The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1923, Page 16

a j i j | q ' i Good Times Will Last Thru Hh ts 1 | F 000,000. PAGE 16 THE SEATTLE STAR THU RSDAY, MARCH 29, 1923. SEATTLE BUSINESS—Finance, Produce, Shipping, Real Estate, Building Year, Says Actuary $800,000, Formed; T WASHINGTON lay, in every way iter and better | Take this from J MoCoy fare of the United States treasury h Pad it is to look into the fu. Pure Ghd predict what's going to hap he to the nation’s business for the And guidance of the tax fram ora in congress > “We are going to the bes Since the war boom,” says Me The wave of prosperity that Tast fall wil! continue thruout nd we can look forward to Jobs and better times & BUYING PRE CARS Veteran actuary’s at Mncanny. When t law was being drafted, That the tax would produce 900,000 9 annually and later, when the first collectic made, they amounted to $ ABERDEEN, Wash Ore tion of the ery Lumber & March 29. Donovan-Cork Logging ©o, with a March 29.—Every times are getting of the of all the stock Coats-Fordney means the transfer of timber and a t was an the made nd pr log billion ng road ed Wednesday deal sperty logx ulpmea’ it eve nounc gest lumber Harbor county uring tat the Donovan-Corkery will cut $00,000,000 feet of tim a year entire timber trolled ing will be oar on the ie exces — WALL STREET tk, March 39. JOURN The « two ‘ the 1% per cont re bank here effectually act at reat the garding the took. Bt eflecting the relic over the an Immediate market factors. Steel common ga to 2 to 124, and American Inte aioala Marland Oil was the oatata tapid Transit an Can, Arucks Psinclatr + New Marland Have ph rican Ly °F said times are ¢ here are some figur "continued McCoy @ sheaf of January lied Ameri autos here ing more commercial vehicles as shown by our ° which were unary this year 7.000 in January of “And remember tho > hasn't been changed. fof autos have fallen OF LUXURIES nen . Indication, tho, is the in In sales of auto accessor because a motorist doesn't his money for fancy spot! dull on the Chicago board of ted knick-knacks, unless he's | ¢ and’ erala. pe ME pretty prosperous. Yet, these |as a result increased from By 751 ‘January. 1922, to $3,243,000 in wary, 1923.55 } fea from sales of jewelry, altho is slow to r * to changing climbed from $3,614,000 $35,000.) Amusement tax @ecended from $6,453,000 an but auto tax pleasure | phone ane. ‘1 q ew exas Company Sugar, 79%, up % o%. up GRAIN TRADING HAS DULL DAY CHICAGO, Mareh 18.—Tr de was trade jouble turda dvices Me 6X= wheat situation by fall, from New York exporters porter said he had o ter wheat for sale aroused little Intere pected to see Russian wheat market by autumn. Coupled this depr that er favorah in with to conditions were genera Heavy corn receipts ¢ on the Chicago market weak f thru grains. About ¢ feported bought hicago. Twenty #t tax collections grew from F17,000 to $16,050,000," McCoy Hnued. “This is not due so much Therease in cigaret smokers as to the fact that a man feeling . will light fresh cigarets @nd throw used ones away) F. One of those tittle straws | how which way the a ia | is the sale of cigar holders A man in need of money [Go without a cigar holder or| P his old pipe last until better | Taxes on the sale of these | d from $22,000 to sana Come ETHIS TO *% WATERHOUSE =. May port at the gulf, ters this was b on previous sales was light, Oats trade was dull and lesa, generally reflecting tion of other grains Provisions declined. Chicago Round of Trade "s Quotations Open High Low 29% 91.20% Lae 16M Lisle 118% aly Lille Liew the pos | wear “lowe Ma: ry 1 1 July. Bept. 115% Luis 74% 1% 2 1%. x Abs “ay an Px, has discovered that S Garber shop ix the one fo which all visiting “headed admitted. to The Nation's Bust. |7"ii."° vail the barbers of Lebanon, | May... s were recently invited to a/July. @iven by the Chamber of ree. | Re invitations were extended in} cw “Belief that the barbers have a| No. At opportunity to give visit. | $}2 JM favorable impression of the} tat many barter shops are of public discussion where I questions are freely} and that the barbers should | & true conception of the city’ aly local | business |. bare May July it + ie 11.70 19 Nominal 10.65 10.65 Cash Wheat March 21. $1206 O12, 10,47 5 ae Car Lots Wednrsday’s Quotations Furnished by Logan & Bryan B10 Second Ave, Seattle Grain— Recta Cont, Kecd. Lt re. Wheat 1° a8 40 mt with an ‘understanding | Cor 148 a ‘part taken by the Gonber | Ras. in the general prog. ” gs “ » satiated, jeft ever, 11,417. 11,008. invitations made {1 plain that | Festi Cattle, Was not in any way a tO promote the chamber’s ship or influence. The bar-| “an entirely mew point of Fon their opportunities for serv. ‘the city, Foreign Exchange y March 38.—¥o irregular. i" 8%; franc $0.0062%4; lire, $0.0493%4; and have actually | marks, 20,433 to the dollar, closed lower. ster. Speorniies. A lire, $0.0405; marks, 20,942 to the dollar. Portland Produce | Kgus—24@ 260 dos, | Mearoaie es Ib, | Mee—ti@ 30 financial Flashes dames Macfarlane 2 Co. 811 Second Ave. ® N. Y. Shows aaa Coffee m of 10 cents per barrel | Sugar—Quiet. Raw, §7.16@7.38; refined, gover heavy crude, effective | dull: granulated, $8760 28. | Cotfee— ‘0. 7 Rio spot, 1313 Ke Ib.; No. ‘ t Santos, 15916%e | it Northern gross earnings | d week of March showed gain of | | Increase since January 1.| | mings Febru increase mty industrials 103.03, up .37; $7.71, up .02. Rdard Oil of Louisana has post- BANK CLEARING Pacific i gros $6,334,900; Seattle Clearings .... | Balances ° -$5,160,575.55 cece 1,616,994.82 Portland | Clearings «+. +++» 4,736,274.32 || Balances ...., 903,097.05 | Tacoma | Total transactions ., 2,540,000, a Business Changes | SN a | Schwager Garland Lumber com- pany haye moved from 445 Henry building to 6546 White-Henry-Stuart building, bash earnings February, gross 10,494; increase $78,373, | imore & Ohio earnings for! bruary show increase of $3,385,- ey ye | } Nels 000 against $1,834,000 year ago, York Central declared regu- quarterly dividends 1% per payable May 1; record April 6, Hee received m of Value of common stock from 0 to $25, and increase in com. lock by $42,500,000 mm Hallway lines Fant and / earnings third week March increase of $597,080; from FY 1, Increase $6,620,274, John McMaster Shingle company have moved from 756 Stuart building to 4444-46 White-Honry-Stuart build. REALTY FIRM OPENS OFFICE Johnson Company, /Realtors, is a new firm that has opened offices in the Douglas building for the general realty business, Arthur D. Johnson, an exporlenced relator, is general Manager of the company, Associated with the new company are N, J. Brown, insurance; It. D, Cheney, hotel leases; A, G, Clark, lands; W. B. Cole, timber and milly B.C. Hodge, apartment leases; A. 1. Hughes, residences and lota; FA. Root, business opportunities; W. A. Whitlow, income properties, and A. W. Decker, stocks and bonds, "T have implicit faith in Seattle,” sald Johneon, Wednesday, ind 1 predict that 1923 In to be one of t best yours tho city Las ever seen, page the of goods while thoy are on ir Way from seller to buyer, pre- their receipt by the buyer. BE Ms a legal right used under umstances that would justify 1¢ oiler in breaking his contract It {# genorhily resorted to the seller, after shipping learns of # serious impair: in the buyer's credit, no that ction of the prico would bo eult If the Foods were delivered, it oar whortage on March 14 74442, decreane of 4,828 from Donovan-C orkery CG ompany, al of $800,000 and the purchase bie | injir, F ady t t pt at the de factor in the | ng feature waa the fact | shee) 19,000. | —%) 2 | | TAXES SHOW Hi uge Timber M erger in With ¢ ransfer Big Holdings ried on ) The by it for Donovan-Corkery Co been organized, the |dation of the Donovan Lumber Co the Corkery Brothers Co. and the |Carison-Callow Lumber Co. William Sr. ts president; William president and man A. W. Callow, » Carlson, Willam De M. MoCready and the named will the board The Corkery brothers operated on the east branch the Humptulips as the Branch Logging Co. a 2h-year period which consol Donovan |Corkery, vice Jager, and retary Gua oven ot ficerm be of j dir |hav jor tors. river AL. FUNANCIAL REVIEW has rked £ to spward edlacbunt peculativ ke fin rate by federal ani on apprehe nh the early dea mination of this quest epurting to a new record high United States Bteel, 107%, up 96%, up te; American Tele Btuedbaker, 134, up Cuba Pan-American, 1h aff % Weatern, 112, off \) America 134%, Up 1) Gui Slates Steel N.Y. Stoch Market Amer Amer Ateni Dupe: eneral Clears . Int Lae Ma Consolidated Petroleum 1% yivania + tthe pies Gee eS | Pere Marquette 2% | Pitevars & W ae itteburg Coal Pure Ou ding. . Rem, Typewriter | Hoek tana do B } Duteh N. ¥ Sinclair Consotidated t Warner aker Corp ity Ot neaeee Copper ris Thy » Ve i on +, i’ * us un u 6% & Rubber do pt Worthington Pump | w Foreign Securities Wednesday's Quotations Fernished by Logan & Dryae B10 Hecond Ave, Seattle Btocks- Dia Bigs, 1921 a 1936 ise arena 14 ius 3 Russian $49 “ 66 a aN u French 49, Fren | Britis Munich be Frankfort 4s Japanese Japaneas ist (ie... Japanese Ind 449 . Italian Se .,. ies vee F oreign Money Status Inesday’s Quotations Furnished by Logan & Uryan Hecond Ave., Gentile ne value Present valve . lal nee Canadian... «French franc... Helgian yah bi ipsa lira Swedish Krona «ee Danish krone. Liberty Bonds reer aces ‘wen! 7 Logan Bryan 810 Becond Ave,, Heattle Beries— lew First 40 Hecond 4 First 44s Hecond 44a. Third 4% Fourth 4 ‘ 16.00 ots. 96.30 160.01 er 96,2 100,01 9.24 109,00 ona Denver Live Stock Wednesday's Quotations Cattle—Roceipts strong. Ateor $4.50012.75, Market 10@150 $1.68 BT Hogs—Receipts lower. Top, Sheep—fe to atrong $4,608.25; San Francisco Produce Wednesday Botter—Vixtras, 400 Ib; prime firate, 60 Th e—Fxtras, 200 dow; extra pullete, 266 dor: undersized pullete, 21%0 do Cheene—Californin fancy, 2440 Ib Canada Wheat and Papef Show Gains MONTRAL, March 29.—1xporta of wheat flour from Cannda in the month of December Jast amount to 14 51 barrels, which ts the largest monthly total fn the history of the industry, MONTREAL, March 29,—iguron on the pulp and paper industry of Canada during the six montha end. Ing December $1 show considerable Increase over thow for the corre. sponding nine months of 1921, “pa neeranre meni asm yesernyesnetn eee we} PORT PLANNING Ail PROSPERITY Grays Harbor Announced 8G CONVEYORS Capital Of) p tomatic Cargo Handling California Products Are Be- Roger W. Machine on Trial Another attraction ships to has the ot t by been added port ¢ adoption Beattie port « gram for installing auto handling devices at port companies facilitien ° mmission Wednes romiasion pinals the day by of ay matic docks. The new telescopic cargo con ing approximately $3. given a trial, and if success be installed all port wharves and at ware veyor, cont 500, in to ful, will comminsion hor This store cargo with twlee on handle hips to of a to comm machine will from the speed wharves ng vf atevedores lor ators: Wednend ned Sted over “|OFFICES MAY BE COMBINEI Ml traffic p of buy Traffic ri a recommendatt and solicits mimte romotion nenm by the port 1 be in the hands NY sbenit Wed in Manaue ted to the commins! lay Traffic inder the super Muirhead. Following his re it was placed under the super jon of the executive accretary ¢ port commission. A saving of $1,000 a year effected by the consolidat raftic engineeri the according to commimon findings Wednesday The engineers will be with the traffic brane rooms now occupied be rented for $1,000 : HIGH LUMBER PRODUCTION Mills Report Increase for Past Week dred and th ne to Weat men's association for }March 24, manufactured 106,611,362 | feet of lumber; sold 109,522,491 foot, and shipped 120,098,369 feet Production for reporting mills was 16 per cent above normal, New bust- noms wae 4 per cent above produc tion. Shipments were 10 per cent above new business, Forty-one per cent of all new bust ness taken during the week was future water delivery od to 44,626,220 feet, of which 266 feet was for domestic cargo de livery, and 18,680,064 feet for export New business for delivery by rail amounted to 1,980 cara. Thirty-five per cent of the week's lumber, ship- ments moved by water. Unfilled domestic tal 149,848,109 fect. Unfilled export orders, 92,561,991 fect. Unfilled rail trade orders, 9,492 cara. | In the first 12 weeks of the year, | production of West Coast Lumber- ne nen promotic vinion of Maj 1 be of of and De port commiss and them ty-elght mills Const Lumber men’s association mills has been 1,-| 091,961,785 feet; new business 1 729,177 feet, and shipments, 1,295,- 578,801 feet. "| Southern. Pine Is Fast Diminishing | WASHINGTON, March 29. Jing rapidly and unieas reproduction |is practiced a large part of the |pine woods will disappear much jeariier than {s now eatimated, Sen jator McNary, Oregon, chairman of |the senate committes |tlon, eaid today on the return of he committee from an investigating trip of the Southern states. The Southerners are aroused over the situation, he aid, and are de termined to co-operate with the fed Jeral government In some national |plan of reforestation that will in ure @ productive crop for all time. Money Rises With Tide, Says Captain When the sea rises on the coast of Chile In South America, the Chil. ean dollar, or peso, drops in value, according to Capt. Louls Larson, veteran seaman, who is now in Se ve after a trip to South America nm there is a tidal wave, the value of money falls, and when the water recedes and the damage in re. paired money rises Capt, Larson, who was in the midst of the earthquake and tidal waves at Iquique last November, Pigott Will Go to NEW ORLEANS, La, March 29.— William Pigott, of the William Pigott Iron and Steel Co,, of Seattle, has ro- served rooms in New Orleans for the Tenth Annual National Foreign ‘Trade convention, to be held May 2.3- 4, and the opening of the industrial canal connecting the Miasiasipp! riv- er and Lake Pontchartrain, Piggott will be among approxtmate- ly 2,000 delegates expected to attend the convention, Lang Company Plans Expansion of Plant 8. Lang Manufacturing Co, Lilie in mind an expansion dur ing the near future, has purchased the lot adjoining thelr factory on Wrst ave, 8. from the Galr Realty c Mra, BD. F, Aweeney, who la proat. dent of the Gair Realty Co,, ts rep. resented by Henry Broderick, In and the F. 8. Long Manufacturing Co, being reprosented by Carter, MacDonald & Miller, Ine, ‘The prop: orty has been held at a prive of $12,000, WY and the week ending | cargo orders to- | on reforeata-| Trade Convention | ~ LOCAL PRODUCE. V IS INCREASING ing Crowded Out ‘0 changes on the butte reorted ‘Thurs Butter in atild and exes steady and produce show and day b firm Jobbers were ova in an wre, The fruit did not dieaday markets W tin cal ¥ of t the Warket California etill high bring the quotation VEGETABLES 8 Paid Wholesale Artichokes-Ped many General activity 4 every da changes get and many kk fhe ple Local mpinach uthern ar nour ntrely supplying here out Ub pre but crowding rrivals w soon down reoits Wholesale Deaters Apple — re De Mae—Fren Grape Fruit "i mab, per Per box @ 4-0 a, box Pineapple Taugerines Prices Paid Whole Per ™ Mo. 1 per f. DAIRY -PRODUCTS prices ald to Bbippere per t. “ ” » ° Mixed colors sain r rRovve;nrs Metall Dealers x ore te ae ‘ ™ a7 “ a a3 ey a1 ‘Wise sain ue Tillamook triplets POULTRY AND MEATS Prices Paid by Wholesale Deniers fo Shippers Wash. ereamery, bricks mery, cubes. Roasters Live. s, fat, Be Hens—4\ the Medium. live Live, lent, 2 0 Yancy dry picked tive. Geese—Live Relgian Maree Turkers Roosters Nowe Choles, tent and up 1% to 44 the cents sbove tat, & to 19 te 13 : 200 the. 1069 Med. 200 the. oo 6 | POULTRY AND MEATS | Driers Pald Wholesale Dealers Ducks Drew Heee—Dresse Dressed, light Pryers Genee—Dree | Turkers—-Funcy | Ere tunes. to | Wel, Live, h od, per Td. heary 2 Tr u per tb are won ” per tb iW | Southern pine foresta are diminish- | Veal Med’ STOCK | Stockyards Quotation Cattio— Prime steers um to «pod Feeders Prime cows and heifers. Chotee cows Fair to good Prime ight Smooth heavy eh heavy re 008 7 009 9.00 2.80@12,50 0O@ 9.60 5@ 10.75 - 9.000 2.60 + 2.009 7. Prim: Cull lambs Yeartings re, abt FLOL rR Whol Prices Mlour—Diends 40's, bbL Blonds, local, bates sos. Art, local, 49's, bbl, Art, local, b | Sugar—Cane, | Bort, per HA | Ma Alfalfa... Alxed Hay . jftraw ., |" Chiy’ Delivery, Wholeanie, Harley—Wholo food, 1 Rolled and ground, 60's-100 J, 100" . yellow, ed and feed meal, 100 Onis—Whole, teed, i Tolled and ground, 70° Sprouting, 100’ . j Wheat—Hecleaned food, 1204s | All-Grain Chop-—S0's | Chick Feed—100'" , per owt. , Growing Mash. Vg Mash—-100's, no, Mt. . Beratch Feed--100'" Wheat——Mixed feed, Cocoanut Meal Esttonsoe Meal, Linseed O11 Mea Alfalfa Meat Hoya Bean Ment, Bone Meat... ne Cranul Oharcoal—Hardwi if STORM “WARN NG } Warning of a storm that in | waging about 1,000 miles off tho Weat coast of Oregon and Wash ington was received in a telo. gram to the Seattle weather bureau ‘Thuraday trom San Fran. | elseo, The telegram roads: | “¥pu aro advised of a sevoro | storm about 1,000 miles west of Point Arena, moving eastward, | Probably reach Oregon coast about Iriday evening, Advine whipping bound for Orient of no || 5, grading and curbing Gar ow Is Time to Provide ‘OL ROYALTIES for Next Winter’s Coal REACH BIG SUM Fuel Troubles } 8 1, B ¥ {down to the contents of the present | Mans. Roger HILLS, March 29. W. Babson, stati ticlan and bust authority, has some very de cided views on the coal situation “Within another the coal should be over, If the weather rune ac cording to the al everyone rene week furnine manac, will be able to get dx after April Int pr settled? nays Babwon, lot like the man who » hin ro When tt it didn't need fixing ning he couldn't we have repeat ng, womre talk jn the summer, Babson al he nee the ann’t raining it was r An a re #; in the the trikes, coal deale and tn the winter, the actua THE TOLL, OF STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS ere hasn't been a strikes and wused loss in ine It now oing to ant higher looks repent od with if wil more spring In the ty, and it ie may & at the obiem by analyzing neveral teups find that they ups n 1 operators have wht was a real griev {fe In each han attempted 10 problem by appoint ing & coi D. THE PUBL rT PAYS THE BILLS iy with the rence vernment In publ mpat was had down te argely mir An we find the © able to t we miners are of bm hitthe rt ®. There be tween the miners and oper rieved ani Both now h fighting machines and both ap. |parently are actuated by the same motive—to get all they can for them- selves and to give as little as they can. The third party In argument, eat consuming public, very well. In noe on record tt hi and has meekly ap- mission to patch up the other two tors an to whic © pow: whi the h wan the « akTeasor the has not done | y a half dozen nd min-| lion consumers negress to appoint a mminnion, eimply because the thing | aym had been done and tt ts a sumed, therefore, that it must always be done. THE PLANS SUGGESTED N coal there are three of us in this problem. Hoth miners and operators have been loud in proclaim ing their rights and in demanding that thelr particular pet schemes be | enforced, |A platform for the most important | member operators’ | vacation for the other six month: had} | PROVE every single in- i t aken most |!* th | careless, jthe greater I should ike to propose | * argument—the gen. | much arguments boil coal method. It {s apparently just profitable to do business half of the year at twice the profit and take « it 1s to work the year round at # normal profit ‘ “The miners’ plan is ingenious and well caleulated insofar as the welfare of the miner is concerned. Thi would have the government bi the coal mines at # figure which nat at $4,600,000,000 and would then have the government carry on opera tions and nell coal to the public. The scheme invelves much machinery for ntific determination of price fixings and similar other activi en, Mine wages would become a political issue which would be fine for the miners. WHAT THE CONBL a WANTS What the consumer in tg getting at a fair pri he needs tt, Everyo: ho} fed the problem will agree that the seat of t fact that pqueesed out of the industr one hand they have been thru the organization of her hand by the comt This, moreover. rincipal ument against t purchase of the coal mines, for & plan, ingtead of increasing tion, would bar it out en. conts very terested when © trouble lies in the competition been On the thwarted labor; on jon of in the goverr such comy urely, , therefore. joy gover authority only #0 far as it is necesmary to make the industry subject to economic laws the Inw of sup the law of compet A SOLUTION | FOR THE PUBLIC “How, then, can we put compe tion into th business? TI first step must be to wecure from the government a commission, or boar which will have the authority to act fy & referee for the public in all ar «uments arising within the industr is to fon. coal It must be empowered by the federal | government to enforce tts rulings. “AS & second «step, the mines should be divided into two parts, will be approximately equal as thelr producing capacity is ned, Then, by public decree please, Jet the mines half be operated as union mines shop agree but the mines in the other hal¢ be kept on an open shop basin. Then let the two groups show by their operation which plans fe the better, LET EACH SIDE ITS CLAIM “The operators claim that the more efficient mines are the open shop mines, whereas the miners claim that the most efficient pian the closed shop ‘and the tignt The public does not know which i» right, but it does know that when either group secures com- plete control it becomes inefficient, and arrogant one un ed nent, So long ma there in real and fair | rests |competition, both sides are kept on| get aireet Terminal—t their toes. If it is really true that the open shop plan is more effi cient than the closed shop, then the open shop mines will gradually get part of the country’s business. The same will be true if the miners can demonstrate their plan is the better. “An interstate commerce commis. sion has helped greatly in solving our transportation problems and tn: suring service for the public. A similar body as enforce its rulings would to insure real competition therefore, good service in the industry.” and, The weekly bulletin of construc. tion work insued by Coral B. White, | manager of the National Surety com- pany, Wednesday, shows the follow: ing construction work planned and bids called for BRIDGE SEWERS | County commtasioners, Lewis coun- |ty, Chehalts, bids 2 p. m., April 17, 220-foot steel bridge. County commissioners, Thurston county, Olympla, bids 2 p. m., April 16, bridge, 165 feet, improvement of Olympla-Little Rock road, Guy Smith, secretary, Route “K," Centralia, bids 12 noon, April 7, con- struction of drainage system, district No. 1, Lewis and Thurston counties, City council, Spokane, bids March 9, sewerm Mission ave. * C. B, Bugley, board of public works, Seattle, bids 10 a, m., March 30, 84th avo, W., sewers, Long-Bell Lumber company, Wes- ley Vandercock, chief engineor, Kel- so, 6 p. m., April 10, sewer construo- tion, pipe and appurtenances, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT City council, Spokane, bids April 5, 1,460 cast tron service boxes. Long Bell Lumber company, Wes- ley Vandorcook, chief engineer, Kel- 80, bids $1,000,000 electrical equtp- ment and construction, Cc. B. Bagley, board of pubdile works, Seattle, bids 10 a. m., March 80, distribution transformers, Seattle Nehting department. HIGHWAYS AND STREETS City comptroller, Bellingham, bids April 2 improvement of Humboldt and Jaeger sta, Commissioner of streets, Yalimn bids April 2, paving Maple and D!- vinion sts City council, Spokane, blds April nd ave, James Allen, state highway com. missioner, Olympla, bids recelved uns til 10 a, m, April 17, for the following: (1) Grading, paving 4.78 miles of Pa. cifle highway, Neals to Toledo, Lewis county, (Grading, paving 8.7 milow of Sunset highway, Douglas county, (8) Construction of timber bridge and Ld tapha Ocean Beach highway, Pacific county, (4) Grading and graveling 1.44 miles Inland Wmptre highway, Garfield county, (6) Grad. ing And surfacing 6,9 miles Inland vere easterly, ahiftingg westerly, Biles Off the oust," aetna Hnpire highway, Stevena county, ©. Be Bagley, board of public Works, Will receive bids until 10 a, m., April 6, for clearing right-of-way for Skagit transmission line in seo. tions 14 and 15, Puget Sound & Cascade Railway | Co., Clear Lake, bide for grading and building eight miles of railroad, from Hamilton to Finney creek, along the Skagit river, City clerk, Centralia, will receive bids until April 12 for paving. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION City council, Spokane, bids to April § for crematory garage building, T. G. Doan, architect, Bellingham, Wash., has been selected to prepare plans ‘for the new Skagit county courthouse at Mount Vernon. John Graham, architect, smith building, Seattle, is recetving bids for excavation of site for new Catholic hospital at Everett, Shafer Investment Co., James B. Blackwell, architect, Hoge building, is asking bids for new building a cau ave. and Pine st,, to cost $500,- ee eniinntepecsine Sethe MEAT CANNERIES are being es. tablished on a small scale tn the Fist islands, and American concerns are selling thom tho: necessary machin. ery, re C. M, & St. P, rallway was granted 4 rail rodte from St. Paul to site of Ford plant, where a $10,000,000 fao- tory to employ between 12,000 and 14,000 men ts to be built. ply and demand and | that | ‘referee’ with power | do} Babson Has Plan for Solution of Over $10,000,000 Have Been Realized WASHINGTO’ royalties totaling m: 000 have been reall: | Unttea port of ¢ States government as a re and gas pr leased public lands Work Secretary the Interior The day $10,045 3 1 February alone § $489,761 of production eas the - hea During of rece! month was which $18,888 eduction and of came from ¢ rom ural cture puk om lands Ol and the | February Wyom! and $2 total was government inelue 914.9 from ing perm partment of the ' Ship News Tides in Seattle THURSDAY FRIDAY MARCH 2 | MARCH 30 First High Tide | First Migh Tide | 45 a m., 11.8 ft Oa. m, ILS Vir’ Low Tide | First Low Tide 4:40 & mm, 62 ft Zs 29 ef Second Migh Tide | Second High Tide | ym, 98 : 10.6 ft} | ‘second Low Tt inecond | Low T 11 te] . Weather Rardin Report | OBH ISLAND, March 24—8 at | Arrivals and Departures AREIVED—Mar h 2%—Str Lato via Boutheas 2 Dewey for Anacor | via Everett, Bellingham and Vancouver, |B. C., at 7:10 p.m; str Robert Lucken- | back ‘for Boston via ports, at 6:20 p. m.; sir Admiral Bebree for Nanaimo, at 6-06 |p. m.: atr J. A. Moffett for San Prancie-o, at 11:30 p.m. Alaska Vout: Cordova—March 2 | meda, southbound | Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove Terminsi—Pier A—Barre Wm. Nottingham, str Willie A. Hig- Bs : | Gre: thern inal—Btr Tayama 8 ¢. Haida, U. G. Sno- homish, aC & Dellwood, |Qrand Trunk Queen. | Per 1¢—Str Achilles, Alves. | Pier 11—Str Owego, | Pier 4—Schr John A. Pier 2—8tr Victoria, str Delrosa Pier B—Str Admiral Nicholson. Pier D—Str Admiral Rodman | Pacific Const Con) Runkere—-Str Manda’ U, & Shipping Board Moorings—Str Ic nium, str Anna E. Morse, str Silver- ado, str Crom Keys, str Delight, ste West Hartland, str West Ison, Connecticut Street Terminal—Str Henry 8. Grove, str Willamette. Atlantic Street Terminal. Bowling, str Santa Oliviay Waterway Dock & Warehouse Co.— tr Lubrico, str Steel Ranger. Todd Drydocks—Str Boxer, etr Challam- schr Zapora, U. 8. C.G. Pact Terminal—str motorship Buenos str Northwestern, Str Edgar t Sound Bridge & Drydock Co.—str Patterson Ames Termin Schr Geo. EB. B lings, str Sagadahoc, motorship Libby Maine. | Heftern Drydock—Motorship: Oregon, | str Wallingford, str Admiral Evans. | West Seattle Training Siation—U. & & axle No. m—Huoy 1—Bktn James Tuft, Buoy ¢—Sehr Henry H. Wilson, atr Wa- won: | Alaska Steamship Mooring do, atr Valdes, Winslow Marine Rallway—Str Cacsa bark Belfast. barge Coquitlam Cit bktn James Tuft, whalers Star > 1,2, Str Redon- United States employment service finds big gain'{n| employment in |many cities, with labor payrolls | showing substantial increase in Feb- ruary, a month usually showing do- |crease in employment owing to in- clement weather conditions. 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