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Show , KFOR RAIL SERVICE Washington Crop Valued at $30,000 Declared in Jeopardy j WEBER IS SUFFERING, Absence of Cash Buyers in; Ogden Is Blamed to Strike OLYMTIA. Wash. Aug. 19. Crops! valued at $30.u00.000 are ia jeopardy I in this state, owing to the uncertainties uncertain-ties connected with the movement of crops to market President Harding, T. ; I do Witt Cuylcr, chairman of the com- imittee of Railway Executives, B. M. ' I Jewell, load of the strikin-j shopcrafts I unions. Warren S. Stone, chief of the j .Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers an.! members of the Washington del-j legation In congress were advised to- lav in telegrams from E. L. French, 1 state director, of agriculture, appeal-I lng to those addressed to use your best offorts to settle the strike immediately," imme-diately," Because of the rail atrik- . th LeJ -gram's ri.ld'i I .-astern Liu. is are r.--I fusing to make contracts for fruit WOTIIEIt TEXiKGBAJdl YAKIMA. Wash.; Aug. 19. Three associations of Yakima rrult growers. Friday night wired President Har. ling j asking that federal poiyer be invoked in restore normal transportation con- dltlons. j i Note- Weber, county and northern ii tab is declared to be suffering rath, ra-th, r acutely by reason of th. uncertainty uncer-tainty prevailing In the transportation' situation There seems to be absolutely absolute-ly no cash buyers In Ihe. field for tho .peaches. Nobody wants to pay cash 'for car loads of peacprs when they I are not certain that the will bo able to g.-t their purchases to markets Pb- tiiti. growers also arc ileclared to be ;-wll. ring losses due to th- tlmidltv of buyers, .observers in a position to i know conditions de.lare tint some VVebcr county farmers, who ?;i w i bright prospects ahead or them a lew weeks ago, now do not know whether they will make a cent on this year's crops ) |