White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1929-11-08
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST

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of Our Readers.
The Hotel Willard at klamath Falls
is to be enlarged by the addition OF
"a rooms from an adjoining building.
Fire destroyed the Horton Lumber
company mill at Horton, near Junction
City, doing damage of thousands OF
dollars
The Oakland Oil company is again
signing up large acreage in the Suth.
erlin district in preparation for re.
sumption of drilling operations at the
Leeper Dome.
A person licensed in the state of
Oregon to practice chiropractic may
also practice physiotherapy, accord.
ing to legal opinion handed down
by the encouragement.
The huge task Of lining the three
great tunnels of the Vale project with
concrete is nearing completion. The
tunnels will provide short cuts for the
main canal Of the Vale project.
Probably the largest deer ever seen
in Bandon was brought in by S. l..
Shumate on his return from hunting
trip to klamath county. 1t was six.
point deer and weighed 243 pounds.
The Bly, Water company, supplying
water to the residents of BLY,, in Kla.
math county, has purchased two more
wells from J. G. Edsall, with sufficient
ground for pumping plant, and rights
Of way for two additional mains.
After securing oil land leases on
some 10000 acres in the Harvey val.
ley, an oil company will drill its first
well on the Culp ranch, IL miles west
Of Crane. It is to be test we'll, IL
Of which will be drilled in the valley.
Hazards Of night driving will be less
during the coming winter months If
Secretary of State Hoss is successful
In his plans to eliminate the lone.
eyed" automobile, or cars with only
one headlight, from the Oregon high
ways.
Construction work on the third plant
of the Western Lumber company was
started on the outskirts of klamath
Falls recently, according to an an
nouncement by Irving e. Kesterson,
vice-president and general manager of
the company.
President Hoover will be presented
with the box of Wasco county apples
that won the sweepstakes award at
the Pacific international Livestock ex-
position, it was announced by I. f.
Sandoz of The Dalles, who grew and
packed the fruit.
The Barley Packing company, op-
Grating a plant at Rainier, has finished
the seasons pack ON beans, having
put up about 10000 cases. A consid
cradle portion of the beans came from
the Scappoose delta lands and were
of excellent quality.
The late potato crop in Columbia
county will be at least 40 per cent
short and possibly more, according to
reports received by George A. Mel
son, county agent. Dry weather of
| the summer and fall Is responsible for
the small yield, he stated.
Harvesting of klamath county's po-
tato crop is in full swing. Shipments
are going out at the average rate Of
20 cars per day in addition to truck
shipments. About 300 cars have been
shipped to date. ALI shipments are 60
ing to the California market.
While large number of fire look
outs in Crater National forest have
been dropped, the lookouts at the
Dutchman peak and Tallowbox noun
tain stations and the emergency look
out at Robinson Butte will be kept on
duty until general rains come.
The fill is completed in Palmer
creek at the west city limits of Day.
ton on the Dayton-McMinnville high
way. The Dayton bridge spanning
the Yamhill river at west city limits,
while not entirely completed, will be
opened to traffic within few days.