White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-23
W. B. Jameson of Sumner had the

The various county port dlstrlctS III
the state have received a total OF
S3S, 495 in the semi-annual distribution
of harbor Improvement funds. Inc
Port of Seattle received the largest
amount, $1S,714. The fund comes
from leases of tide lands.
The last carload of 1880 apple crop
has been shipped to New York from
Wenatchee. At the same time the
first carload of 1881 crop has been
shipped to Seattle. 1t was OF summer
apples. The 1880 crop in the Wenat-
chez district totaled 1S.290,000 boxes
Near Stratford in the Big Bend coun-
try large mussels by the thousand
have been discovered since small
lake went dry. The mussel resembles
the salt water clam on the outside.
The inside Of the shell is mother OF
pearl and far more beautiful than the
salt water clam shell.
A committee of the Pend Oreille
county tax league has recommended
to the county commissioners that az
ricultural land that has been taken
over by the county for taxes be put
up and sold for $3.50 per acre and that
everyone between ages Of Fl and 60
be taxed 81 per year.
A new hall built by Fisher grange
near Ellsworth at cost of $4,000 will
be dedicated July Is. The program
includes horseshoe pitching, chicken
dinner and dancing; also the grange
will celebrate the 10th anniversary of
its organization. 1t was originally
known as Preston grange.
Due to the increase in fruit produc-
ton, especially pears, in the White
Salmon district, the Underwood Fruit
& Warehouse company, owners of the
largest cold storage plant In White
Salmon valley, is expanding the ca
pacity of its refrigeration 40 per cent.
The present capacity is 100 carloads.
First certified wheat samples re-
ceived at Walla Walla from Portland,
where they were tested officially, have
proved a disappointment to dealers
and growers, as they tested light and
had considerable smut. The prelimin-
airy tests, dealers say, are not quite
representative of the average crop in
the valley.
Plans for construction Of a $4,000
hotel building at Grandview have been
completed by j. w. De Young, Port
land architect. The hotel is to be
erected as a community project and
more than half of the funds have been
| raised, according to information re-
ceived from DR.. Kirk Brown, mayor
Of the city.
Harvesting Of bumper crop of
blackcap raspberries is in full swing
on Yelm prairie, which is the largest
planting of this fruit in western Wash
ington. Due to heavy June rains, the
berries are of exceptionally fine size
and quality. Total acreage is around
700 to 500. Pickers are earning Ia
cents a pound, with an added bonus
of u cent pound if they remain
throughout the season.
IT believe we have the looper
licked" declared G. S. Chapman, chief
forester of the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company, following an inspection Of
the scene Of the aerial warfare being
carried on in the lower Naselle valley
against the hemlock Topper insect pest.
According to Professor Paul Keene,
United States entomologist, who is
checking results of the campaign from
the ground" Chapman said, 1--WE have
killed 80 to 80 per cent of the loopers
in the area busted"
w. e. Bishop presented figures on
Lewis county tax increases at re-
cent chamber Of commerce luncheon.
Mr.. Bishops compilation, made up
from annual statements of the audi
tors office, showed that within the
last 80 years expense at the court
house had increased from $15,906 in
1900 to $239,442 this year; the popu-
lation increasing meantime from 49,
157 to 40,034. Expense of indigents'
care increased from $3247 to $39,041;
county poor from S4685 to S36,129.
Long-awaited automobile ferry serv-
ice to Hampton, Deep River and other
Grays bay points Of western Wahkia-
KUN county went into effect recently
when a new and quicker route was
established with the installation of
ferry service from the lower Columbia
river towns on the Washington side
to Astoria. The new auto ferry oper-
ated by the Knappton Towboat COM
pany of Astoria, which has purchased