White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-09-12

Due to the low price of both dried
and green prunes, the packing plants
at Vancouver will can large tonnage
this year.
A gas we'll testing 100000 cubic
feet of gas day has been struck in
the Benton county oil fields. The COM
pany started work May 16 and struck
gas at 72O feet. Plans are being made
to drill another well. This is the 18th
producing well in the field.
The wheat crop Of the Palouse dis
trict is heavier than expected. Some
land is yielding 60 bushels to the acre.
The average yields were from 80 to 40
| bushels. Most of the elevators are
full and the wheat is being piled on
| platforms adjoining the elevators.
Most lots of Bartlett pears reaching
Yakima processing plants contain ex-
tremely few culls or No. 2 pears. Some
lots grade all No. Is. This is especial
ly true Of fruit coming from orchards
where greater efficiency has been ex-
ercised in production than in small
orchards.
The cornerstone Of Centralia's new
Presbyterian church was laid with q
program that included an address by
Rev. Mark A. Matthews Of Seattle.
The new church, furnished, will repre-
sent an expenditure of $4,000. Its
dedication has been set for Sunday,
November 2.
A dry weather record OF ~ years
| was broken during the year, Septem-
Der 1, 1929, to September 1, 1880, &C
cording to A. A. Gutenberg, govern
ment observer at Vancouver, who has
| records dating from 1850. The total
rainfall was 24.52 inches compared
with 1851 in 1S64-'65, the previous low
record.
Motor vehicle license business re-
ceived by the treasurer's office from
January 1 to August 81 of this year
was greater than for all of last year,
Charles w. Hinton, state treasurer,
has announced. For eight months Of
this year the total was $7,S9,S27.25.
For IL months last year it was $780,
424.5O.
Olympic national forests are being
menaced by mysterious tree moth
hemlock trees and killed hundreds OF
them, according to reports brought
back from the national forest area.
| The moth builds a cocoon in the ten
der tips of the trees and later green
worm is Matched which eats the green
| shoots.
S. J. Humes, state highway direc-
tor, has announced that bids will be
called this fall for construction of
bridge over the Walla Walla river at
Wallula. This step will be the first
on the part Of Washington toward con-
struction of the Wallula cutoff which
will greatly shorten the distance to
Portland from eastern Washington
points.
The foreman of the packing depart
ment Of the Underwood Fruit and
Warehouse company at Underwood re-
ports what is believed to be record
pack of apples for one day in the mid
Columbia district. With one six Sec
ton Cutler grader, IL sorters, IL pack
ers and one lidder, 1858 boxes of Win
ter Banana apples were washed and
packed. i5fs ::as..l.ias.,4,.
Flax straw of the 1880 crop is pour
ing into the plant of the Pacific Coast
Linen Mills company at Vancouver,
and men are busy removing the seed
preparatory to retting. About 300 tons
of straw will be on hand when all is
delivered at the plant, according to
President Robinson. Flax experts de-
clare that fiber grown there is equal
to the best imported fiber. ...s.,.
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Mayor D. O. Nugent, addressing the
Kiwanis club recently, announced that
Centralia's new $1,O00,00O hydro-elec-
trio plant on the Nisqually river will
be completed by September Is and
that operation will be stated October
/. Opening of the plant will be the
occasion for four-day celebration, a
feature of which will be an electrical
exposition at the auditorium.
The sixth month Of the testing year
for the Cowlitz County Dairy Herd
improvement association shows five
COWS that averaged over SO pounds
each per month and over 300 pounds
each for the six months. The $40 cows
tested during July for the 81 members