Announced in the Whitman County Gazette last week---McGregor company has leased a large chunk of the Port of Wilma to build a new fertilizer plant for both dry and liquid fertilizers. Dry plant will include a blending system to blend different types of dry fertilizer. Plans call for "several" railroad spurs to be built. Fertilizer traffic at the Port of Central Ferry increased this past year with cars often stored loaded in East Lewiston. Also, nearly all J.B Hunt traffic from Lewiston is trucked to Spokane to the intermodal ramp, and a good deal of the Swift traffic is now too. Some days there is a constant parade of J. B. Hunt and Swift trucks shuttling between Lewiston and the Spokane ramp via US 195. Also being trucked to the Spokane ramp is all the trash from the Whitman County Landfill just outside of Pullman. (Sources of the Lewiston traffic are the paper mill and a couple of ammunition plants and some others.)