White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-09-04
Washington News

lNGHAM-MOLlOn pictures OF
the headwaters of the Baker River,
source of the Puget Sound Power &
Light Company's power plant at Con-
crete, were taken in the Austin Pass
country Of the Mount Baker district
last week under the direction of w.
d. Shannon of Seattle, general super
intendent Of that power project. Mr..
Shannon, who accompanied the oper-
ator, Charles r. Perryman of Seattle,
also had shots taken of a Mount
Baker Notwithstanding EXPEDITION,
conducted by members of the Mount
Baker Club, at the invitation of Man.
ager B. W. Huntoon of the Mount
Baker Development Company, which
is building a $25O,0OO hotel. The
mountaineers were Will D. Pratt, the
clubs president; w. L. Cochran, Jerry
Smith and G. A. Fisher.
YAKIMA. = Approximately 100000
pounds of explosives were used in
the construction of the Teton dam on
the Tieton River, at Rimrock, Wash
ington, which is part of the great
irrigation project in that section, says
A. w. Stanchfield, in recent issue of
du Pont Magazine, just received here.
Among the problems of the explosives
experts were driving tunnel to take
care of the diverted waters of the
| Tieton River while construction of
the dam was in progress, the excava-
ton of porous material which over
laid the bedrock in the river channel
TO the depth Of ninety feet, and get
ting out material for the fills. At the
crest the Tieton dam is 900 feet long
and 25 feet wide. The total height of
the dam from foundation to crest is
321 feet and from river bed to crest,
1913 feet. 1t is said to be the highest
dam Of its kind in the world. The
damming Of the Tieton River will
flood $500 acres; the resulting reser-
voir will have gross capacity of
202,5O0 acre-feet of water, sufficient
to irrigate 10000 acres
PORT TOWNSEND. - Poultrymen
of Jefferson County are planning to
erect a warehouse to facilitate the
handling OF feed which is being
bought comparatively. Two pooled
carloads of feed have been delivered
and start is being made on the third
car The poultrymen have put up
their own guarantee in the form of
joint note. Permission has been Sc
cured to build the warehouse on an
unused portion of q city street. Later
the feed committee hopes to hire It's
own agent to handle the pooling of
the cars and distribution of feed.
SHELTON.-Plans are being work
ed out by Mason County merchants
and local farm organizations to use
local produce in preference to outside
supplies as long as the quality and
grade is as good. This will include
dairy, poultry and crop produce, which
will be graded and packed in stand
ard way.
RITZVILLE.-The wheat yield in
Adams County is double that of last
year, and will be one of the most
profitable crops that the farmers have
had for several years. The yield av-
erages about IL bushels, varying from
rs to or 10 in the poorer sections.
Fully 80 per cent of the wheat har-
vested is spring wheat. Early Baart
has given the best results. Farmers
tried several other varieties this year,
but these did not yield as high in
quality or amount, as rule, as did
the Early Baart.
Pc ELL. Local interest in the
poultry industry last week was stimu-
lated by meeting at the high school
auditorium, at which John G. Law
renee, manager of the Winlock branch
of the Washington Cooperative Egg
and Poultry Association, and ]. II.
Narcotic of Winlock, and George q.
| Shoup, poultry expert at the State Elk
pertinent Station at Puyallup, were
speakers.
PASCO.-Louis Norling brought to
the office of his brother, Sheriff Fred
Norling, four onions of the Yellow
Danvers variety, the largest Of which
weighed three pounds, and none OF
which weighed less than two and one
half pounds. The onions were grown
on the Norling ranch, about IL miles
up the Columbia. Norling harvested
1873 sacks of onions, none less than
two inches in diameter.
Oleomargarine production figures
for May, 1926, as indicated by taxes