White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-25
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend bluestem, hard
white. soft white and western white,
b7c: hard winter, northern spring and
western red, 64c.
Hay-Buying price. I. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14@15; valley timothy $3.50
@16: eastern Oregon timothy, $3.50
1880; clover, SIT; oat hay. $11; oats
and vetch, $1O@10.50.
Butterfat-1S@21c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@16c.
Cattle-Steers, good, sS@8.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, $7.75@8.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.50@6.O0.
Seattle
Wheat - Soft white and western
white, SIC; hard winter, western red
and northern spring, 56c; bluestem,
60c.
Eggs-Ranch, 10000.
Cattle Choice steers, $7@8.
Good to choice, $7.75@S.
Lambs Choice, $7@7.5O.
Spokane
Steers, good, s6.50@7.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.50@5.
A large prune dryer, with a capacity
of 30 tons of green fruit daily is be-
ing built by ]. /. Donovan on the place
near Barberton in Clark county.
Fire, believed to have been started
by lightning, destroyed the Armstrong
Ice Machinery company plant at Spo-
kane. The loss was between $4,000
and $4,000.
To encourage diversified farming,
particularly in dairying and produce
and grain growing, Colfax people are
working up interest in fall festival,
or agricultural fair.
Washington state prison population
touched 1915 recently with the arrival
of six from northeastern Washington.
The addition makes new all-time
record for the institution.
E. w. (Dad) Jewett, SO, familiar
character of Colfax, died recently. He
was apparently in good health at noon
and had been reading a newspaper
when found dead in his chair at home.
At a recent meeting of the trustees
Of the Columbia River Development
league at Ephrata it was decided to
make renewed efforts to obtain rec
lamation Of the Columbia Basin prof.
ect.
Although the cherry tonnage in the
Grandview district will be less than
normal, the quality of the fruit will
be better than usual. Cherries are
ripening rapidly and picking has be-
gun.
Diamond giants of bygone years ap-
peared again at Seattle recently in
the old-timers' game to raise funds
for the building fund of the Associa.
ton Of Professional Ball Players Of
America.
A new $4,000 dam and power plant
to supply the growing demand for
light and power in Camas and Wash.
ougal will be built this fall on lower
Cougar creek. Plans have already
been drawn.
Embodying provisions contained in
measure sidetracked by the last leg.
islature a new regulation on state con.
troll Of straightforward and meat in
spection has been adopted by the state
board of health.
Pete Hills Of Carlisle, high climb.
er, is thinking of working in red
suit hereafter. An Indian hunter,
while Hills was topping tree, took
two shots at him, the hunter mistaking
Hills for bear.
A call for the construction of new
bakery at the Medical Lake state hos
pital has been issued by the director
OF business control. The new struc-
ture will be one-story brick at an
estimated cost of $4,000.
Reducing prohibitive license fee
for the sale of fire crackers to SIS the
Vancouver city council authorized the
sale within the city limits from June
30 to July s. Sale Of fire crackers
over three inches long is prohibited.
A crew Of road workers has arrived
at Walla Walla to begin work of re.
pairing the flood-damaged roads up
Mill creek, below the citys water in.
take. The work will take month to
complete. The road must be repaired
before the city can move its material
in to repair the city's water supply
line.