White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-19

100000 plant of the Aberdeen Ply
wood company was started last Wed
nesday. Logs were run through the
seven and 1O-foot lathes and after the
layers of wood were run through the
driers were manufactured into ply
wood.
A service station and garage be-
longing to Andrew Teches three dwell
lings owned by George McDaniels,
James Drumoff and Walter Bivins, to-
gether with two barns, were destroyed
in Yakima last week by fire which
followed an explosion in the service
station about A. M. The loss is plac-
ed at about $4,000.
The Walla Walla valley crop of
fresh Italian prunes is almost ready
for harvest and shipments are sched-
uled by the board of directors of the
combined prune growers and ship
pers' associations to begin on August
%. The Prune Growers Cooperative
has estimated that the 1927 crop will
bring the growers about 100000.
During the year closing April 1, the
Washington State Elks association
gained 20 members while there was
decrease in membership throughout
the nation of 1926, Victor Zednick,
secretary of the state association, an
/ fol ,Iar Nf
the state association on April of
this year was 1858 as against 23,613
last year.
State timber appraised at 1884,
644.35; tide and shore lands at $21,-
464.53, and uplands at $1S,771.25, will
be offered for sale by the state land
department September g. Land Com
missioner Savidge has announced.
The offerings are located in 81 diff
ferent counties, descriptions of which
are available at the offices of county
auditors.
Sales of the Whatcom County Dairy
mems association were $1,353,694.57
during the first six months of this
year, according to the semi-annual re-
port of Accountant r. H. Gould. Sales
| increased 3.72 per cent over the pre-
| vious six months. A total of $685.
| 1888 pounds of milk were handled in
the half year, and manufactured into
butter and other products.
Plans for oiling two miles of Grand
view streets have come to sudden
halt with the discovery by the city
council that the cost of oiling and
maintenance of oiled streets will ex-
coed funds available for such purpose.
The two miles have been put in shape
for oiling and carload of oil is on
track, but the council is unwilling to
carry the experiment further
The deer hunting season in Cowlitz
county has been altered materially,
County Game Warden Leichardt has
announced. 1t will be from Septem-
Der 16 to October 1, with limit of
one buck deer, instead of for all of
the month of October, as was the case
last year. The bear season will be
from September lotto January / with
no limit.
| Lewis county came in for the lions
share of the work in six state highway
Improvement contracts awarded by
the state highway committee, four of
the jobs taking in 291A miles of road
in that county, more than rs miles be-
ing on the National Park highway.
One paving contract on the Pacific
highway in Skagit county also was in
Guided. Total bids for the six jobs
amounted to $152,6S146.
j. G. Palmer of Seattle, chemist and
bacteriologist for the food, drug and
insecticide administration Of the de-
partment of agriculture, arrived in
Yakima recently to take charge of a
laboratory to be established for analy-
sis of spray residues of fruit during
the shipping season The work is be-
ing done by the government as a pro-
lection against interference with the
shipment and sale of fruit due to re-
mains of poison sprays.
Production of 1872 mills reporting to
the West Coast Lumbermen's associa-
ton for the week ending August
was 123,775,979 feet, new business re-
ported aggregated 107,S03,590 feet and
shipments totaled 105, 874,O49 feet.
The same number of mills reporting
the preceding week produced 1885,
715 feet, sold 11,37S,450 and shipped
117,265,599, indicating an increase of
over 100000 feet in output and sharp
declines in both orders and shipments.
Paving of the Vancouver Salmon
Creek cutoff was started Thursday by
Albertson, Cornell Bros. & Walsh, and
will be rushed to completion, w. A.
Schwarz, state district engineer, said.
The distance is AT miles and the paw
ing will be finished by December 1,
though the road will probably not be
opened until January 1. A dangerous
stretch of the Pacific highway will be
eliminated when the work is complet-
ed. Repaving through Woodland, one
mile, will be started next week.
Net receipts on the interstate bridge
in July set new high record, accord
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