White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-08-25

Sheep-Spring lambs. $4.00@475.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $6@650.
Hogs-Good to choice, $45OP4.60.
Lambs-Medium to good, $3.50@3.75.
Asotin county commissioners award
ed to l.. G. Fountain contract for one
mile of road on Montgomery ridge.
The Washington National Bank of
Tacoma, which failed last January, is
paying the first dividend, of 80 per
| cent.
Spokane county is preparing to ask
the federal government for loan of
$1,500,OOO for 75-mile concrete road
program.
Budgets for 1888, filed by Whitman
county officers recently, show prac.
tically the same estimated expense for
next year as was appropriated for
1882.
Construction of the concrete bridge
to span the Nespelem river below the
Nespelem dam, near Wilbur, has be-
gun. 1t will be about Is feet wide,
with 12-foot arch.
The Yakima Indian reservation
has been allotted $4,000 for highway
construction by the interior depart
ment. This is in addition to $4,000
apportioned in June.
The sale of 100000 feet of white
pine timber in the Priest river drain
age, by the Hu,nbird Lumber COM
pany, to e. G. Olson, logging contrac-
tor, was reported at Newport.
Grading is in full force on a farm
to-market road connecting the Palouse
highway, three miles west of Tekoa,
with the Fairbanks district. 1t is to
be graveled as soon as possible.
Skagit county produces most of the
cabbage seed used in the United
States, as we'll as the healthiest seed,
according to l.. K. Jones, associate
plant pathologist at the State college.
Indications are that the prune crop
of Clark county will be lighter than
last years. The crop is extremely
spotted. Some orchards are heavily
laden, while others are almost barren
Reduction of S12,O59,5S0, or almost
"a per cent, in the assessed valuation
of real property in Yakima county ex
elusive of railroad holdings is shown
in the tax rolls compiled by the as
SCISSOR.
Honoring Indian loyalty which has
held unbroken through the generations
, Spokane will dedicate memorial
park September 10 to Chief Spokane
Garry, known to early day settlers as
their friend.
The city of Charleston is seeking {
, $4,000 to $4,000 loan, through thu
, reconstruction finance corporation, tt
finance improvements of the loca
t swimming beach as an unemployment
, relief project.
Directors Of the Tieton Water Users
association have requested a loan o
$4,000 from the federal government
for the purpose Of adding so secon'
feet of water to the supply now avail
able on the project.
The output of apples this year fron
. the ennewick-Richland region will
q be about 600 cars, shippers estimated
1t will exceed that of 1881. Crop fai
|, ures in many states have led grower
e to hope for fair prices.
An increment of % new prisoner
= at the state penitentiary has brough
. the population of the prison up to 1881
9 an all-time record. To relieve the cor
gestion temporarily, 20 prisoners wi
d be sent to the state reforlnatory a
e Monroe.
4 The Lehigh Portland Cement con
pany plant at Metaline Falls he's re
/. ceived an order for over 40 cars c
d cement that it is now shipping ou
r 1t is going to state highway Jobs, on
l. near Spokane and the other near Da.
y ton.
Shorty" Warden, sheepman OF tn
Karter region of the Colville India
:, reservation, lost 200 sheep while trai
a Ing $500 head to Republic for shil
!, ment to an eastern market. The shee
h. punched" and trampled each other
death.