The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1924, Page 4

The History of the THE SEATTLE STAR SPAY. FEBRUARY 7 Agit ——— Danger of Big Debt on Skagit Foreseen Early | the facts, of | debt to t }ings of the of ull BY PHIL TINDALL Chairman Utilities Committee the City Council BOUT the time all bids on the original power project thrown a sharp diffe opinion became evident ai Officials. May ba Mr, Dimock Ross, having for ity favored plant, w public owr feel_ that proceed to bulld of approximate Ty 60,000 horse. power at the Gorge creek Skagit site which Mr, Dim- ock had now es: timated to cost $5,199,000, with- out sub-station By a note- worthy — coinel. dence, members of the city coun TINDALL —cil_ known to be @evoted to public ownersh! fm favor of proceeding wi treme caution. Councilmen Bolton, Robert B. H Roland W. Cotterill: ma: tspection over the Volved and on their return @ statement prepared by Mr. terill, which sald in part: FEAR HELD THAT DEBT WAS TOO BIG “In our judgment the first unit development of the Skagit will be at once a plant w ro and devel s whic les of Seattle a will di T rs say within the § SON FAVORED TWO OTHER SITES ( was incline T yactiman di 0 Ericksor elther t ‘6 Cushm demand: p plete signed Cot. | bonds plant anded ¢ facilitt nt rtation WANTED BIDS MADE ON COMPLETE JOB A it unefl R We t A plant to watts could be built for $5,000,000 © that cost aid n be > well cu’ we tata reas took stand that had also the Why boil or steam away all the delicious flavor and food value there is in beans?. The Heinz method of oven-baking by dry heat preserves the natural good- ness and deliciousness of beans —and Heinz famous Tomato Sauce adds tang and zest that make them irresistible, ° whether tho plant tho extimates, the oso wero tho ww his was not and fair stand to take, : build plants at excessive cost, | eleven tho they bigness, is to pl petit our 60 re an plant for the rocks o! I feel more positiv financial dis not hat the council vmit iteelf to a til bids} uid t dn been far in excess of the approximately 96,000,000 cost estimate submitted, Which includes transmission line @nd sub-station. ‘ It is all Very well in theory to talk about everybody being able to use tricity for cooking, heating, lighting nd power at a price all can afford and that there will be no oral @ebt, but this is not consistent wi! ave re- estnees Id be built with 9,000 ly, © ontendir in his estima (Continued {n Tomorrow's Star) vate the a Mr. Ri would int co of Mr. 5,000,000 be Erickson duced = CO-EDS DEBATE and providing for a su station within the ci to cost $500,000. Creek | Cr } an © U. of W. and Idaho Teams : Meet in Seattle Mayor Ha sel Hugh Coun Caldwell Counell- | Fitzgerald and R. i to Washington, D.| y obtained sanc for the bond {smo from the cap! ae issues committee, and later ‘aring— | tained permission from the govern- No P End Them | ment roy build the plant and use Don’tlet the agony of coms destroy | the water within the forest reserve. | yourcomfort. Apply Blue.jay—and | During the r 1918 wi mstantly the pain vanishes. Then | spring of 1919 the city counefl ap the cota loosensand comes out. | propriated $141,000 for preparatory | Does away with dangerous paring. Get Blue-jay at any drug store. | | . @ Onanim | RE - | Meanwhile, Messes, D. C. Henny eh ue-ja jand C. F. Uhden bad been em-/ y ployed to make @ report on the| | feasibility and cost of the project.| | report, dated May 13, gave it as thelr opinion th ant could be constructed at orge Creek sito for $6,100,000, to |include a concreto dam 45 feet high, a.tunnel two and one-quarter | miles Jong, two units of 26,500 horsepower each (total 53,000 horse-| | power) and a wood pole transmis/| sion line. | They estimated the } steel tower transmission line were substituted, at $6,700,000. If pre- paratory work was promptly start ed, they said the plant could be! completed by the fall of 1 Mr. Uhden was employed in September, 1919, to take charge of the work, and the city council promptly ap- propriated an additional $60,000 for preparatory work, | Mr. Cotterill had died in May of) 1919, but Mr. Erickson had been| persistent in demanding the prep- aration ané@ adoption of a complete plan for the project and the calling for bids on such plan before start- ing actual work on the plant. On | April 20, 1919, at the invitation of The Star, he wrote a_ statement | which was published in its columns, | herein he wid: | ‘After making a trip to the) W Skagit last year, some members of |ho co-6 |the council, including myself, were |day night |skeptical of the cngineér’s esti} Josevhine mates, and felt thet development of /Kelf will represent this project might be exceedingly| Meany hall. Dorothy Lea and Hel-| —- nme | Of) am will uphold the nega-| MO DORONCOTOBONOHOLOR ov. cite for Washington ‘Thursday 2 great with mashed potato night at Whitman In the annual triangular deb s Hy ™M. B. sum of —— | Their Miss Frances White Masieal Comedy Star com, if a rth Josephine Jacobs, member of the University of Wash- ington women's debate team. ‘© peace prizes: will be the re- a but the arguments pro on the proposed entrance 8. into a world court un. Harding plan will wax! when the University of} ington and University of Ida-| debate teams meet Thurs-| an of the U. der am the 1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $1.50, Jacobs and Eugenia} Washington in| | Prices: Nights, 81, $1 53. _Matinees, $1.00, or J, ©. Herbaman, executive secre tary of the China club; L. P. nett, principal of the R high sehool, and T. R. Cole, super: intendent of Seattle schools, will be the Judges hore, | | | ¥ 3 | Star Want Ads cost leas than its/| competitors’ and yet reach a larger | circulation, RE HEINZ -OVEN-BAKED BEANS with tomato sauce One *y/ Unrieties |2,500 in Crowds | Talks on Heredity |Police Chief Will | at Eagles’ Ball) “#*et'v: Are Diseases 10-) Join Redmen Lodge y 2,000 persons attended the|Derited?" will be the toplo of &! Bocs cnict W. B, Severyns and ual ball of the Seattle | lecture to be given_at the. Labor! 75 other candidates will be. in- Jes at their auditorium at Sev } et a 4 ary ge es C Onton at and the| eee, Cmainy_ eveuloe: BY! iistea tuto the Tenproveds Geter. at |Professor Trevor Kincaid of the/Redmen at their headquarters at hall at and Pine st. rages + Wednesday evening, accdtding to| University of Was 7 First ave, Saturday evening. | eds att E Stunt Will Show Value of Dollar Kept at Home SLEUTH ts on the trail of “the dollar that stays at hom John A. McCormick, of Friday Harbor, when in Seattle a few days ago, mailed a dollar bill to the Friday Harbor Journal tn payment of his'subscription. Attached to the dollar was a tag bearing his name. With {t he wrote a request that everybody who received the dollar should add his signature to the tag as the dollar was spent. In this way McCormick plans to demonstrate the “home products” idea, showing how much a dollar will pay for if it is kept at home, and how completely a community or district will lose if it is sent away, he declares. } | | | | | | Charging waste in North End road \|expenditure and claiming his own dis- || trict has been economically managed, louses are unneces. | County Cornmissioner Frank Paul, of sary. cause of these troub- the South district, Thursday asserted | les ii misplaced bone ii |that the/ recent interference by his | Sites against zd Bie Jassociates in management of his road | nerves. affairs 1s a conspiracy to discredit | him and cause his defeat at the next Relief from these foot troub- les is a service rendered by our election, Early this week Commissioners W. exclusive foot relief parlor, of a gradu. ined in the Relieved! Painful heels, leaning ankles, A. Gaines and Tom Dobson voted to abolish Sunday pay and automobile upkeep for Lafe Hamilton, Paul's | South End road supervisor. Extracts taken from the county |auditor’s records show that tho total average overhead expense per day for road work in the North district totals | $73.48, Paul says. ‘This includes Dob- |son's salary of $11.82 per dey, a per jdiem expense of $3 for operation of Dobson's county automobile, exclu- sive of depradation, and salary of you are under no obligation, |foug road supervisors at $10 per day ach on: the-ankinland afd one on| } A. LUNDBERG CO, >) Mercer inland at $5 por day, and one 1101 Third Ave.. | bridge foreman at $10 per ds | Seattle "aul's road overhead totals only | lay, or one-half Dobson's, This inctudes only one wor at $11 per day instead of He can give you relief —yes, fostent AGE” Consult ine” | County Road Expenses Start Commission Row Paul Denies Wasting Funds in Keeping Up District Highways; Makes Charge Riverton Man Dies Succumbing to a short illness, William RR. McLaughlin, 63, real. dent of Riverton for the past 34 years, died at his home Wednesday. He is survived by two sons, Roy and Glenn McLaughlin. AY ane Song / ~ Cherry’s .... READY TAILORED CLOTHES rox MEN amp WOMEN MILLINERY ~ WAISTS = FURS 1015 Second Avi the Rialto Bldg. 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