The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-03-04

at ColfaX.
Wheat in storage will be assessed
at $l.00 per bushel for taxation pur-
poses in Spokane county this year
In the lewiston Moscow section of
| the Palouse district it is estimated
that two-thirds of the 1920 grain crop
has been sold
Bonners Ferry, Idaho, claims to
have the oldest house in Idaho. The
structure was erected near the site Of
( the present city in 1907.
One hundred farmers of Spokane
county will grow certified potatoes for
seed this year. A specialist from
Washington State College will meet
growers at Spokane on May to 60
into the subject thoroughly.
American Legion posts in Spokane
county have organized a county asso-
citation. Spokane county is one of the
first in the state to act on the sug-
| gsetion of the state executive in this
respect
Stock raiscrs running cattle in the
Wenaha forest reserve have decided
to pool funds and employ range rid
erS this year. In the past it has not
been the custom to keep riders on the
forest range.
Teams of leading Spokane residents
are canvassing the city for subscrip-
tons to the Kennewick- k-Pasco bridge
fund. The necessity and desirabilitv
of the construction of this bridge
across the Columbia river is thor
oughly recognized
One million eight hundred thousand
lady bird beetles, 'lady bugs" are to
be freed in the prune growing dis
tricts of the Spokane county the first
warm day this spring. The "bugs
have been kept in cold storage all
winter. They feed on aphis when re-
| leased in orchards.
President Fllatrault of the Theo
dore Roosevelt International Highway
association, whose headquarters are
in Duluth, Mimi, will arrive in Spo-
kane shortly to determine the route
to be followed by the highway from
its present western terminus at
Whltefish, Mont, through Spokane to
Portland, Ore The eastern end of
the highway is to be Portland, Me.
Shoshone county commissioners
have completed arrangements with
the forestry service for building a
new wagon road, under government
supervision, from the Montana Idaho
summit at Lookout to Mullan. This
road will connect with a similar pro.
ject on the Montana side in Mineral
county, which was completed last fall
to within a short distance of the sum-
NIT, and will form new link in the
Yellowstone trail
Crops of the Walla Wala valley.
exclusive of wheat, were worth more
than S5,O00,000, County Agent W. H.
lalley states. OF this sum, apples
represent more than $1,000,O0O.
prunes added approximately $4,000,
and cherries $1S0,00O. The aggregate
sum did not take into consideration
the dairy products, which was large
figure, for there are more than 10000
dairy cattle in the valley The wheat
crop of the valley, exceeded 100000
bushels, which at $1.50 a bushel a,l-
ded S7500,000 to the grand total. AL
falfa hay added nearly million dol
lars, even at prevailing low prices.
This spring and summer Yakimq
will spend approximately $60O,O in
improvements and will provide work
for $40 persons between three and
SIX months, depending on jobs. ac-
cording to a survey by City Engineer
{. +. Wilson. Wilson says present
plans call for expenditure of $4,000
on sidewalk improvements. S2OO.O 900
for pavement work, of which 1926. .On0
worth has already been contracted
for 100000 for general sewers and
100000 for lateral sewers and $780,
600 for that portion of the city irr'
cation system that can be constructed
this season.
For reported consideration of
S3OO.OO0 4194 acres of wheat land in
Columbia county were sold by J. W.
Giidersleeve and F. f. Gildersleeve t.
the Union Farm Lands company of
Spokane. subsidiary of the Union
Securities company. 1t is all fenced
and improved farm land, and 1900
acres will 90 into wheat this year.
The stock and equipment on the prop