White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-05-16
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

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Contracts for continuance OF work
on the Goldendale Toppenish highway
have been let by the state director OF
highways.
Although Clark county prune orch
ards are still shedding young prunes'
there will be probably 40 per cent
crop, according to conservative esti'
mates.
Bellingham has a population Of 3d.
518, is the announcement Of the CEN
sus supervisor at the completion OF
the reoheck. This is gain OF 1883
over the census of 1920.
The state supreme court has upheld
former Judgment in ruling that form
er Mayor Cornell and Commissioner
| Sterling Of Wenatchee were not justt-
| fled in raising their own salaries.
Centralia Presbyterians recently
held their final Service in the church
building that has served them for 40
years. The building will be torn down
to make room for a new $4,000 struc.
ture.
The greatest growth in population
| in the Spokane district as shown by
the census is at Opportunity township,
which has population of $3.50 as COM
pared with 3278 in 1920, gain of near
ly 70 per cent.
Gasoline for the city Of Yakima will
be furnished until March is, 1881, by
the Sunset Pacific Oil company at
15k cents gallon, with minimum
limit of 10 cents. The figures bid in.
cluded the state tax.
Further curtailment of Northwest
lumber production or lowering OF
cost production rather than tariff
is seen by S. M. Barnard, Vancouver
lumberman, as the remedy for the
present lumber situation.
Fire of undetermined origin destroy.
ed the sawmill and most of the stock
of the Puget Sound Lumber company
at Tacoma. The loss was estimated
at 100000. Announcement was made
that the mill would be rebuilt.
The race to determine once for all
whether there is oil in commercial
quantities in Clallam county is on,
with three companies in the field.
The latest to enter is headed by H.
F. Alexander, prominent shipping
man.
Work is more scarce in Walla Walla
valley than usual, according to A. H.
Johnson, federal employment agent.
Registrations are far in excess of
places. Spring work on farms has
been finished and it is too early for
summer work.
OF great interest in Tenino and Blu
coda and southern Thurston county in
at Olympia recently by the Thurston
commissioners of the contract for the
new farm-t o-market highway between
Tenino and Bucoda.
In one of the largest orchard deals
in the Yakima valley in recent years
S. w. Grub has purchased the Mckee
orchard of 400 acres from syndicate
Of Kansas City capitalists. Including
cash and trades the sale involved ap-
proximately 100000.
The state highway department has
awarded contract for surfacing with
crushed stone 10 miles of the Nation
al Park highway between Elbe and Di-
vide, south of Mineral, in northeastern
Lewis county. Most of the grade for
this highway was completed last year.
The annual championship matches
of the Washington State Rifle associa-
ton will be held at Camp Bonneville
military rifle range, near Vancouver,
May 20 to June 1. About 100 experts
from Oregon and Washington will
gather for the shoot. Most of the Wis
itors will remain at the range, where
the 18th infantry has tents and mess
houses.