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VOLUME XXXVI. NO. I
COUNTY SUFFERS
SLIGHT D00GE
POSTOFFICE REMOVAL
IS NOW PLANNED FOR
NEXT SUNDAY MORNING
Owing to the failure of certain
essential fixtures in time it was found
FROM RAIN STORMI inaddsable to attempt moving the
Shelton Postoffice last Sunday but
is expected that the removal can
effected
TRAFFIC TIED UP BY FLOOD
BUT NO SERIOUS LOSS INCUR-
RED--OTHER DISTRICTS
RAVAGED
On Monday night the worst rainy
spell in nearly ten years petered out
but while it lasted almost the record
for this section. According to "the
nearest observer, at Detroit, in Mason
County, the fall in the twelve days
of December reached twelve inches,
although two-thirds fell during Sun-
day and Monday. All the streams
vere bankfull, roads were under-
mined, culverts washed out and slides
blocked, while the autos had •their
troubles in getting over the soft
roads.
Fortunately, there were no fatali-
ties or even serious damage any-
where in Mason County, although
all over the state towns were flood-
ed, reads impassable and traffic
"blocked. The property damage, in the
:aggregate of the small items runs
into the million, and probably a score
.of deaths have resulted. The wreck
on the Clemens railroad due to slide
cost four lives,' three went down
when a Great Northern train went
through a bridre, a slide in Seattle
demolished several houses and cost
three lives, and here and there slmi-
lap unforeseen occurences each Cost
a life or two. Had the rain continued
another" day the record would have
been doubled.
• Traffic wa held up for a day on
the lower Satsop road and also in
he Skokomish valley, and a slide
hlodeod the Navy Yard highway near
Tie]fair, but the waters receded quick-
ly and the repairs .were soon made.
Tn h¢*lton n,rt e¢ +he ,qpDrocb to
the Seventh street brhie'e ws washed
out before it wn. stopped, and a
section of the hiMlwav out of (exam
was undermined, hut thre were oth-
er routes available. The new steel
"Peninsular bridge was threatened, and
a train cr&v ".nent sea,oral nights
• anllnlz gravel in protection.
Cellars were finn(led and heatlnff
-plants put out of enmmls;nn, swer
tr.a ('.me , in the mblic school
land the "punils were dismissed Mon-
day nftemoon, bat .side.from minor
troubles here and there the big rain
wa forgotten about as soon as it
On,led.
The C?,ov11vssnor ;vere ont cov-
ernF theh- distl•ict Monday mornlne"
nd ,no had crews n,t work wherever
lhe roats were in trouble; so traffic
SlltPftalr 1 vev,, l{ffl delay, at any
|nt. The worst slide is that on the
v, Ynvd hhzhx,,av, where for a
",'ection t was noeessarv to nnnk
he roa ovr a f,•enhormS Sl;aI.
mb-trta rnm the hl]]side. Whl]e
the cost of 1)ut.tin all the roads in
onl order a before the late storm
w.;ll be cons;derble Mason County
eovle max. feel fortunate in escap-
log so lightly.
During the high waters the gates
of the splash dam at the Ingersoll
mill were opened and all of the
shingle bolt supply for the mill re-,
leased. As it will take some time to
et the bolts back the mill closed
own for the present.
SACU0000"
AT EARLWIN HALL
SUNDAY EVENING
OUNTY'S MUSICAL TALENT
_SHOWS THE CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT IN FREE TREAT
As announced in last week's J0ur-
real there will be a sacred Concert
.at Earlwln Hall, Shelton, on Sunday
night, December 18th. The best mus-
ical talent of the county is showing
(he tTue community and. Christmas
spirlg by dffering to all this free
treat.
Promptly at 7:30 o'clock will begin
a short urogram of instrumental
numbers y an orchestra, which will
also accompany the community sing-
ing in the program which will" follow.
he program:
1. Community Singing:
Joy To The World.
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing.
Oh, Come All Ye Faithful
2. Chorus: "Palm Branches.
High School Glee Club
8. BibleReading. Rev. Addison Self
4. Solo: "Holy Night."
Mrs. Edwin Dalby.
. Male Quartet:
Messrs. Moore, Mallows,
Schroeder and Johnson
6. Solo: "Nazareth."
Mr. Roy Rudy.
7. Community Singing:
Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
'8. Trio:
Mrs. Guy Kneeland, Miss Jessie
Knight," Mrs. Allen. Bell.,
9. Solo: "The Holy City.
Mrs. Chas. Lewis.
"10. Mixed Quartet:
2Kiss Rachel Hepner, Mrs. Fred Diehl,
:Messrs. Chas. Paine and Asa Ward.
"11. Community Singing:
Tell Me The Otfi, Old Story
12. Solo: "The Day is Ended."
Mr. Erle Dammann.
13. Quartet:
Mrs. Will Grisdale, Mrs. Morris
Johnson, Messrs. Reginald Sykes
i and Robert Callow
Soprano Obllgato,by Mrs. Chas Lewis
:14. Prayer: Rev. W. H. Thomas
"15. Cbmmunity Singing:
: C0e Thou Almighty King
:,: The Con'cert is free--You are cor-
:::,dtally invited to attend•
(Note.--This being a Sacred Con-
,ertapplduse :is not expected,):'
SHELTON, MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, ].921
OYSTER GROWERS iFOUR ARE KILLED
OF TWO COUNTIES l WHEN SLIDE WRECKS
MEET IN BUSINESS! CLEMONS LOG TRAIN
next Sunday and nex
week the patrons accommodated in
the new office. As the box holders
have been assigned their boxes and
instructed in the combinations the
public will not be concerned in the
moviag,--if they find the old quar-
ters vacant they can go to the new
location a few doors west.
STAGE FAKE HOLD-UP
OF VALUABLE CARGO
:OF CANADIAN LIQUOR
HEAD OF ILLICIT TRADE PAYS
SHERIFF VISIT , IN HUNT
FOR STOLEN WHISKY
Last Sunday evening a swift launch
with a "put-put" like a twelve-cyl-
inder racing plane, skimmed along
over the waters of Hood Canal at
close to 20 knots an hour, but its
skiuper must have smelt danger in
a bunch of officers stationed along
.he Olympic highway near the usual
:ending place and "steered for the
lpper Canal. Landing at Happy Hol-
low on the Navy Yard highway a
truck and several autos were waiting
and rumor has it that a valuable
cargo of Canadian liquor was trans-
ferred and preceded by a pilot car
came out by way of Shelton. At least
a Shelton citizen was hem up on the
Webb hill that night by the caravan
until the runners could determine
whether his car contained a" posse
of revenue men or not, and this is
the only evidence that the contraband
came this way.
This week Sheriff Ports had a
visitor from Seattle, none other than
Jack Barrett, the head of the illicit
trade who was caught in one of his
runs through here some weeks ago.
Mr. Bmett was seeking to locate
a valuable cargo of liquor, claimed
to be worth $25,000, which his run-
nershad reported captured by the
local sheriff, and after a talk here
a bright llght struck Mr. Barrett.
His runners returned to Seattle emp-
ty handed and reported that Sheriff
Potts and his posse had held them
up again by throwinga truck acoss
the road and had taken their cargo
away. It now appears that the alleged
"hold-up" was staged and that the
second thieves got away with Mr.
Barrett's liquor,beat the sheriff to
it, and he can't even '§ueai." Bar-
rett, who by the way clmms to have
made $100,000 in trafficking in Can-
adian liquor, will have his trial in
the federal court in Tgcoma this
week on the old charge.
FOUR NATIONS SIGN
PACIFIC ALLIANCE
UNITED STATES ADDS TWO RES-
ERVATIONS TO ITS SANCTION
OF DOCUMENT
Washington, D. C., Dec. 13.--The
new four, power Pacific treaty was
signed formally today, but the Ameri-
can delegates affixed their signatures
subject to a written reservation that
the treaty should not affect the Ameri-
can policy towards mandates nor cov-
er any controversy involving a ques-
tion within, the domestic jurisdiction
of any power. In turn, the plenipo-
tentiaries of the United States, Great
Britain, France and Japan placed
their signatures upon the treaty and
later signed 'copies, both in English
and French, of the American reserva-
tion.
The reservation is in two parts,
the first calculated to cover tempor-
arily the q.uesion of Yap and other
mandated slands which are to be
made the subject of special treaty.
The second clause declared that all
questions which, "according to princi-
ples of international law lie eelus-
ively within the domestic jurisdiction
of the respective powers," shall be
considered outside the scope of "the
treaty.
The text of the American reserva-
tion follows:
t ViB itih.? nmi t ir eS,! YSn ct°e::A:seaY
it is de'cl'ared to be the understanding
and intent of the signatory powers:
"I
"h " That the treaty shall apply to
e mandated islands in the Pacific
Ocean; provided, however, that the
making of the treat.v shall not be
deemed to be an assent on the part
of the United States of America to
the mandates, and shall not preclude
agreements between the United
States of America and the mandatory
powers respectively in relation to the
mandated islands.
"2. That the controversies to
which the second paragraph of Arti-
cle I refers shall not be taken tv em-
brace questions which, according to
principles of international law, lie
exclusively within the domestic juris-
diction of the respective lowers."
The signing was wholly without
'ceremony and devoid of historic set-
ting excels( for the portraits of a
score of former secretaries of state
which looked down from the four
walls of the ante room.
ALUMNI-HOME ECONOMIC
BAZAAR SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR
iT he Christmas Bazaar given here
o/itly by'. the High" School Alumni
and the H6me Economics Club proved
a big su'ceess and netted a consider-
able sum to each of the organiza-
tions. The few articles which re-
mained at the close of the day were
• disposed of by an auction sale. .... '
Te
DECIDE TO IINDE.RTAKE AI)VER- RESCI LRS INJITREI) WHEN SEC-
TISING C A M P A I G N TO t OND S.LIDE STRIliES THE
INCREASE CONSUMPTION , . PARTY
The Oyster Growers and Dealers. Aberdeen, Wash., Dec. ]2•--Two
Association, which includes all those men, a woman and a baby are dead
engaged in the business in Mason and two men are injured, on'e per-
and Thurston Counties, hehl a meet- haps fatally, as a resultof two slides
ing in Shelton'on Wednesday evenipg on the Clemens Logging compah'y's
adjourned from midsummer at 0lyre- railroad about 16 miles south and,
pie. The visitors arriving late in east of Aberdeen last night. Thef
the afternoon supper was the first first slide carried a logging train
order• and a enuine Puget Sound engine and a number of cars 200 feet
feed "was provxde " (l b, locia o ,ster _, down. ..... a steep embankment, killing.
- " ( sters 'ourignt the engineer, m wife and
men at the It.tel Sheltm. Oy ,, - - ...
urs Mad • and other two-vear-ohl baby and mured two
of 0 e, ]ams, s s " b "" " "" .......
good things made up the repast fit raKemen. TOe secon stme, nmt
for oystermen; with music., and other an hour later, killed one member of
entertainment for "cocktails•" l a railroad construction camp rescue
After supper the hotel dining party which had been hurried to the
room was requisitioned for a business scene, injured another, and left a
session, presided over by Dr Ing-I third as yet unaccounted for.
ham, president. Oyster" conditions, The dead: Gerald Willis, 28, lee.-
both with respect to the beds and motive engineer.
Mrs. Pearl Willis, 25.
growing and the marketing of the
product were discussed generally and
an encouraging note was offered by
those present. The main discussion
of the evening was over the advis-
ability of boosting the oyster con-
sumption among the public by an
advertising campaign, and it was
agreed to raise a fund for this pur-
pose. There was no change in the
price, which holds at $10 a sack.
The visiting oystermen were: G.
W. Ingham, George and Walter Dra-
ham; arl and Charles Brenner and
son Walter; Frank Gunder; Dudley
Simmons; John Blass; Peter Sehmdt,
E. N. Steele, the secretary; Jacob
Morrow and E. L. Van Epps of Olym-
pia; Oscar Zandell, Allyn; J. Will
Waldrip and the Dan Lynch's, senior
and junior from Kamilehe.
Among the home 'rowers were
Donate and Angus O'Neill, Joe Deer,
C. I. Pritchard, J. W. Gasser, M. E.
Reed, Frank. Chester, F. Schroeder
and Dick Butler.
SOME CHRISTMAS CItEER
THAT WILL NOT CHEER
Sheriff Pot(s, assisted by the rev-
enue men, took up the trail to Lake
Cushman last Sunday and looked into
a couple of cabins near the Pimenix
camps hunting for the source of
"moonshine" in that neighborhood,
and while they did not find any of
the finished product mash was located
in two places• In one about forty
gallons of raisins were ripening into
condition to be made into a brew
while in the other was 25 gallons
of mash intended for distilling into
"hard stuffY In neither was any
sort of distilling apparatus found and
the officers had to be satisfied 'with
destroying the mash. In one case
a woman and several small children
were the only occupants and the
Warning was given against the prac-
ti'ce of making "home brew" while
in the other the occupant of the cabin
had been gone a week and no one
seemed to know anything about him.
FIFTH VICTIM OF LOGGING
CAMP SLIDES IS DEAD
Hoquiam, Tuesday, Dec. 13.--The
death of John Lind, late last night
at the Aberdeen General Hospital,
makes a total of five fatalities as a
result of 'the two slides Sunday night
at the Clemens Logging camp, east
.there. Hospital authorities state
this morning the condition of A. W.
Hussy is much improved and Ira M.
Elliott is expected to recover. Anoth-
er slide late yesterday afternoon has
delayed work of clearing away the
mass of debris from Sunday night's
wreck, and the body of Mrs. Gerald
Willis has not yel: been recovered.
Nb trace of W. T. Labelle has been
found, and it is generally believed
he was caught in the downcrash of
earth.
The two-year-old baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Willis•
Ernest .leon, 45, construction camp
laborer.
The injured: W. A. ttussey. 33,
brakeman, right le broken below
knee; both legs badly bmned; John
IAnd, 42, construction (:amp laborer,
crushed by debris, unconscious and
perhaps fatally injured.
Ira Elliott, brakeman, acting" as
fireman, was slightly 'cut and bruised.
Tile slides occurred between 10 and
11 o'clock at a point eight miles south
east of Melbourne. An early tr'dn
carrying hetween 40 and 50 men to
camp, passed over the track safely
earlier in the eveninm When the
second engine entered the stretch" at
the top of a high embankment the
earth slid from beneat:h it, carrying
it: and the first cars of the train down
200 feet. Willis• his wife and ehiht
were killed outrhdt.
F,1llott, the only member of the
crew able to go for hid, ran to a
nearby construction camp nod return-
ed with a rescue party. IIttrdly had
the work begun when the second
slide occurred, earryinlr the rescuers
and wreckage down the slope.
SMALL CONSOLATION
FROM SCANDINAVIANS
The second dividend of ten per
cent has just been declared to de-
posltors of the Scan(linavian Ameri-
can Bank of Tacoma, making twenty
per cent so far, which is more conso-
lution than the Seattle Scandinavian's
large body of depositors get. Ar-
rangement's made by the banks tied
up under the state guaranty fund
to reorganize the latter concern have
fallen through and an assessment on
this fund has been made by the state
officers to give the depositors some
relief. As the state guaranty fund
is not large enough to pay much of
he claims and many of the banks
ae serving notice of withdrawals
depositors must rely largely on the
resources of the defunct institution
for. what returns they get in future•
The situation is unfortunate and
shows the weakness as well as un-
fairness of the state guaranty idea,-
that the sound banks must make up
the losses of the badly managed con-
cerns. While there are some deposi-
tors in Mason County with funds
tied up in the two defunct banks,
the State Bank of Shelton is not af-
fected as it kept clear of the State
guaranty fund.
METHODIST CHRISTMAS TREE
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23RD
The Christnas Tree and Special
Exercises will be held at the Method-
ist Episcopal church on Friday eve-
ning, December 23rd. Everyone is
invited to attend. A fine program
has been prepared by the Sunddavy
School for the occasion.
A BANNER YEAR IN 1922
The forerunner of an immense prospective trade
in lumber from the devastataed sections of Europe is
an order which the French government has just plac-
ed with a Chicago buyer for 240,000,000 feet of low
grade American lumber. The purchases are to be
made on a three-year delivery contract and will be
started as soon as financial arrangements have been
perfected. The assurance is given that a good share,
if no most of the lumber to fill the order will come
from the Northwest nlills and be shipped in lumber
carriers through the Canal direct to France.
This order alone would keep the logging camps
and mills of the Northwest running most of next
year, and gives assurance of big business in the
lumber trade for several years to come. Then there
are other countries to be heard from, and in our own
country the yards of the middle states are low on
lumber and their orders will be coming in with the
new year, further assurance that 1922 will be one of
the best years in the: history of lumbering in the
Northwest. With the demand expected from the
railroads and the impetus renewed prosperity will
give to home building and the use of lumber general-
ly over the country, and with the further incentive of
reduced freight rates, it now seems sure that nothing
can happen to interfere with this prosperity.
It now looks as though 1922 will be the "big
year" we have been longing for, lo, these many years.
It will be if everybody gets optimistic, says so and
tugs at the rope.
CAMPS WILL CLOSE
THURSDAY, DEC. 23RD
FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY
The holidays are at hand and the
]ngging camps of Mason County will
be closed next Thursday, Dec. 22nd,
foc the usual holiday shut-down. Tle
loggers employed by thd Simpson
compa[ny will come down in force
rldy morning, cash m, and go their
seve}'al ways for two weeks of en-,
j%hent. According to all report.
tlte log market is showing mote
:'ength and the demand is improved
,ith shol supplies in the water .nd
'at the mil!s. The Simpson LogNing
'Company expects to resume opera-
tions January 4th.
FREIGHT SERVICE
OVER PAVED ROAD
CLAIMED BY TWO
STEAMER COMPANY CONTENDS
GRANTING WILL CRIPPLE
THEIR SERVICE
A delegation of Shelton citizens
appeared before the department of
public works at Olympia Tuesday to
protest against the allowance of the
application of the B. & M. Auto
Company to extend its Tacoma-
Olympia freight service to Shelton.
The entire day was spent in hearing
witnesses for each of the contending
parties, there beine three interests
involved in the matter.
The B. & M. Company ah'eady
operates a freight service between
Tacoma and Olympia and, while it
made no 'claim of prior service, urg-
ed its advantage over any indepen-
(lent service to Shelton. The Shelton
Trmsportation coral)any opnosed the
claim on the grounds that their stea-
mer was alrea(ly affording cheap and
adequate )assenger nd freight service
between Tacoma and Shelton, and if
an auto freight line is permitted
from Tacoma direct it wiq likely se-
cure enough of the small and lighter
freighis to make the loss too great
to contimm the steamer service and
Shelton and the hay community will
lose their boat.
The third party in interest in the
hearing" was the Johnson & Wivel]
Transfer Company, which also had
SIX MILES MORE
PAVING PROSPECT
FOR NEXT SITdNG
COMMISSIONERS FAVOR USE OF
ROA1) BOND MONEY WITH
FEDERA, L AID TO EXTEND
PAVING TO MILL CREEK
After several .essions in x:hich the
County Commissioners and interested
citizens joined with the ste high-
way board in discussing vays and
means of continuing the Olympk
highway paving plan in Mason Coun-
ty, agreement was reached this week
entirely satisfactory to the local,
board and doubtless equally accept-
able to the people of this county.
The progrmn contemplates the pav-
ing about six miles to the bridge
across Mill Creek using jointly fed-
oral aid and county bond Tunds, and
recommending to the next legislature,
which is as far as the state officials
can go, appropriations for taking the
paving on to intersection with the
Navy Yard highway•
Governor Hart, Commissioner Al-
len amt the state highway board have
taken considerable interest in improv-
ing the Olympic highway, and ,it
was througl, their efforts that tile
four mile connection of paving was
gained this season beyond what was
expected. This was possible largely
through federal aid and for next year
further aid from this source is avail-
able, bug not in as large proportion
as for the work already clone. There
will he availnble for the hi'hway
$70,000 in federal aid, and if further
paving is ,lone in 1(.)22 the rest of
the funds must be provided by Ma-
son County from its bond issue which
was voted for the pnrpose of paving
only• Estimatinr that if bids can be
called and let early in the year lower
prices will be secured, it will require
.omethinff over $100,000 from tle
cmmty.fund to complete the six mile.q
of pawng. One of the points which
c:msed some trouble was the market-
ing of the bonds, but this has been
provided for and the Mason County
Cmnm ssioners will meet Monday
with the prseent intention of taking
official action to fmvard the paving
project for next year.
Among the plans calling for future
improvement to be re, commended to
an application pending hot.re the the 1923 legislature for the next hi-
board asking for franchise for a ennium by the state board are con-
local service hetween Shelton and tinuin• the navin on throu'h .hel
O]ymma, and showing that thev had lton and the Skokomish Valley t h
already b;en ma.kng oceasmnal runS]Navy Yard intersection, new concrete
eween ne pomps. As both auto I bridges across the Goldsborough and
concets lnaqe a sneering oi consld-Iohn, s creeks and +- -;,,, ^
rable . local . business . between the ] three miles of entirely new highway
pbtnts, and the steamer company of-lnorth of Shelton to lhe head of
lets no oojecmn o ne mcm serwce/Purdy Canyon, cutting the distance
which does )ot interfere wth their labout 1V., miles• This is as far as
through servme, the ssue was large- I nresent lans o. but the next move
]v between .the home concerns and planned is the paving of the Navy
the outrode intruder. ]Yard highway to Bremerten, which
The contest is somewhat similar lwill be widened and graded during
to that of these for service between]the coming year in preparation.
Tacoma and Seattle, and to Portland. I '
Both steamers, interurban and rail-/ ED MAI/AI gADUg'D
roads were involved in the first in- £Vl l/l¥/4Jh tllMri
stance in trying to keep from bein Washington, D, C., Dec. 6.--Con-
put out of business, and the rail- gressman Albert Johnson has been
roads as well as the several local advised by the U. S. Civil Service
freight lines fought the through ser- Commission that Saturday, Dec. 81
vice to Portland on the ground that is the date set for the preliminar.v
;he public was gettin adequate and
:heap service and their rights should
)e protected by the state. If a local
service is granted local people should
have the preference.
The commission after hearing the
testimony took the entire matter un,
der advisement• Alden C. Bayley
renresented the Transfer Company
and Chas. R. Lewis the Transorta-
tlon Company. F. C. Willey, M. E.
Reed, Harry Ford• Commissioner Win.
Daniels, C. S. McGee and J. F. Ja-
coby were among the witnesses on
local behalf.
STATE PROTECTING
SALMON STREAMS
The attitude of the state fisheries
board,in resisting an effort by the
city of Tacoma to divert waters of
the Skokomish .river by flume to a
proposedpower plant on Hood Canal
near Hoodsport, is erie the board will
assume toward all power projects or
other schemes for diverting waters of
salmon spawning streams.
It is contended by the fisheries
board that only (luring five months
of the year could more water be ob-
tained by the Hoodsport scheme than
by locating a power plant on the
Skokomish river where natural
spawning beds, an eyeing station,
fish hatchery and natural oyster beds
could be protected.
The in'ceres( the fisheries board has
in such cases aside from protecting
existing state property is the value
of the food fish that would be de-
stroyed. Thus far no official show-
ing of the suspected loss by, the di-
Version of the Skoltomish river has
been submitted, but it is estimated
the annual value of salmon raised
on the Skokomish and caught by
fishermen after reaching maturity
runs between $100,000 and $200,000.
The Skokomish river was further
protected this year by the fisheries
board's order that created a "rest
area" on upper Hood Canal to keep
fishermen away from salmon pre-
paring to ascend the streams to
spawn.
In his decision upholding the fish-
cries board, Superior Court Judge D.
F. Wright of Thurston county in dis-
cussing the question of ondemning
fish and oyster propagation lands
owned by the state said: "This land
is held by the state in its govern-
mental capacity and, in my opinion,
is no more subject to condemnation
than the state capitol grounds."
examinations for selection of nomi-
nees for the Annapolis Naval Acad-
emy. Applicants making highes
marks in this examination will be
awarded principal and - .alternate
nominations for the regular Naval
Academy examihation of April, 1922.
The examination of December 31 will.
be held at Vancouver, Kelse, Centra-
lia, South Bend. Aberdeen Olympia,
Puyallup and Tacoma. Young men
of Southwestern Washington who wilI
be not; less than 16 nor more than
20 yea of age on April 1, 1922, are
eligible to participate.
HIGHWAY BOARD
CONTRACTS FOR
WORK .ON ROADS
NAVY YARD H[GHWAY AND
NINE MILES 0F IMPROVE-
MENT ON OLYMPIC HIGH-
WAY IN CLALLAM COUN-
TY LARG ITEMS
Olympia, Dec. 12.--The State high-
way 'committee Monday let contracts
for the construction of the following
road improvements:
Clearing, grading, draining and
surfacin with crushed rock about
three mi'[es o the navy yard highway
between Tidewater creek and Charles-
ton in Kitsap county. Awarded to
Frank Morgan, Buckley, for $79,-
584.27.
Clearing, grading, draining and sur-
facing with gravel about 3.1 miles
of the North Bank Highway between
Crooks and Underood in Skamania
county. Awarded to Hans Peterson
Construction company, Seattle for
$54,538.01.
Clearing, grading, draining and sur-
facing wth gravel about 2.5 miles
of the North Bank Highway between
Under,ood and Bingen in Klickitat
county. Bids held under 'considera-
tion. ..
Surfacing with gravel about one
mile of the North Bank highwty
from Stevenson west, in Skamanta
county, post and project No. 86.
Awar[ted to Vogte & Lindsay, Steven-
son, for $3,827.
Clearing, grading and draining
about two mils of the Ocean Beach
highway between Nasel and Johnson's
Landin, in Pacific county. Awarded
to Pen(ill. & Petervo, Nasel, for $26,-
138.45.
I Clearing, grading, draining and
I supra, :r with gravel about nine
Imiles o5, the Olympic .highw_y b
[tween Beaver and Forls m Clallam
I county. Awarded to Reins,tie and
I company, Everett, for $70//52,20.-
J Olympian. '. ..........