White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-04-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Bret Resume Of Happenings
Of the Week Collected Tor
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Wheat - Soft white and western
white, SIC; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, SIC;
bluestem, soc.
Butterfat-21c.
Eggs-Ranch, Is @ 16c.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 q 400.
Cattle-Choice steers, $500 @ $50.
Sheep-Spring lambs, $5.25 @ $50,
Portland
Wheat - Big Bend Bluestem, hare
wheat, 63Ac; soft white and west
ern white, SAC; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
53c.
Hay-Buying prices, T. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima. $14.O0.
Butterfat-15 @ Ice.
Eggs-Ranch, is @ Ice.
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ $50.
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @ Abs.
Lambs - Good to choice, $500 @
5.65.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good, $500 @ 5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1885 % 1856.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75 @
5.25.
W. F. Henderson, Hoquiam pros
pector and miner, is earning from 81
to So day extracting gold from the
sands between the Copalis and Point
Granville beaches. Henderson uses a
sluice box. He reports gold and plat
mum are present uniformly along
the beach with more to be found
near creeks and at bedrock. He said
samples taken by. him showed that
two yards Of sand produced between
As and SO cents.
Wheat farmers Of Oregon, Wash
ington and central Idaho are about
$6,750,000 richer today, on paper
at least, than they were January g..
That is the increased value the rise
in wheat prices has brought since
the first of the year, survey Of
wheat stocks from figures obtained
from railroads, private grain dealers
and co-operatives showed today.
Inability Of the reclamation serv-
ice to locate three former Ellensburg
residents, Emma A. Mitchell, Henry
D. Jones, and Chris A. Spnieler, who
have preference rights on Kittitas
valley homestead lands, is temper
arily delaying an early opening OF
~ homestead farm units, under the
government irrigation project.
Because Chelean county has the
necessary equipment but cannot bid
on its own jobs performed with state
gasoline money, Goodfellow Bros,
local contractors, have offered to
surface and oil most of the roads in
the Manson orchard district for $780,
440 and sublet the contract to the
county for $29,680.
The new logging camp of the
Brown-Etheridge Lumber company
Of Chehalis began operations on Win
ston creek this week. Gordon M
Brown, head of the concern, reports
that about 40 men are employed
About 100000 feet Of timber IL
included in the present cut.
The Yakima valley hop acreage
will be increased this year by 1000
acres. 1t is predicted that the new
acreage will increase the 1893 pro-
duction by 100000 pounds. Grow
ers estimate that the cost of starting
new fields will average 500 an acre
The Navotney brothers have
brought in $40 worth of gold from
their placer mine on the Columbi;
river. The flour gold taken was re
duced to nugget by retort and wal
brought here for weighing. 1t weigh
ed 10 grains less than two ounces.
Harold Bloom. son of Mr.. and Mrs
Ira Bloom, suffered a broken LEI
when he was kicked by a horse IL
the field at the Marion Walker farm
The boy dragged himself consider
able distance before searchers fount
him two and one-half hours later
The body of Carl Strom, 35, nigh
policeman, was found recently b.
officers in a warehouse across tn
street from the G. e. Bangham Stat
bank, and they said he was shot t.
death by men who attempted to ro|
the bank last night.
Rye bread sales have increased 4
per cent and lunch meats and chees
sales haze jumped 100 per cent a
Wenatchee since 80 per cent bee
was legalized, check among baker
and meat dealers revealed.
With favorable tides and suitabl
weather, exceptionally fine catche
of clans have teen reported durin
the past week along the north shor
beaches. CLANS are selling for abou
6h cents pound.
Under the lateral highway and tn