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

mot 4 hundred miles from here,
Wenatchee mas little sister.
'SShe d very like our valley and
its. Scres Of fine orchards, still young;
she watches her older kin; is interest,"
"a Ii her development that she may
gain By the others experience and signs
ior the day when the commissioners
81 Grant County will find way to
improve 20 miles OF road through a
veritable desert which now lies be-
tween the two sisters
"This young kin is located under a
long, imposing, white faced bluff that
borders. one bank of the Columbia
river for several miles; and from the
chalk like precipice she derives her
name, White Bluffs. She enjoys a
stragetic location near the center OF
the valley that follows the Columbia
from Priest Rapids to Hanford. a
valley nearly twenty miles long"
IN those three paragraphs, Fred
G. Koch. special writer on the Wen
atcllee World, introduced the story
Of his impressions Of this valley, re-
ceived when he visited here a week
ago last Sunday. His story, over two
columns long and with black face
type streamer, white Bluffs Pro-
duces cleanest Apple Crop" clear
across the page and illustrated with
a number Of scenes in the valley, was
published in last Saturdays Wenat-
chez World.
After explaining that the trip down
here was made in a Roosevelt
Straight Eight car and that the road
particularly between Beverly and
Wahluke could stand a lot Of inn
provement, Mr.. Koch continues his
story:
Nine miles below Beverly, at a
point that is the lonliest, and yet
bears the most highway direction
signs Of any spot yet visited on a
Daily World rnotorlog, the road
makes a turn to the left, about east
and goes virtually straight 10 miles
and then drops down through num-
Der of coulees into White Bluffs val
ley.
At the edge Of the Columbia the
road runs onto a little platform,
where the Kitty Grant will pick you
up at any time Of the day or night,
and transports you quickly across the
wide stream 70 the White Bluffs side.
The ferry was used formerly at Van
tage, but with the constructions Of the
million-dollar bridge there, it was
taken down to its present service, the
White Bluffs is a great sight
after you've crossed the 20 miles of
desert It's an oasis. Suddenly as
you drop down from The barren
plateau and leave the desolate
coulees that lead the road down to
the river Terry, you see 4 speck OF
green. ii is. a field ofs Alfalfa, and
~ it's ~ n d1r5ifss IL III oa1is III rs Z
desert traveller.
You may wonder why White Bluffs
ought to be called sister. That's
easily explained It's location is in a
valley through which flow the same
waters Of the Columbia that pass by
Wenatchee only few hours earlier
the climate is similar to Wenatchee's,
although the season is probably one
to two weeks earlier; then, as a
clincher, it is fruit section, like our
own, with the same vital interests
that Wenatchee has.
WHtc 01uIIS &TOWeIE are especially
interested in Wenatchee, for no other
section in the, state specializes in
raising to the extent Wenatchse does
and the progress made here is model
ed after great deal by. the White
Bluffs valley growers. Through the
Wenatchee Daily World these or
chardist get more fruit news thar
through any other newspaper that
reaches their town--another means
by which the contact between the
two fruit sections is maintained.
"What we need down here is set
tiers" number Of the conunercia
club o. White Bluffs declared. "Ths
right kind Of settler here win make
good. A man who wants to work-not
man who wants to get ricf