White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-01-28

lition to work now under contract will
be undertaken before April 1. In
the Spokane district s1,00O,0O0 will be
spent.
The General Construction company
of Seattle has been awarded the con-
tract for work on the Kennewick high
line irrigation project on bid Of
s131,3S6, according to word received
at Kennewick. Prosser will be the
center of operations.
Exports Of lumber from Washing
ton, Oregon and British Columbia by
water during 1881 totaled 3,616,G11 900
feet. decrease of 17.6 per cent from
1880, when the total was 4,390,200,S03
feet, the Pacific lumber inspection
bureau announced at Seattle.
The Chelan County Ministerial as
sociation has completed plans for the
cooperation Of 20 churches in visiting
5000 families in Chelan county Sun
day afternoons. Five hundred teams
will make efforts to visit all families,
regardless of religious utilization.
State Director of Game and Fisher
les Maybury has purchased 10 tons
of hay to feed starving deer in Ferry
county. The deer range in an area
burned over by a forest fire last sum-
mer and what little pasturage there is
is covered with three feet of snow.
Traffic over Snoqualmie Pass high
way becomes more popular every year,
according to highway department en-
gineers. During December 10,O95 ve-
hicles travelled east over the pass.
This was an average of $50 per day.
Last year the average was 1926 per
day.
Her coat catching on school bus
from which she alighted, Alice Hutton,
IA, Tonasket, was thrown under the
bus wheel and killed last week. Three
other children witnessed the accident.
P. Mel. German, driver, continued
his trip, not knowing Of the girls
death.
At the annual election in Newman
township $4,000 was voted for roads.
A resolution was adopted requesting
the governor to call special session
Of the legislature to put through
measure diverting SO per cent of the
gasoline tax to counties for road and
school purposes.
The back-to-the-land" movement
has been so pronounced in the Ocosta-
Grayland- Westport district, on the
south side Of Grays harbor, that the
consolidated school district has been
! forced to open up new schoolhouse.
Enrolment in the Ocosta school has
increased 33 per cent during the past
three months.
Good progress in clearing the tenn
porary route of the Ocean Beach high
way between Skamokawa and Grays
River is reported by the state high
way department. Orders were issued
recently to build camp near the sum
nit Of KIM mountain for road crews.
The road should be open for tourist
travel this summer.
About 100 men resumed employ
ment in Grays Harbor industrial
| ,N11 he Inr
Plywood company plant started
work on q one-shift basis and employ.
! ed about rs men and the Single mill
Of the Aloha Lumber company at
Aloha resumed operation with about
| % men at work on four machines.
According to the published list of
property taken over for taxes, to be
sold by Klickitat county, there is
total of 1850 acres of land outside of
the towns In the county to be sold.
There are also many town lots and
blocks in the towns Of Goldendale,
Centerville. White Salmon, Cleveland,
Cliffs, Lyle, North Dalles and Roose-
Welt to be sold.
Less than "a hours after the Entiat
State bank closed last week and w.
d. Wilson, cashier, was arrested, he
was sentenced to one to five years at
hard labor in the state penitentiary.
Wilson confessed publishing false
bank statement after he had lost
money in private speculation with
bank funds. G. H. Moody, state bank
examiner, is in charge Of the banks
affairs.
A contract was awarded recently to
construct building 40 by 60 feet for
the Gas, Ice company of Seattle, who
have long lease on the Klickitat Min
eral Springs property, one mile west
of Wahkiacus on the Goldendale
branch of the S. P. &c S. railroad.
Liquid gas and dry Ice are to be
made from the carbon-dioxide gas