White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-05
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings OF
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.

Portland
Wheat = Big Bend bluestem, CSC;
soft white, western white, &C; hard
winter, northern spring, western red,
63c.
Hay-Buying price. (. o. b. Portland:
Alfalfa, $14.50@15.50; valley timothy
$3.50; eastern Oregon timothy. $3.50
$40; clover, $12; oat hay. $13; oats
and vetch, $13@13.50.
Butterfat-25@2Sc.
Eggs Ranch, 13@15c.
Cattle Steers, good, $8@8.25.
Hogs Good to choice, $7.25@8.25.
Lambs Good to choice, $7.25@S.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
bluestem, &c; western red, northern
spring, 64c.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@2Oc.
Butterfat-
Cattle Choice steers, s7.50@S.
Hogs-Good to choice, $S.15@S.25.
Lambs Choice, S7@7.5O.
Spokane
Cattle Steers, good, $7.5O@775.
Hogs-Good to choice, SS@S.15.
Lambs-Medium to good, $6@7.35.
Fifty Yakima hunters in a rabbit
drive in the Status district recently
killed 200 animals, Is of which were
brought to Yakima and distributed
among poor families.
A wheat surplus control meeting at
Lacrosse has signed UP more than
half a million bushels. Similar meet
ings are to be held at Tekoa, Palouse,
Cotton, and Endicott.
The monthly report Of the Walla
Walla Dairy Herd improvement asso-
citation shows that 3S5 cows produced
an average Of 26.7 pounds Of butterfat
in January at a cost of 25.3 cents per
pound.
Spinach is moving out of Walla
Walla valley by the carload. Prices
are low, due to competition from Cal
ifornia. Gardeners are taking chances
on an early season by transplanting
onions and lettuce now.
Fifty or go men will be given en-
ployment at Bellingham when the city
begins work on new pipe lines from
four streams to Lake Paddle, the South
Bellingham water basin. The project
will require several months work.
Thomas Edward Lyse, 7-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Rasmus Lyse Of Aber-
deem, died of gasoline tank explo-
sion. The lad was hurled several
yards by the explosion, which was
caused when playmates lit matches
near the gasoline tank of a digging
machine.
Exhaustion of organic matter in the
soil without replacement has caused
deterioration in quality Of the fruit in
parts of the Yakima valley, Professor
s. s. Vandecaveye of Washington
State college said at the closing ses-
sion Of the Yakima young farmers
conference, held recently.
Thirty miles Of 24-inch steel pipe
will carry domestic water from the
Icicle river in the Cascades to the res
ervoirs Of Wenatchee and towns be-
tween Wenatchee and Leavenworth If
the city commissioners of Wenatchee
adopt the plan submitted by Marvin
Chase, pioneer irrigation engineer.
Formal dedication of the new $780,
900 bridge across the Yakima river
at Prosser will take place some time
in April, according to w. G. Sommers.
The plans have been delayed until
| April to enable Governor Hartley and
Samuel j. Humes, state highway di-
rector, to be present for the dedica-
| ton ceremonies.
Workmen are tearing down the old
Outlook school building which has
served it's purpose as an education
institution since 1898. Dilapidated
and crumbling, the old structure has
been replaced by an entirely new
brick building. Glasses have already
moved into the new school and formal
dedication services were held Febru-
airy 25.
Approximately $4,000 will be ex-
pended on Skagit county roads this
year, according to figures just reveal
ed by the board Of county commits
sioners of Mount Vernon. OF this
amount, nearly half will be expended
for the improvement and maintenance