl proximately 10 cents a square fook co i Amerl- " gs thru 8 . the Smith's cove, lumber, heavy “ pee Pn complet en of she grect mer ; Fass oie ’ Pe lather fe! Sey eoh pet re from the far flung cannerte to make the f The waterways Om cries pea ths ante develop ome é a etties rey proted AD sp aig dai lal: aN { ther side of the island are from ee and swiftly handled »| 2. Bell street public wharf and t ne > to 50 feet below the iatiaam ment undertaken to enable Se ” nd} ublicly owned and operated w as liow tide, wh is deep enough to attle to outstrip her rivals in D terminals built port | transit sheds houses last year, the Bell street a ion in the ree| 3. Bell street concrete ware. , Pye : } Harb 1 it of Se- |admit the largest vessels afl the building up of water com. mission i th th 3. Bell treet oncret are 1 ishels of appl tnd Whatoom avenue’ dutiding | arbor island, a bit of Se. The ¢ aie 1,000 tone vee ant TI © predicted crop for the state of Washington for this . Port of Seattle district in Sep- As a result, Seattle ts the gate-| 4. Stacy-Lander wharves and he departmen srtoulture in its latest, moist crop Fes of canned salmon, the port com-| land, was a sloppy, floteam- |oontract awarded be the state Ak to the new i ed © ansit sh stin 2 < apple harvest will fill 2,659,000 barrels ‘ 4 aes nl, Ar tember, 1911 i red em.- | transi E apple harvest wi mission has und way a pub washed bit of worthless tide (bin says the island is the smallest. only Seattle, but all of King Il never go back to the | warehouse. ‘ r tate produced 7,299,000 bush va lat $ of the Bast water to acc ipunty Bonds for terminal d roundabout rc 6. Hanford street ’ a r f rable ure this anticipated increase will offset the ; r ae ple, former territorial governor, __ Big Interests There Now were authorized Six Terminal Groups transit shed 4 n the Juction of wheat : Alaska halibut and supply the ice| propoedd the plan ef #illing-in The original contract called for a one ort comr ion has cre rd street p grain . er stimates that the wheat fields of Washingt : * to the extent of $5,950,000 rt commission } reat ford street ¢ go fir “ at the w f : : “yr Peron [necessary for express shipment t 1,100 acres of this property and fats between King st. and S. Park Two public ferr in 1 great terimir I will t ear yield 3,000 bushels--not such a wee bit, at tha Spe 1 ats ee 8 s. wo publ erry systems reshed 60,494,000 boat or rai making a manufacturing dis- ave, The work is tically come » I of them have be sh ushels, worth $41,324,000. ope ; trict. pleted. More than per cent of ington, respectively, have also All t worth $41,32 erisbab is thru cold stora . provided at a cost of |f apacity 1 8 soon as sokane street public fruit predicted that the price of this year's wheat will be 84 cents.|{, a rapidly growing practice, the Seattle had no level lands |the reclaimed land is plotted in city st three years 4 Spokane street terminal 0, Spokane street public fish t agriculture for August, for this state, Bpokshe street a sevenstory cor close to tide water, which are “The land now includes such buses] progress has ? 1 street terminal Id storage plant Estimated] crete warehouse, ins luted and, mecessary to a successful port jiness as the Sears-Roebuck builds construction of| 3. § y street term: Salmon bay wharf, net ware Product 1915 Crop. 1916 Crop. | soon to be refrigerated for the +S ts ees | street. term rouse and fishing boat moorage. Wheat buehel 50,494,000 13 Panssllothant of $00 eats ict. 6 Semple’s dream provided for |PUblic grain terminals and elevas = water front im 5. 8 h's cove termina | Elliott bay ferry land-| Hay, tons eedes 769,000 ples, also at Bell street everything the city ed, And tors, and a vast number of ship. proved by the | L i canal 7 Washington ferry and Oats. busbhe ; 0,006 13,013,000 | has t r aan a * the realization of that dream. cerns, % 7 j 8.736.000 sien ied Ba Work Begun in 1904 The eventual value of the filled. New Labor Mandard Set nkler protected pliers o e port commission's plan of | parley, bushels 263,0 6,845, and juices and vegetable This flat expanse of land at th section of Seattle je: {neva t 978,06 south end of Elliott. bay, bordered 824 I wou hate to attempt at mdarde. of exe and|r c mmer age 1 mmodious water front | Rye, bu 146,000 02,000 | ability of water front cold storage |DY tWo deep waterways, was start jy ing ? : shosdeere : ers » largest yleld of wheat reported this year in the United States - fom the: West Vanes p Aig’ the THESE KIDS LIKE the fe dock protection of rods Cae par neracle 18 ‘cree {18 Ws 4 | lots on the west side of the islanc rhe warehou t but spectalized factlitie x eat halal oui aora the € puthett to the ‘ ulso been constructed. to | Skagit county, the yield ts 183 bushels per r vi . sf Wash t insurance rates articular great commod $ ) SPARTA, Wis, Sept, 9.—Dog hind the project, awarding the con-} nee De P x s bushels per acre, from four acres in Yakima county : edison Gack te the Seattio-Lake Waching| BAYONNE, WN. J., Sept. 9.—-Ieaa 6 for water front: ait All th © doe v Jotable among these cial fa-!lumber, steel ils, railroad | vator for such purpose on the Pa-| mer found his pet 1 ead recent:| was the first president of most of the babies*in Bayonne’s == w trac Smith's cove, half a mile At the opposite end of Elifott|fact that the state of Washington |the dog with appropriate service a until v ’ 0 S| fare station announced today a vige 7) sion expects will one 7 in width, solid filled bay, a ¢ ete elevator of 500,000 alone produced 50,000,000 ‘bushels| A few days later Hammer was fil ‘ t t campaign to prevent mothers s singularl rtunate e lit ogether in a publicland served with g antry and! bushels capacity r the storage |of wheat in 1916, This elevator,| mildly surprised to see Tige cor ret pany, sa starting the beer diet immediately that under the spur of the slogan,|belt Ine, com, ly circling the | locomotive #, 100-ton shear |and transshipment of bulk grain at| with the adjacent twostory wharf |ing wagging his tail, and is at a loss| Worth “$30,000 an Acre jafter weaning. The practice, 1% . merc yea house and cold storage 5 A attle’s m xpensive harbor SN ee areca otra ; 5 In conjunc with the housin le’ spctlibeais, Sete In commenting on the original h istric co f Siberia. This trade now Whatcom avenue concrete |; i ake: fish storage . » sout The district embraces not | fish storage plant +t the south e land in 1894, when Eugene Sam- modate 2,000,000 pe tres mprovement . the reclaiming of all of the tide Elliott bay and Lake Wash- | public harbor utilities on the Spokane wharf and tran t 9,000 bu les a in 1916, when we th Recognizing the conversation ¢ ysically completed, viz ¢ storage warehouse. ollowing figures are taken from the crop report of the depart-| jort commission has provided. at suitable for railroad facilities, reets. i of entry. ing, Stetson-Post Lumber Co., the.) 000 the port r terminal—on | { Apples, bust 99,000. 10,636,000 | storage plant of 200 cars capacity /Harbor island is simply a small bit /Duilding and manufacturing consi na cludes ' 7 Potatoes, : e facilities erected have set hich bh 1 ed three r includes not only mod son: bit . Pate 5 rating efficiency and 8 Corn trating i nd r placing a hasty valuation on it,” ce in easels t 1 " € supported by adjacent | peaches , 566,000 178,000 | facilities ed in 1904, The sand was dredged otection ; d county, Washington r later work was begun hiv state also reported the largest yield of oats, On 8.5 acres in| side of the island. PLENTY OF SUDS The second largest yield of white potatoes in the United States is Pata = ig ai eto both rall and h the Pacific Northwest Abikes _|days sure are h the Paciti ‘ , pig Hela st tad haha, Ham.|ton Waterway Co., of which Sample |not milk—is the standard beverage nd that 1 alue lanke y public raf ies is the great transshipment equipment and the | jcifie Coast, notwithstanding the|ly and hired George Abbott to bury Vork was . ed) on the} foreign quarter. The Child Wels “Prepare for Panam she author-|water front, giving impartial | log derrick for the handling of |tidewater 1s the first modern ele-|shed, has accommodated 700,000] to explain. i he government immediately] was said, was almost walvorsal.