White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-10-10

of three mills for the maintenance
and replacement of the water system.
After survey of water supply and
power dams conducted by the city OF
Seattle, announcement is made that
all cities of the northwest are appar-
emily assured enough power for devel.
oping electrical energy this winter.
Spinach growers are feeling the eff
fects of glutted markets, produce men
said. Ten carloads were shipped re-
Gently from Walla Walla, the growers
getting so cents for 4O-pound crates.
The crop will run about 100 carloads.
Commemorating the 10th anniver-
sary of the Spokane & Eastern Trust
company, of Spokane, R. L. Rutter,
president, has announced plans for
a new building to be erected imme-
diately at cost, including the ground
and equipment, of approximately ST.
100000.
The 1880 take of salmon eggs at the
Kalama-river hatchery will be not
more than rs per cent of the take last
year, which was below the average.
The total take is not expected to
total more than 100000 eggs, COM
pared with a take Of about 100000
eggs last year.
Kalama firemen and citizens be-
came sheep herders temporarily re-
Gently when a huge crate containing
rs to 80 sheep rolled from truck and
disgorged the sheep on a Kalama
street. After considerable effort the
sheep were reloaded and the streets
cleared for traffic.
Elimination of "a commercial and
trade courses from the curricula of
the college of business administra-
ton at the University of Washington
is announced by President Spencer.
1t is proposed to place the university
on purely cultural, scientific and
professional basis.
Henry Wilborney, Del Rio farm
er, has SOW that produced IL spotted
pigs as much alike as peas in pod.
Not one was lost and not one was a
runt. Ten days before they were six
months old each pig weighed 100
pounds. They were $3.50 breed Of
Duroc and Poland China.
The first attempt of an organized
Longview group to beautify nearby
highways was undertaken when the
civic department of the Longview
Womens club planted bulbs and seeds
at the base of the Stella falls and near
a drawbridge five miles west of Long
view on the Ocean Beach highway.
The celebration which commemo-
rated the opening Of the Grays Har-
bor-Willapa Harbor road was held re-
Gently. The formal dedication cere-
monies were held on the road midway
lowed by a jubiliation banquet at Ray
1nond, in the Willapa Harbor port
dock shed.
A full train1oad of Al cars of cedar
poles got out by Clark Studebaker of
Castle Rock, who represents the Ma
tional Pole company in the Kelso ter
ritory, left Seattle recently bound for
Minneapolis. Five thousand poles
were in the shipment, which is be-
lieved to be the largest single ship
ment of poles ever made.
Lawrence Voelker of Yakima, hav-
ing harvested "a boxes of apples to
the tree on his place in the Lower
Naches, claims the worlds record
yield. From 80 Winter Banana trees
he packed 875 boxes Of the combina-
ton grade Of extra-fancy and fancy,
and 269 boxes of G grade and Gull,
making total of 1144 boxes.
Damage to the prune crop by rain
will be offset to some extent by an in
crease in the yield of late potatoes,
according to reports from country dis
tricts in Clark county, but this in
crease will not help prune growers as
they have no potatoes. A bumper
potato crop is assured If frost does
not strike in the next two weeks.
Merrill Devore, and Maynard Rog-
ers, Is, Cowiche fruit ranchers, re-
turned from Seattle after accomplish.
ing the first known crossing of the
Cascades via the Naches pass high
way with motor-driven vehicle. They
used motorcycle and had no diff
Guilty except on the ungraded trail be-
tween the graded portions Of the high
way east and west of the summit.
A movement to have 597 acres here
tofore reserved for the government
townsite of Astor thrown open to set
| Element has been started by the Amer