White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-04-02

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Cattle-Steers, good, $7@750.
Hogs-Good to choice, $8.25@S.35.
Lambs-Medium to good, 1907.
Taxes paid by the Great Northern
railway in 10 counties total $1,S23.374.
Spring building is starting early this
year in Walla Walla, several new
homes being under construction.
Construction of patrol sheds at Har-
rington, Odessa and Ritzville will be
carried on Immediately by the state
highway department.
Two cesspool diggers, Ray Haffley,
%, and Tom Boland, AZ, were suffo-
Gated at Spokane when a cesspool
they were digging caved in.
The first anniversary Of the opening
of the Longview Columbia river bridge
was observed March 20, with special
rates for crossing the bridge.
Arson S. White, early Indian fighter
and a resident Of Washington for so
years, died recently at his Cowiche
ranch home. He was an uncle of At
torney General Dunbar.
Lake Cushman, reservoir for Taco
mas Cushman power project, is now
body of water about 10 miles long
and about a mile wide on the average.
The basin contains 100000 acre-feet
of water.
Representatives of the irrigation
districts in the Yakima and Kfttitas
valleys and of the reclamation service
met at Yakima recently to work out
program for economical use Of water
this season.
The appointment Of John w. Allen
as supervisor Of the division Of saw
ings and loans has been announced by
H. G. Johnson, director Of efficiency.
He is the third man to hold the office
in as many months.
Ships engaged in the foreign trade
have increased their calls to the port
Of Longview considerably over what
they were year ago and the month
of March has had more than for sew
eral previous months.
Burning of stumps with the aid of
vacuum cleaner will be demonstrated
In King county during the week of
May II by R. N. Miller, land clearing
specialist Of the extension service of
Washington state college.
Bagley park will be the official
speedway for the southwest Washing
ton section. Between $4,000 and $751;
900 will be spent in rebuilding, repair
ing and oiling the track, and in recon
structing fences and guard rails.
e. H. Adams, who operates a num-
Der Of tie mills in the vicinity of Ka-
lama, has obtained contract to cut
100000 feet of ties for China. The
contract will keep his mills operating
at full capacity, employing about 100
men.
The D. S. Bridgefarmer herd, Wood.
land, led the large herds of the Cow
litz County Dairy Herd Improvement
association for the month of February,
the report of H. H. Laudermilk, tester,
shows, averaging 1910 pounds of but.
terfat.
The Lewis county commissioners,
constituting the Southwest Washing.
ton Fair board, together with Secre.
tary Somerville, have begun plans for
the 1881 exhibit late in August. Indi
cations are that the showing Of the
All boys and girls clubs will be an
outstanding feature of the fair.
State Senator Knutzen OF Burling.
ton was reelected as president of the
United Dairymen's association, repre-
senting $4,000 dairymen who did
business Of more than $12,000000 last
year in their cooperative owned milk
products plants in Washington and
Idaho. Gerrit Vandergriend of the
Whatcom County Dairymens associa
ton was named vice-president: L. E |
Perry Of the Yakima Dairymens asso |
citation, treasurer, and Mrs. Pearl Pow.
ers OF the Consolidated Dairy Prod.
acts company, Seattle, secretary.