White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-03-21


estimated loss OF $4,000.
From Wenatchee it is reported that
work on the cofferdam at the Rock
Island damsite is going ahead with in
creased activity. following percepti
BILE rise in the Columbia river in the
last few days that threatens the work.
Desiring to assist local civic organ
izations In raising funds to finance
the trip of the Grandview juvenile
band to take part in the northwest
contest in Portland next July, a group
of women are planning pageant ear
ly In April.
Eggs worth about $4,000 will be
shipped from Bellingham, Seattle and
Tacoma to Buenos Aires on the steam.
ship Camargo. The shipment is the
first of several that will be sent to
South America by the Washington Co
operative Egg and Poultry association.
Thousands of acres of farm land
north and west of Walla Walla must
be reseeded. The land was sown last
fall. but weather conditions were not
favorable to termination. The main
trouble Is in lowland sections. In the
foothills little or no seeding will be
required.
Farmers in all sections Of Clark
county are busy with spring work.
pruning orchards preparatory to spray.
ing, blowing and planting early gar.
den. A few dry days has left the
ground in fine shape for working and
every available plow and tractor are
being used.
Sixty-seven tons Of rotary oil-drill.
Ing equipment were unloaded at AS
toria. Or, recently, for use at the Un.
lon Oil company well at MCGOWAN,
across the Columia river from Astoria.
The rotary rig will replace the stand
ard rig which has sent the hole down
some 1900 feet.
Forty-one thousand dollars worth
Of bonds of the Kalama Port district
were voted recently for the retire
ment Of outstanding warrants. The
bonds were favored by the two Ka-
lama precincts by vote of Alb to 20.
Two per cent interest annually will
be saved by the district.
The J. e. Argo family won an i'm
promptu and unprecedented lottery
recently by choosing the lucky chicken
at the Vancouver market. In dress
Ing the fowl for dinner, gold nugget
the size Of pea was found. The
chicken unwittingly had been using
the glittering pebble in grinding its
food.
The contract for grading the new
Lewis river highway extending about
ten miles up the river from the Inland
Power & Light Co. dam at Ariel, was
awarded to Hendricks & Co. of Che
halls by the Cowlitz county commits
sioners, its bid of $103,119.20 being
low for concrete pipe and box culvert
specifications.
Bids on the Olympic peninsula ex-
tension from Moclips to the Hob river
will be called soon, P. E. THAN, con-
sulting engineer of the Northern Pa
cific railway, announced at Hoquiam.
Contracts for the work will be let in
mid-April, with construction work
commencing Immediately afterward,
Mr.. THAN believed.
Summer suns and winter SHOWS
through 81 years did not destroy a
mining claim location notice in tin
can which was recently found in the
Deer Trail district by H. M. Howard
Of Spokane. The signatures were in
common pencil, together with the
printed word, were as easily read as
the day placed there, May "a, 1902.
Exceedingly few peaches will be
harvested in Benton county, accord
ing to Doyle Starcher, district horti-
cultural inspector. In the kennewick
district he reports inability to find q
live bud. but in the Benton City sec
ton lie found an occasional live bud
of the early liberia, but none of the
standard Elberta or the ]. H. Hale.
In the Klickitat county declamatory
contest held at Centerville recently,
Daniel Snively of Columbia Union high
school, White Salmon, carried off the
honors in class A. Other winners
were: Class B, Ruth Cochran. Center
Vile; class C. Mildred Suksdorf. Bin
gen; class D, Ardyth West of Sun
shine valley. Gold medals were award.
ed all these young people.
The special school election held in
each of the three districts Of Silver
Lake. Toutle and Slightly on the pro-
position to consolidate their schools
and permit the organization Of an ac-
credited high school resulted in defeat
of the measure when Toutle voted
against it. The vote stood: Silver
Lake. 33 for. 10 against: Toutle. 10
for. 40 against: Slightly. Is for. none
against.
O. e. Jones. "a, may die OF injuries
received when his automobile was
struck by Northern Pacific train on