The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-04-27
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
(. OF the Week Collected Tor
Our Readers
THE MARKETS
Il. SEATTLE

SEATTLE
Wheat-Soft white and western
white, SIC; hard winter, west
ern red and northern spring,
SIC; bluestem, SOC. ..'7
Butterfat-21c. ... e. =
Eggs-Ranch, Is q Ice. "
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 @
400. 1..-zs e.. s..- ~. ..:-sss
Cattle - Choice steers, $500 q
$50. - .@....... .:>.-
Sheep ~ Spring lambs, s5.25 @
$50. ,r... ~ ts.|g.
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 631Ac; soft white and
western white, Sac; hard win
ter, northern spring and west
ern red, 53c.
Hay-Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.00.
Butterfat-15 q Ice.
Eggs Ranch, Is q Ice.
Cattle - Steers, good, $500 a
$50. .Z.I
Hogs-Good to choice, $3.50 q
4.35. ,.....ss
Lambs-G Good to choice, $500 a
5.65.
Spokane
Cattle - Steers, good, $500 a
SIS.
Hogs - Good to choice, 1886 q
1856.
Lambs - Medium to good, $4.75
q 5.25.
w. F. Henderson, Hoquiam
prospector and miner is earning
from 81 to So day extracting
gold from the sands between the
Copalis and Point Grenville beach
es. Henderson uses sluice box.
He reports gold and platinum 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,
Washington and central Idaho are
about s6,750,000 richer today, on
paper at least, than they were
January 8. That is the increased
value the rise in wheat prices has
brought since the first of the
year, a survey of wheat stocks
from figures obtained from rail-
roads, private grain dealers and
co-operatives showed today.
Inability Of the reclamation
service to locate three former Eli
ensburg residents, Emma A. Nit
chell, Henry D. Jones. and Chris
A. Spnieler, who have preference
rights on Kittitas valley home
stead lands, is temporarily de-
laying an early opening OF "
homestead farm units, under the
government irrigation project.
Because Chelan county has the
necessary equipment but cannot
bid on it's own jobs performed
with state gasoline money, Good
fellow Bros, local contractors,
have offered to surface and OIL
most of the roads in the Manson
orchard district for s30.440 and
sublet the contract to the county
for s29,6S0.
The Yakima valley hop acreage
will be increased this year by
1000 acres. 1t is predicted that
the new acreage will increase the
1898 production by 1,OOO,0OO
pounds. Growers estimate that the
cost of starting new fields will
average 500 an acre.
Rye bread sales have increased
40 per cent and lunch meats and
cheese sales have jumped 100 per
cent at Wenatchee since 3D. per
cent beer was legalized, a check
among bakers and meat dealers
revealed.
Mrs. Ida Fleischmann has been
named mayor of Rock Island by
the city council to succeed II. L.
Bartlett. The new mayor has i'm
mediately started mapping out an
improvement program.
By vote of to 2 the state
game commission has selected Lou
Oyenden of Wenatchee for the
post of state director of game. He
was formerly game commissioner
of Chelan county.
A concerted movement has been
launched at Colville to obtain
construction of a forest highway
from Kettle Falls to Republic UNI
der the proposed public works
program.
Moore Brothers, t h e largest
apple growers in the WaitsburgI
part of the Touchet valley, clean
ed up their 1892 crop when they