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Show lulls " ! IMPOSED Committee Named to Inves- tigate Situation to Determine De-termine Profits. !i Lcia! to The Tribune. fpoCATBLLO, Idaho. Auff. 9.-Mayor p-itaker's plan to establish a municipal mbe"r yarJ in Pocatello in order to re-Le re-Le the price of building material so f . he city's big building program may Carried out did not meet the unanimous L-'oval of the council and lumber dealers deal-ers of the city. ,n hi3 resolution to the council the Lor called attention to the serious krsing question; that hundreds of men Woyed in the railroad service could not Lve their families with them on account no housing accommodations in the 'f-v that building of houses for the ac-L'modation ac-L'modation of these families was great-t great-t 1,-imoered on account of excessive lum-U lum-U nnces prevailing here, and that it P, the purpose to estahliwn a municipal Tmaer vard and huy lumber direct from L independent mills and sell it to home friers at cost for cash. Fne mayor Inferred In his resolution that .;' utiber combine existed which is prov- ,p detrimental to the welfare ot tne Ir' C Bowerman. one of the leading m'ber'dealers in the city, addressed the W:;l and stated that Pocatello lum-Tr lum-Tr dealers were selling lumber at a very Jnall profit, and invited the mayor and Dtincll to look over the books of his com- lifter considerable discussion for and fciint the project, Mayor Whitaker ap-binted ap-binted a committee to Investigate the Ember situation and report at the next "nectin" This committee is composed of "(ouncifmen Henry Peake, Leo Husk and Romas Davis. |