White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-02-11
Merging of the work of the Grays

forced culling of the least productive
stock is being urged upon the dairy
men by Leslie S. Sorenson, county
agricultural agent.
Aid from nine counties in CAM
paign for tax reduction by decreased
expenditures has been pledged to
statewide organization formed at
Yakima. The counties that have
pledged are Chelan, Walla Walla, Yaki-
ma, Garfield, Spokane, Douglas, Lewis,
King and Snohomish.
The first in a series of district meet
ings of Yakima valley pear growers
Endorsed proposed state pear grade
for canneries and organization OF
state association combining district
growers pools, each of which is to be
represented on a committee that would
deal with the Gamers.
Approximately $4,000 was saved by
the state department of licenses this
wear in the distribution of 1882 auto
mobile license plates. According to
Charles Maybury, director of licenses,
the saving was made possible by the
flat So fee and acceptance of applica-
lions a month in advance.
Employment for 5000 men has been
provided by the state highway depart
ment's allotment Of 100000 in main
tenance and reconstruction funds
under the supervision of the six road
| district engineers. Men will be en-
ployed on basis of three days work
| a week. The wage scale will be $4
per day.
| Washington farm hands are among
the highest paid in the nation, accord
ing to reports on file with the state
department of agriculture. Monthly
wages in Washington average 1929
with board, compared to low averages
of $1443 a month in other states.
Those who "eat out" may receive as
high as $5145 a month.
An extension of nearly two years in
the period for withdrawal of waters OF
the Yakima river watershed has been
ordered by Charles j. Bartholet, super
visor of hydraulics, to enable the fed
eral government to complete it's plans
for the development of the Roza
Mckee and Kennewick divisions of the
Yakima reclamation project.
What was believed the largest cou.
gar ever captured in Washington lay
a pelt on the floor of the state depart
ment OF agriculture last week. The
huge cat measured more than II feet
from tip of tail to nose when it was
shot by State Hunter Jesse Michael
Michael made his kill on the Alwah
river in the Olympic peninsula. The
animal weighed 1875 pounds.
Plywood exports from Grays harbor
increased 100 per cent in 1881 over
1880, the annual report of the port
commission reveals. Pulp shipments
1 showed an increase Of 204S tons and
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totaled 339 tons. Another new cargo
. for Grays harbor in 1881 was 240 tons
of salt salmon shipped to Japan. Cas-
cara bark and flooring blocks also fig.
ured in the years shipments.
, In 1881 Collisions, Inc, fern shipping
1 concern, which occupies large plant
in north Chehalis, shipped upwards
OF 100000 worth Of ferns to eastern
and other markets, according to its
manager, Clarence Call.son. OF the
, money paid out for the product, gath
, cred from the Chehalis district, and
. from as far as Raymond, Randle, Port
, Angeles, Quinault lake and other
points, rs to so per cent goes to pick.
ers. some Of whom make from 81 q
day upwards.
A we'll 565 feet deep in which the
depth of water is said to vary as much
as 20 feet at various times during each
"a hours has been drilled by the Wulz
brothers on their south Newaukum
valley farm, ten miles southeast OIL
Chehalis. Many theories have been
advanced as to the reason for the rise
and fall of the volume of water in
this WELL which is the deepest in this
part of the state. Suggestion has been
made that it may possibly be due tc
D tidal action Of some kind, as the ele
walton is below sea level at the depth
to which the well has been driven.
j U. S. Dickey of the Consolidated
Diaries association said recently ii
Everett that the Snohomish County
Dairymens association has returned
S more money in dividends than any
Z other organization in the United States
L handling equal amounts Of milk undel
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