White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-03-19

crop specialist of Washington State
College, gave the main lecture.
Violet Reid, 3-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Reid of Oak
Point, received burns that resulted
In her death recently. According to
her father, the child was playing about
the farm where stumps were being
burned, and her dress caught IRE.
Yellow pine trees in the Wenatchee
national forest are being killed at an
alarming rate by the western pine
beetle. according to Assistant super
visor G. J. Conover, who reported that
during recent years the weather has
been particularly favorable to the In
sect.
Colfax Grain Growers, Inc, has pur'
chased a string of seven wheat ware
houses from the Mark P. Miller COM
pany. The houses in the string are
located at Colfax, Manning, Blackwell,
Steptoe, Cashup, Thornton and Conan.
The reported consideration Is around
$4,000.
Southern Lewis county has a new
industry that is giving employment to
several men. Recently carload OF
curly maple logs was loaded at Win
lock by 3. 8. Layton Of Toledo for
shipment to Antwerp, Belgium. The
product Of the curly maple logs will
be used in making furniture.
Nearly 100000 game fish were
planted in lakes and streams OF Che
Ian county by the county game COM
mission during the past year and
plans are being made at present to
propagate even a larger number than
this during the coming year, accord
ing to Game Warden Bert Schaller.
Two hundred and forty-one loans
totaling $19,255 have been granted to
state college students since the start
Of the school year, according to re-
port by DR.. 3. G. Colpitts, chairman
of the student loan committee at Pull
man. During the same period last
year 22S loans were granted for total
of $16,412.
The Pend Oreille Mines and Metals
company operating near Metaline
Falls, stepped into a new place OF en-
inence in the mining world recently
when it's concentration on Flume creek
produced zinc concentrate rating
62.6 per cent for one day. This high
grade of zinc concentrate is believed
to be the highest produced in the
world.
About 5000 carloads Of apples re-
NAMED in cold storage in the Wenat-
chez district the first Of March while
shipments up to the middle OF March
were 21,241 carloads besides ESQ cars
shipped from Neppel and Coulee. Dur
ing February 2OS6 carloads of apples
were shipped and sixteen cars OF
pears, bringing the latter total to l,345
for the season.
Indications point to bumper 1881
cranberry crop in Pacific county, &C
cording to State Horticulturist ID. j..
Crowley Of Long Beach. The cranber-
ry growers in the Ilwaco district have
been nard hit the last three seasons.
The 1880 crop was less than one
fourth of normal, yielding but 1000
bushels, compared with average crops
of 10000 bushels.
Marking a new venture in Willapa
harbor forest industries, $4,000 board
feet of cottonwood logs, cut from trees
along the banks Of the Willapa valley,
have been shipped from the Willapa
harbor port docks on the steamship
Kowa Maru to the Fugita company IN
japan. The timber will be used ex-
perimentally in the mar ufac..-'e OF
matches in Japan. If the venture Is
successful more and larger shipments
will follow.
Three men were injured, one posi-
bly, fatally, when a large charge OF
dynamite exploded directly under the
truck in which they were riding. The
truck was hurled 100 feet. The acct
dent occurred on government road
construction on the Cispus river IN
the Rainier forest reserve and was
blamed on the fact that the road crew
had failed to post a guard to the east
of the spot, believing there was no one
in the forest.
Several individual irrigation prof.
ects are being undertaken this spring
by Indians of the Colville reservation,
according to H. G. Moore, Indian farm
er, with headquarters at Omak. Loans
are being made by the government for
pumping plants to irrigate land near
tho OLonouon rivar and some 400