Northwest News Letter Highlights Pacific Northwest Growth
Census analysis shows Seattle leading Pacific Northwest industrial growth from 1904 to 1909, with Seattle up 107 percent, Spokane 102, Portland 72, Tacoma 51. Other items note Lake Washington canal approval, political shifts, and a Seattle marriage couple accompanying local ball news.
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Seattle
United States
Pacific Northwest
H. O. Stecihan
Northwest
Spokane
Portland
Tacoma
Leavenworth Clerk Denies Refusal to Register Women
City Clerk L R Hart of Leavenworth states publicly he has never refused to register women voters and invites them to register, clarifying the standard questions asked and extending open registration hours Saturday evenings from 7 30 to 9 00.
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Echo
Washington
Chelan County
Leavenworth
King Building
L. R. Hart
City of Leavenworth
Twin Lake Power Site Approved for Quincy Valley Irrigation
A power filing was made at Twin Lake outlet in the Wenatchee lake district by the Quincy Valley Water Users Association. Under Chief Engineer Jacob this aligns with developing the Quincy valley irrigation project to power dam and tunnel work for water conveyance to 500000 acres. Engineer Youngdale’s party has surveyed over forty five miles around the reservoir site and will need at least two more months to finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twin Lake
Wenatchee Lake District
Quincy Valley Water Users’ Association
Quincy Valley
Jacob
Youngdale
Lumber burning costs and community wages warned
A brief notice warns that every thousand feet of lumber burned costs the stumpage owner two dollars and costs the community eight dollars in wages. It cautions against discarding burning matches or tobacco to prevent fires.
Icicle Canal and Snow Creek Propose Town Water Supply
Leavenworth officials receive proposals from Icicle Canal Co and Snow Creek Water Co to supply municipal water. Each offers 300000 gallons daily for 20 years or longer with options to scale to 1,000,000 gallons and annual payments of 3200 and 10000 dollars, subject to town reservoir and conduit construction.
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Sam Wilhelm
J. B. Hathaway
A. M. Franklin
George D. Barnard & Co
Tumwater Light & Water Co
Leavenworth Furniture & Hardware Co
Mutual Mercantile Co
State Tax Commission
Henry McBarry
Marshall Fitz
Wiegand
Icicle Canal Co
Snow Creek Water Co
Leavenworth
State of Washington
Chelan County
Snow Creek
Icicle Canal Company
Washington editors meet at Pacific Beach after Grays Harbor gathering
Returning from the state newspaper men’s meeting at Grays Harbor August 3 4 and 5 the delegation enjoyed a beach day at Pacific Beach with ocean dips shell gathering and a reception hosted by Mrs Ralph Emerson Mrs A J Blethen and Mrs Albert Johnson. Mount Vernon was chosen as the 1912 meeting site. Officers elected include President Fred Ornes First VP Arthur A. Smith Second VP Ben Spear Secretary Louis Jacobin Historian Thomas Crawford Orator John L. Wilson Poet Albert Johnson and an executive committee listing E E Beard F A Hazel tine W B Jessup J B Best and Edith Tozier Wethered.
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Grays Harbor
Pacific Beach
Hoquiam
George H. Emerson
Ralph Emerson
A. J. Blethen
Albert Johnson
Non Argus
Arthur A. Smith
Port Angeles Tribune-Times
Ben Spear
Waterville Press
Louis Jacobin
Concrete Enterprise
Thomas Crawford
Centralia Chronicle
John L. Wilson
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Washingtonian Executive Committee
E. E. Beard
Vancouver Columbian
F. A. Hazeltine
South Bend Journal
W. B. Jessup
Bremerton Searchlight
J. B. Best
Everett Herald
Edith Tozier Wethered
Tacoma
Great Northern adopts telephone dispatching on Cascade division
The Great Northern Railway purchased selectors from Western Electric to equip two circuits on the Cascade division. The system will cover 93 miles from Tye to Everett Junction with a Monroe branch to Tolt and a branch from Pacific Avenue to Delta. A second section runs 36 miles from Tye to Leavenworth. The road endorses telephone over telegraph for dispatching and expects wider phone operation across its 4,000 miles of track, comprising about one fifteenth of U S mileage.
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Great Northern Railway
Western Electric Company
Cascade
Tye
Everett Junction
Monroe
Tolt
Pacific Avenue
Delta
Washington
Leavenworth
United States
Fisher to Visit Alaska Aims to Speed Relief Legislation
Secretary of the Interior Fisher will arrive in Seattle on August 14 and meet the Joint Alaska committee before sailing to inspect coal fields and mining districts in Alaska. He comes as the president's personal representative to help resolve the situation, with hopes of remedial legislation.
Public Service Commission Cuts Great Northern Rates
The Public Service Commission orders Spokane Falls and Northern treated as part of the Great Northern system. Through hauls replace multiple local charges, cutting average rates about 25 percent and even half in some cases. The order excludes interstate shipments through British Columbia from the cut.
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Olympia
Public Service Commission
Great Northern Railroad
Spokane Falls & Northern
Great Northern
Spokane
Okanogan
Stevens
Ferry Counties
Colville
Kettle River
Spokane & Northern
Wenatchee
Chelan County
British Columbia
Interstate Commerce Commission
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