White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-06-04

Northwestern National Gas company,
stated at Walla Walla recently that
of Is holes his company has drilled
in the Benton county gas field only
| one is dry. The rest are all producing.
Saturday, June 81. has been set as
the definite date for Woodlands an
nual Planter-day celebration, when the
holding of the bikes that protect the
lowlands around Woodland from flood
| ing by the spring freshet in the Co.
lumbia river, will be celebrated.
The o. & w. Transit company has
applied to the department of public
works for authority to institute mo-
tor vehicle freight service between
Astoria, Or, and Ocean Park, Wash,
via MCGOWAN, Chinook, Ilwaco, Sea-
view, Long Beach and Nahcotta.
The new Jim Creek bridge on the
new Lewis river highway was opened
to travel recently, giving residents be-
tween Jim Creek and Rock Creek,
who have been isolated for more than
a week, road outlet. The bridge is
324 feet in length and 1876 feet high.
It is of timber construction.
Judge Fred Hedger of Walla Walla
believed four-seyenths Of his story,
but disbelieved the rest, and Fred
Gulick is out $50 in cash for possess
ing three small trout. Gulick con.
WINGED the judge that four fish had
shrunk after being caught, but three
showed too much shfinkage.
Walla Walla county will lose ap-
proximately $4,000 in taxes as re-
suit of the decision of the state tax
commission that grain owned by the
subsidiary of the federal farm board
is tax exempt. About one million
bushels of sterilization corporation
wheat was in the county March /.
The Okanogan bridge, which made
5000 acres of land available for agri-
cultural and commercial use, has been
opened officially, the principal speak
er at the ceremonies being Judge w.
G. Brown. Old settlers have dreamed
of such bridge since friendly Indians
permitted them to settle around Okan-
ogan.
Albert Baker has announced that
the Skyline road connecting Weston
and Dayton on the summit of the Blue
mountains will be open June 20. Mr..
Baker, who is district forest ranger,
stated at Walla Walla few days ago
that several crews of men are remov-
ing fallen timber from trails and
roads.
A memorial marker inscribed ITO
All Pioneers Who Passed This Way to
Win and Hold the West" will be I'M
yelled at Camp Montgomery on Sun
day, June IA. The Monday Civic club
of Tacoma has provided the marker
and dedication will be under the aus
pieces of the Washington State Histori-
cal society.
The Lewis river for mile below the
Ariel dam has been designated as the
Ariel salmon preserve by the state
fisheries department and has been
closed to all fishing, commercial or
game. Many salmon and other fish
will gather in that area when they
find their progress up the river is
blocked by the dam.
The reclamation bureau has an.
nounced bids for construction Of Gle
Elum dam would be opened July 10
at the Yakima office. Specifications
will be available by June 10. The dam,
an earth and gravel type structure,
will be 1876 feet high, and is to furnish
additional storage for the Yakima rec.
lamation project and Indian reserva-
ton there.
Lily growers Of Washington and
Oregon met in Centralia and took
steps toward an interstate organiza-
ton. Approximately 100 were in at
tendance from Vashon island, Tacoma,
Bellevue and Centralia in Washing.
ton. and Portland, Milwaukee and Can
by, Or. Sterilization Of prices and CO.
operative selling were discussed by
the speakers.
Banners denoting the schools as
"homes" of Pacific county's best grade
school spoilers we're added recently to
the trophy collections Of the Long
Beach and Naselle schools, as per-
manent possessions, while ribbons for
progress were awarded as follows:
Second class districts-Lebam seventh
grade, first, yearly progress, 1929 per
cent; Raym fifth grade. second.
22.O6; Long Beach seventh grade,
| third 20.44. Third class districts