The Sherman County ■ Observer, Moro, Oregon,
Friday,
August
1,
1930
State Adjudicates John Day Legge and Hyde Coming for
Pendleton Meeting
River Water Rights
fro m a p rom inent fa r m e r
Read this Affidavit
For Your Own Protection
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I, J. M. Yocom, being duly sworn, tesify to the follow
ing facts in substance anti effect:
On the morning o fju ly 9, 1930, I observed the test of the
CATERPILLAR “ 3 0 ” side-hill tractor equipped with 15”
track shoes and cab owned by Arthur Smith of Grass Valley,
Oregon, which was conducted by. hitching a load to a dyna
mometer, which in turn was connected to the tractor to
measure the maximum draw-bar power, and the load was
increased until the tractor was stopped at which time the
following power readings were made, after taking an
average of three or more
tests for each .... result:
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W GEAR—6350 Lb. pull.
SECOND
—5135 Lb. pull.
HIGH
^-3900 Lb. pull.
On the afternoon of July 9th, 1930, I observed the
test of the ALLIS-CHALMERS MONARCH “ 3 5 ” stan
dard tractor equipped with 13” track shoes, . owned by
Alfred M. Bennett of Antelope, Oregon. The same dyna
mometer and methods were used in this test as above
described with the following results:
LOW GEAR—8425 Lb. pull.
SECOND
—5425 Lb. pull.
HIGH
—4200 Lb. pull.
On the low gear test of the “ 35 ” it was impos
sible’to get the maximum draw bar Jb. pull'due to the
fact that the tractor was not loaded to the stopping point.
And—as such tests were made to determine for my sat
isfaction the fact that the MONARCH *“ 35 ” has more
power than the CATTERPILLAR “ 30 ” and such difference
in power as determined by the Nebraska tests, I con
sequently placed my order for a MONARCH “ 35 ” for
immediate delivery.
That the tests made on the CATTERPILLAR “ 30 ”
tractor were conducted by and under the supervision of
Messrs. Reed, Frail, and Peterson of the Cascade Tractor
company; that the tests made on the MONARCH “ 3 5 ”
were in similar manner conducted by Messrs. Tatom and
Johnson of The Dalles Tractor Company, both' companies
being located in The Dalles, Oregon.
(Signed) J. M. YOCOM.
S. B. TATOM,
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Witness.
Subscribed and sworn to me this 12th day of July,
1930.
(SEAL)
W. N. JONES,
Notary Public.
My commission expires December 25, 1933.
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M o n a r c h ^ « / T r a c to r s
Following an investigation cover
ing a period of five years, Rhea Luper
state 'fcngineer,* last week issued an
order adjudicating the water rights
on the John Day river and all
its tributaries.
The order in
volves 15,COO claims and approxi
mately 50,500 acres of land-*-38,000
acres in Grar.t county; 7,800 acres
in Wheeler; 2,100 in Gjlliam; 1,700
in Umatilla; 270 in Wasco; 220 in
Morrow; 100 in Jefferson and 17 in
Sherman cofinty.
The order has set amounts of
water for each claimant, which is ten
tative with jurisdiction retained for
a period of three years. Priority
rights have been definitely set but
dissatisfied parties have right to ap
peal to their local district courts
within a period of $0 days. There
were 89 contests in which testimony
was taken; field work was done over
a period of two years and testimony
taken over a period of five months in
1929.
Prior to 1909 the method used in
filing upon a claim consisted only of
a notice tacked upon a tree or stake
that the landholder intended to run
water from the st^am . In some very
few instances, wherein the party
wished to be exacting, a similar record
was filed with the county clerk. With
such a haphazard method of filing
complicated situations arose. That
was the purpose of the hearings and
the decision announced. Now all
owners of parcels of land using
water may have a definite knowledge
and record of water rights thereunto
belonging.
Gordon Barnard has been appoint
ed, by the state engineer office, wat-
ermaster for the entire John Day
river watershed. It is the plan to
have Barnard handle the water mat
ters in the entire district but should
it be found too much of a job for
one man, an assistant may be station
ed in Condon for the summer months
only.
I Secretary of Agriculture Hyde,
who has been touring the west with
Chairman Legge of the farm board,
seeking to “sell” the producers the
policy of reducing acreage, returned
to the nations capital July 15. He
reported to a cabinet meeting held
that day his belief there is little that
can be done at this time to bolster
the wheat market..
Hyde said he considered it useless
for the farm board to buy 100,000,-*
000 bushels of wheat at this time,
as proposed by Senators Capper apt!
Allen of Kansas. “Its only effect
would be possibly to temporarily in
crease wheat prices 2 or 3 cents a
bushel, and that wouldn’t last,” he
said.
It is understood the secretary gave
a first-hand report on the depressing
situation in the grain belt occasioned
by the tobogganing of wheat prices
and warned President Hoover that,
unless there is a marked recovery
meanwhile, the administration is go
ing to be faced in the next congress
with a renewed demand for the
equalization fee or the debenture
plan, both .of which policies Hoover
has denounced as econontfcplly Un
sound. The di benture was killed out
of the present farm law and again out
of the tariff bill only at Hoover’s
' threats of veto.
i “A great many farmers with whom
I talked,” Hyde said, “believe the
equalization fee is the only salva
tion.”
M id s u m m e r
Wheat farmers of Oregon are to
have the opportunity on August 9 to
hear first hand the ideas of the feder
al farm board leaders on the present
and futiiro market outlook for wheat
the ifrorld over. On that date Sec
retary Arthur Hyde of the depart
ment of agriculture and Chairman
Alexander Legge of the farm board
will address a meeting of farmers,
bankers and college extension men
at Pendleton.
»The Pendleton meeting and one in
Spokane are the only two scheduled
in the Pacific northwest by the farm
leaders who are starting on a tour of
the far west in the interests of farm
marketing. Arrangements for the
Oregon meeting were made by the
federal extension' service through
Paul V. Maris, director of Extension
at Oregon State College.
Secretary Hyde and Chairman
Legge recently returned to Washing
ton after making a tour of several
Middle West and Southewestern
states explaining the wheat situation.
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