White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-05-08
GOVERNOR HARTLEY N
VISITS STATE PRojEcT,

ed party of state officials and others
who spent Sunday here looking over
the state land settlement project. The
others in the party were A. r. Gard
ner, the Governors private secretary,
i Erie Barnes, new director of agricul-
/ ture, Duncan Dunn, state representa-
tive from Yakima, George Miller, a
reporter for the Tacoma Ledger, w.
r. Roe, fruit grower of Naches and
chairman of the republican central
, committee of Yakima county, and Phil
Englehart, an insurance agent at Yak
ina.
The party arrived in White Bluffs
about noon and took lunch at the
Commercial hotel. After lunch the
party drove out through the state
tracts north of White Bluffs and later
in the afternoon drove down to Han
ford, After dinner in the evening a
meeting was held in the land settle.
rnent Office in White Bluffs at which
a number Of those who had been
farming here for the last fifteen years
or more told the Governor and his
party of their experiences. Those who
spoke were E. N. Loveland, R. ].
Roberts, M. S. Meeks. G. w. Shaw,
w. H. Keal, L. T. Brooks, w. S.
Weber and Norman Anglin. The
general trend of their talk was to the
effect that the farming conditions here
were as good as in any irrigated dis
trict in the state; that the settlers
taking up the state tracts had tre-
mendous advantage over the old tim
ers in that they had the experience of
the early settlers as a guide in setting
out on their places to the crops that
produced the best and brought the
greatest returns and tha. the settlers
on the state tracts were getting their
land for about one-third Of what the
first settlers paid. When asked by
Mr.. Barnes if they believed they
could make as good success on one
of the state tracts as they had made
on their own, each one replied that he
believed he could. c. H. Wooten
headed a delegation Of the dissatisfied
settlers on the state tracts who at
tended the meeting and was their
spokesman. He contended that the
soil conditions generally on the state
tracts were not as good as on the land
taken up by the early settlers and
said that the only rood land IN tins
valley was north of the town OF White
Bluffs.
Governor Hartley in little talk
toward the close of the meeting said
that he was simply the business
manager for the largest corporation
in the state in which each taxpayer is
a stockholder and my success or tail
ure will depend on lust how well
manage the Job" The governor said
that this visit was not to be cons,d-
cred as a complete INVESTIGATION. He
had found, he said, little lun at
Olympia and decided to spend the DAY
oyer here looking ovsr the project He z.
said the Investigations would be con-
tirmed, Including possibly other visits
bv himself and Mr.. Barnes, until ev-
erv one had been given hearing and
he had assembled all the pertinent
information regarding the settlement
and the district, after which he and
Mr.. Barnes would make known their
policy regarding the project. :.
Governor Hartley gave no hint as
70 what. he has in mind about his tu.
ture policy, if he has any developed
plan. unless such hint could be in
ferred when he said, ut has been my
experience and observation that moth
;ry in this world is worth having that
YOU do not have to work hard for;
the things that come essv or that you
get for nothing are seldom worth
much and generally go as easily as
thew come"
The party left about o:a0 in the eve
ming for Yakima, intending to catch
. night train for the Coast SO as to be
In Olympia BY Monday noon.