Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-09-05
WASHINGTON news
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume Of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers

OhduOSdu-ILOuS,uly, OWN CARS VI
apples in the Wenatchee-Ok
district have signed up for an adver-
Using program.
Fairfield - The harvesting of the
10000 acres of seed peas in the
Fairfield district is being pushed to
the limit. Peas are running 8 to IL
sacks to the acre.
Stevenson - Aerial pictures de-
federal power officials that the main
power transmission lines from Bon
neville should be routed down the
north bank of the river have been
sent to Washington by the Washing
ton Bonneville commission.
Bellingham - A record, at least
for Whatcom county, is claimed for
Nathalia Smith, 16, who picked 455
pounds of string beans on farm
near Lawrence in eight hours. She
had only a weeks experience. The
average pickers harvest about 200
pounds day.
Walla Walla - The crop-control
program of the prune growers of this
region has greatly increased their in
comes. Outgoing carloads were SO
we'll distributed that few cars went
on the auctions and cash buyers paid
as much as $50 ton. The Yakima
district intends to follow the example
set here, it was said.
Wilbur - Wheat shipping from
here and other points in the Big
Bend is at it's peak. There is large
demand for the grain. Approximate
ly $4,000 bushels were shipped last
week. Mail is frequently late be-
cause the passenger trains are util-
lied in hauling freight during this
live season of wheat, fruit and live
stock shipping.
Davenport-The Davenport Times
Tribune was given real scoop" just
before going to press with it's weekly
edition last week, when light Sc
dan which Chauncey Rambo, service
station employee, left parked on a
hill north of the newspaper office,
started downhill and crashed into the
east wall of the building, narrowly
missing a large window. The car
was badly damaged, but not the
building.
Grand Coulee-Seyen Pacific coast
companies bid on the job of supplying
the Grand Coulee dam with the total
of 4,220,000 barrels Of cement when
bids were opened at Denver last
Tuesday. The total order, which is
less than half of the 100000 bar
rels needed to complete the project,
is the largest single order ever to be
made in the United States. When the
contract is awarded, cement will be
rolled. into the dam area at the rate
of 40 carloads per day.
Kennewick- of the Ken
newick and Pasco regions are exper-
imenting with the growing of pepper
mint in plots ranging from half
acre to eight acres in size. The crop
is nearly ready to harvest and yield
of from, rs to SO pounds per acre OF
distilled oil is expected. The oil is
Sdlu W SSll Iol PfV pCA 5oiioA' Oii
this basis, the crop would yield from
$125 to $3.50 per acre. One farmer
reports receiving, in 1884, 5000 for
oil produced on half an acre.
Yakima-Yakima chamber of COM
merce has a letter from German
fruit importer seeking to exchange
German manufactured goods for va
kima fruit Germany needs your
apples and is willing to buy at good
price," the letter states. 1t was sent
to the United States chamber of COM
merce at New York and forwarded
here. 1t proposed trading nail-mak-
ing machinery, railway supplies,
pruning and fruit packing equipment,
paper products of all kinds.
Vancouver AS the fall season
approaches buckle berries in the
Mount Adams section continue . to
ripen in larger quantities and prices
+. o. b. the berry fields took a cor
responding drop. Up to Wednesday
night about 5285 gallons of the lus-
cious pie fruit had been checked out
of the fields at the Peterson Prairie
guard station. Nearly 1000 individ
uals have visited the fields so far
this season and slightly more than
one third Of that number were still
in camp when the last check was
made.