White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-08

There are $4,000 bales of hops IN
storage in three Salem warehouses,
according to announcement made at
Salem. These bales contain approx.
mately 100000 pounds of hops.
With the exception Of two major
projects, road work in Columbia coun.
ty for 1929 is about over with practi.
cally all of the road funds expended,
according to Roadmaster Barney.
The pheasant hunting season in Co
lumbia county, which closed recently,
was satisfactory to majority of the
hunters. The birds were plentiful in
the lowlands along the river as well
as in the uplands. The deer hunting
season, however, was disappoint.
ment.
James Wolfe, a fisherman about
four miles up Alsea river from VALID
port, reports that one night recently
IA tons, mostly silver salmon, were
caught by himself and his immediate
neighbors. The salmon run this year
has so far been the best for number
Of years.
The $4,000 home of A. W. Peters,
Pine Grove orchardist, was destroyed
by fire recently. The fire, which or.
iginated in defective flue, had such
strong hold on the building when
the fire department from Hood River
arrived that there was no chance Of
saving the building.
The Apple Growers association of
Hood River has taken lease on the
vinegar plant for year. The A. G.
A. will use this plant as an outlet for
the Gull apples of the valley that
cannot be put through the cannery.
Cores and Feelings from the cannery
also will be utilized.
Dogs have killed eight thoroughbred
lambs belonging to Sherlock & Sons,
in Lake county. The animals were
valued at 5000. Because the county
imposes penalty Of 500 against each
owner of sheep-killing dog, num-
Der Of ranchers are reported doing
away with the CANNES.
The Oldest living woman graduate
Of Oregon State college, Mrs. w. H.
Whitby Of Benton county, has been
made an honorary member Of the
American Association of University
Women. She was member of the
class of 1871, IA years before the col
lege was taken over by the state.
The state game commission has
treated Malheur county generously
this fall. Various kinds of trout have
been planted in several Of the fishing
streams, the Malheur river and its
branches. A consignment of 10000
eastern brook trout was planted in
the Warmsprings reservoir at River
side recently.
Nearly 100000 pleasure seekers
visited the national forests of Oregon
and Washington in 1929, according to
a. report just issued by the district
forester from his office in Portland.
The IA national forests of Oregon at.
tracted 1,S37,Ss6 visitors, while the
eight national forests of Washington
had 1,O36,795 visitors.
The first carload of copper ore from
the Blue Ledge mine, now undergoing
extensive development, was shipped
from Medford last week to a Tacoma
smelter. The mine is 80 miles from
Medford, but five miles of the road
near the mine is in such condition
that inclement weather will make it
impossible for trucks.
The only hostelry in the town Of
Rufus, a pioneer structure of that COM
munity, burned to the ground after a
fire had started, presumably in the
kitchen. The hotel was built more
than 30 years ago and was moved
few years ago when the Old Oregon
Trail highway changed the routing Of
traffic through Rufus.
The ferry Oregon, purchased by the
state highway commission for traffic
between North Bend and Glasgow, on
the Roosevelt highway, was put into
service recently after being overhaul.
ed and put into condition at the Kruse
& Banks shipyard. The ferry accom-.
modates SO automobiles, twice the
number the Roosevelt could carry.
Stock worth $685. 22 was shipped by
the Wallowa County Marketing asso.
citation in the first year Of its opera.
ton, as shown by report just made
by County Agent Donaldson. More
than half the shipments consisted Of
hogs. Donaldson also reported the
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