White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-02


| the board to pray for, his sin.
Mrs. Julia A. Crawford, SO, well
known pioneer Of the Klickitat coun-
try, who died at Blockhouse Mineral
Springs recently, came to the county
with her husband, William N. CraW-
ford, from Susanville, Cal, in 1877.
Simultaneous action on the part OF
| farmers in the sagebrush territory or
Benton, Yakima and Klickitat coun-
ties in the upper Columbia basin, will
be necessary to get rid of black-ta1led
| jackrabbits, according to experts OF
the United States biological survey.
The annual election of officers held
by the Skookum Tillicums (strong
friends), an association comprised of
natives of Clark county more than 30
years old, resulted in the choice OF
DR.. II. S. Goddard president, Louis
Wise secretary and T. L. Henrichsen
treasurer.
Fifteen thousand cases of Yakima
valley pears have been canned at the
Allen Packing company plant, located
on the public port dock at Longview.
This is part of an order for $4,000
cases on which the cannery is now
working, the entire order to be ship
ped to England.
The Union Oil company of Califor-
MIA soon will begin operations in what
promises to be the first comprehensive
test for Oil and gas in Pacific county.
The company has filed in the auditors
office at South Bend oil and gas leases
covering approximately 5000 acres of
Pacific county lands.
Work is to start soon on hangar
at Walla Walla airport and landing
lanes will be provided, A. c. Thomas,
president of the Airport association,
stated. Funds from the air derby held
in May, together with money advanced
by the chamber of commerce, will pay
| for the improvement.
The Longview Shipping company re-
| ports considerable increase in the
volume of business going over the port
| dock from Lewis county towns, parti-
cularly Chehalis and Centralia. On
| most items it is claimed that rates
are lower from the public port at
| Longview' than any other port for
| these points.
EARLY construction of the immense
power project on the Lewis river for
| the Northwestern Electric company,
on which their engineers have been
working for several years, is indicated
by the purchase Of several thousand
acres of land in the Lewis river valley
the past few days by e. r. Hunt, who
is said to be representative of the
company
Farmers of Clark county are taking
advantage of the good weather to
wind up the fall work. The potato
harvest is in full blast in all sections
of the county and will be completed in
about two weeks with continued good
weather. Many fields will not be har-
vested, growers say. The harvest of
ensilage has been completed and fall
blowing is under way.
Honey is light crop in Clark coun-
ty this year, bee men report, due to a
late, cold spring, which was followed
by a long dry spell. FLOWERS were late
in blooming and soon dried up because
of the lack of rain. Clark county
farmers were hard hit this year by
weather conditions. Apples, walnuts
and strawberries were the only prod
ucts showing full yield.
The value of cooperative enterprise
has been demonstrated by the success
Of the Battle Ground cheese factory
established by the Battle Grouno
Dairymen's Cooperative association
Five years ago the plant handled 3,
81O,474 pounds of milk during the year
This year up to October l the plan
has handled 13,5OO,OOO pounds of milk
The output in cheese for nine months
this year totaled 969,29O pounds.
Negotiations for a $7,000,O0O flou
mill m erger, embracing II mills of thu
Centennial Mill company in Washing
ton and the Montana Flour company
are under way, it because known il
Spokane recently. If the merger i
carried out along lines proposed, tn
combination will become one of tn
, largest flour milling enterprises in tn
: northwest, with combined capacit
of $4,000 barrels Of flour per day.
Fire swept the plant of the Harbo
Plywood company, in Aberdeen, de
stroying machinery, buildings an
stock valued at more than 100000
Only the power house, steam boxe
and peeler escaped damage. Nor
, than 100000 worth Of stock in tn
! warehouse was destroyed. The con
, pany located in Aberdeen four year
3 ago after plant at Sedro Woolle
, had burned. 1t was reported that tn
company will start rebuilding at one
} The Centralia city commission sigl
ed lease granting to George
: Barnes the use of property on tn
5 east side as site for brass foundr
3 which he proposes to erect. The leas
3 Is for SO years. Construction OF tn