White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-24
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings Of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland

wheat - Big beuu UlueSIeu, uaTu
winter. 66c; soft white and western
white, 56hc; hard winter, northern
spring and western red. 541hc.
Hay-Buying prices, (. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa $14@14.5O; oats and
vetch, $1350@14.
Butterfat-Pound 10000.
Eggs-Ranch, 12@13c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $4.50@5.35.
Cattle-Choice steers, $625@7.
Lambs-Good to choice, $6@6.50.
Seattle
Wheat-Soft white, western white,
northern spring, SIC; hard winter.
western red, 55c; bluestem. CSC.
Eggs-Ranch, 14@16c.
Butterfat-Pound &c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.35@5.45.
Cattle-Choice steers, $6@7.
Sheep-Choice lambs, $6@6.50.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, s5.75@6.5O.
Hogs-Good to choice, $5.10@5.25.
Lambs-Good to choice, $5.50@6.
Finishing touches are being given
$4,000 airport terminal building at
Felts field, Spokane.
Grays Harbor trollermen are begin
ming to make the first big hauls of sal
mon from deep water off the north
coast.
Patrons of the Naches school dis
trict have asked the board of school
directors to reduce salaries next year
on sliding scale from Is to per
cent.
All outstanding warrant indebted
ness of Grays Harbor county to jan
uary 1, 1882, will be paid off by the
$4,000 refunding bond issue sold re-
Gently.
Farmers in the Othello district are
beginning field work, and seeding will
be general this week. The moisture
of the ground is greater than for many
years.
Adolph Olson, &C., Seattle bridge
builder, fell 80 feet to his death from
the Creed bridge on the National Park
highway in extreme eastern Lewis
county.
Snoqualmie Pass highway has been
closed to trucks by the state highway
department. On account Of much rain
and snow lately the road has become
soft in places.
Exemption from taxes of all farm
products in the growers hands for a
year after harvest was asked in a
resolution adopted by the Yakima
county grange council.
Loans totaling $1,179,300 have been
approved by the Spokane loan commit
tee Of the Reconstruction Finance cor
poraMon and of this amount $665,000
has been paid to borrowers.
Snowfall records Of AZ years. stand
ing have been broken in eastern Wash
ington. At Spokane the record for the
winter is 1876 inches, being exceeded
only by the winter Of 188990.
Approximately $4,000 has been
pledged for the proposed Walla Walla
cannery and the efforts to raise the
remainder Of the $4,000 needed will
be continued in the hope Of obtaining
It before fall.
A brood SOW from the farm Of Glen
Morrison Of Elma has made what Is
believed to be state record, farrow-
ing total of go pigs in one year. She
is a purebread O. I. G.. and is regis
tered Pearl 129975.
The big Diamond Match company
min at Cusick, 20 miles north of New.
port, has started Its seasons cut. 1t
is the first mill in the district to be-
gin operations. 1t employs about 100
men, all local labor.
The Higley house, three-story log
landmark on the shores of Lake Quin-
ault, burned last week. The building,
constructed entirely Of logs more than
20 years ago, was one Of the first
buildings in the lake country.
The Puget Sound Power G. Light
company crew started work on new
power line five and half miles long,
which will serve the Rose valley dis
trict where about so farms will be
given electric service by the company.
Grandview cherry growers have or.
ganized a 1892 pool and elected an ex.
ecutive committee. Negotiations are
in progress with several fruit firms
for handling the crop. A heavy yield
ia forecast by large setting Of buds.
-Four specially developed lilacs
grown by Mrs Huldah Klager OF Wood.