Thunu, January 29. 1973
Werffoir tf Infcfo Citord $$M
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT OF
January 1, 1970
Bank Balance Jan. 1, 1969 $1,880.69
Jan. 8, Times saving Acct 1,000.00
Received from Coo
Cooperators Credit
Gross income from Cc
Donations for annual
Gross Income
Minus Cooperator credit
Bank deposits and on hand for 19G9 .... $
.$ 355.75
.30
..$ 356.03
.. 129.00
.. 132.00
..$ 617.05
.30
..$ 616.75
880.69
616.75
Disbursements during 19C9
Dues and membership (State & National) $ 147.50
Stewardship Material 24.00
Stamps 18.00
Advertisements and notices 181.95
Hall rental 15.00
Refreshments for annual and water meeting 28.65
Four members attended State Consv. Meet 150.00
Trophy awards 33.50
5th grade tour 25.00
5th grade tour bus driver 8.75
Treasurer Bond 10.00
Liability Bond 46.00
Sect, of State; State audit 5.00
Graffex Camera, attachments and supplies 419.16
$1,497.44
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How Do
Columbia
By KEN TURNER
We Obtain
River Water
It has been 6 years since Cal
ifornia threatened to divert the
The Soil Conservation Service
has nearly completed detailed
soil mapping on 150,000 acres In
Columbia. This had the positive " .
i ,'. Uation development group U
getting fea-sibility cost figures
to see how we compare with
Total Expenses $1,112.51
Paid out by checks $1,112.51
Bank balance and on hand Jan. 1, 1970 $ 384.93
On time savings account $1,000.00
value of equipment $ 957.24
Total cash and equipment Jan. 1, 1970 $2,342.17
Accounts receivable $ 115.50
Less account credits 1.00
$ 114.50
Will have earned on Time Savings 50.69
Equipment Rentals and Sales
Gopher Getter 35 per acre, Minimum $5.00 rental
Grass Drill 50 per acre, Minimum $5.00 rental
Land leveling stakes ..1.00 per acre, Minimum $2.00 sale
Survey stakes 5.00 per bundle Minimum $2.00 rental
$ 5.00
$ 57.50
$176.10
$129.70
AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER going on potato patch
at Nelson-Tucker farm. Columbia river watet
could make possible mora crop scenes In Mor
row county such as this.
Imgafioe.
Potential
Giret
Foir fitoinrow County km
effect of arousing our interest
in Irrigation.
Financing high lift and long othef joctJJ
mental challenge. The three
leading possibilities for supple
menting Irrigation pumping and
delivery costs are
1) Coolant Water There is a
real prospect of getting a nu
clear generator siting in Morrow
County. In this event the Port
of Morrow can design an irrl
gat ion grid to use coolant wa
tcr.
2) Bureau of Reclamation
Reclamation projects are desir
able in many ways and the
prime reason Is long term fed
eral financing. There are two
Now that the Blue ML RC&D
has been designated and fund
ed the area should get top pri
orities for resource development.
USDA, the Secretary of Agri
culture, and the Nixon admlnis-
tration has an official commit
tal to help rural areas grow and
reverse the trend of increasing
city congestion. This is the key
that can assure our area get
ting nuclear generator along
with an industry-agriculture
combination.
But many more people will
drawbacks however, one being v "
the slowness getting government
getting government
sanctioning and the 160 aere
limitation make them imprac
tical
3) State Revenue Bonds State
supplemental irrigation funding
can give necessary long term,
lower cost financing. Rep. Irvin
Mann spearheaded a bill at Ore
gon legislature that nearly pass
ed last session.
Private Privately financed
Total Received $368.30
Noble blade, Packer, Terracer not used during year.
Respectfully,
EDMOND GONTY, Treasurer
Port of Morrow Nuclear
Plant Siting Makes Progress
By RUPERT KENNEDY
Port of Morrow Coordinator
The Port of Morrow nuclear
power plant siting and coolant
water irrigation to 80,000 Mor
row County acres is moving In
the right direction.
On January 15, 1970 a tour
of the project was conducted
with Mr. Russ Richmond, ad
ministrator of Bonneville Power
Administration, and Mr. Larry
Wilkinson, administrator of the
Oregon Nuclear Development
Council. They were impressed
with the project, the quality and
terrain of the lands to be irri
gated and the plant site on the
river.
Mr. Wilkinson will direct his
task force to determine if the,
site meets the criteria of the
State.
It is the intention of the Port
commission to have the state
designate the Morrow multiple
site as one of Oregon's prime
nuclear sites.
If this is accomplished, the
Port commission may employ a
competent engineering firm to
lay out a water coolant irriga
tion grid and install the system
several years ahead of the pow
er plant installation with reve
nue bond financing.
It is hoped that the future
will call for a two cell plant
doubling the irrigated acreage.
Port of Morrow Commission
Rupert Kennedy, Coordinator
By HAROLD E. KERR
A wide variety of crops can
be grown in Morrow County
with irrigation. A partial list
would include wheat, potatoes,
dry beans, sugar beets, grass
seed, seed peas, mint, pasture,
alfalfa, legume seeds, grapes
and others. Each of these crops
have distinct advantages and
disadvantages. The largest sing
le determiner of what kinds of
crops we will grow under irri
gation is what crops we can
market.
Marketing channels can be
developed: often one or two
years is needed to test the mar
ket, to determine quality levels
and achieve production levels
high enough to attract process
or, packers or other users of an
agricultural product.
A brief description of various
commodities and expected pro
duction levels from this area
follows: These yields are based
on yields received in Eastern
Washington and results from
demonstration plots on Shutler
Flat in Gilliam County conduct
ed by Tom Zinn, Gilliam Coun
ty Extension agent.
Alfalfa is well adapted to this
area. Yield potentials are as
high as 10 ton per acre. Aver
age yields in Washington are
around 5 ton. Alfalfa is a soil
building crop, it works well in
a rotation with row crops.
Another advantage of alfalfa
is the high demand for alfalfa
in this area. Livestock numbers
will increase, as well as more
livestock feeding which will in
crease the demand for forage
crops such as alfalfa.
Potatoes are an excellent crop
for new irrigated areas. They
are especially well adapted to
lands receiving irrigation for the
time. They are a high return
crop with rather high risks In
volved in producing a market
able crop. Yield potentials are
as high as 35 ton per acre. Six
teen to 20 ton of No. 1 potatoes
is an excellent crop. Potatoes re
quire a large amount of water
over a relatively long period
of time. They are especially at
tractive because of the high re
turn per acre which will help
to cover the high investment
costs needed to set up irrigation
systems. The average yield of
marketable potatoes for the
Basin area in Washington over a
four-year period 1965 to 1968
was 19.66 tons,, with an average
return per acre of $466.48.
Dry Beans are a crop well
adapted to this area. They fit
well into a rotation and require
a relatively small investment in
new equipment for the average
dryland wheat grower. Yields of
2,000 to 2,500 lb. sohuld be ob
tained in this area providing an
estimated gross income of
$140.00 to $175.00 per acre. Soil
born diseases plague this crop
and keep it from becoming a
permanent crop in established
irrigated areas.
Suaar Beets have a nlace if a 1 ProJocts are limited to the prime
sugar Beets nave a piace u a , llf. ntka.rlv .- rph.
market channel is available.
Yields of nearly 30 tons per acre
were recorded at Shutler Flat,
using 31 inches of water.
Peppermint has a place in the
future of this area. The present
peppermint producing area ap
parently has exceeded produc
tion requirements for this crop.
lields of 60 to 80 lb. of mint
oil per acre would seem possl
ble in this area. Peppermint is
another crop which, after a cer
tain number of years, tradition
ally looks to new areas for
"clean" ground, free from soil
disease organisms.
Seed Peas appear to be well
adapted to this area. Yields ap
parently are comparable with
other areas. If marketing chan
nels are available, this crop has
real possibilities here, also.
Grass Seed as well as other
seed crop, are another good pos
sibility. The limiting factor for
these crops are marekting chan
nels open to new producers. Fu
ture possibilities for these types
of crops are excellent.
Wheat certainly has a place
in irrigated agriculture. It is an
excellent crop in rotation with
other irrigated crops. Yields of
Soil Surveys
And Resource
Development
(Continued from page 4)
near-river
Decome unieasmie wnen area tute an Important contribution
wiae development is considered, to the RC&D concept.
Only recently has an irriga
tion development committee fi
nally been formed. Such a group
is essential for various agencies
to deal with if an area wide
project is going to happen. The
Bureau of Reclamation contact
ed this committee as soon as
they heard of its existence. The
Bureau has been doing land
classification and topographical
work for the past two years here.
This began due to the Joint ef
fort of our County Court and
Congressman Al Ullman.
RC&D
elude:
Project objectives in-
over 100 bushels a're' commonly I
obtained. However, at today's!
depressed prices, irrigated wheat
does not appear to be an at
tractive alternative, except on a I
rotational basis.
Pasture also may provide
many possibilities as an alterna
tive irrigated crop. Studies in
other areas indicate pasture will
return as high a dollar income
per acre as many other Irrigated
crops. If livestock is a part of
the iarmlng operation, Irrigated
pasture offers some real possi
bilities.
Forestry Tour at Bull Prairie.
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A c 1 Czi
(a) Development of 13 water
shed areas for full use
and management of wa
ter resources.
(b) Coordination of activities
with other U. S. Depart
ments. (c) Further development and
management of ground
water.
(d) Improved drainage in ir
rigated areas.
(e) Recreation development.
(f) Cropland conversion for
about 100,000 acres.
(g) Improved cropping sys
tems on 900,000 acres of
dryland farming.
(h) Special attention to wheat
lands involving crop his
tory and soil depleting
base protection,
(1) Additional soil surveys.
(J) Increased technical help to
plan and install needed
land treatment measures
on cropland, woodland
and range areas.
(k) An overall long range pro
gram for maximum pro
tection on grasslands and
woodlands.
RC&D Project benefits expect
ed are:
in useable water
THIS PICTURE thowf Bob Jepeen. rancher, talking to one of the classes
about outdoor manners. (Photo by SCS).
Lake Penland To Be Constructed This Year
By HARRY ODONNEU. Jr.
Lake Penland was originally
conceived by O. W. Cutsforth
who bought a tract of land there
in the Blue Mountains. A group
incorporated in March, 1969. Of
ficers of the corporation are
Harry O'DonnelL Jr, president
and board of directors: Cornett
Green, Howard Bryant, Joe
Green, Edwin Dick.
The Lake Penland Corporation
is a non-profit corporation.
Much work has gone into the
formation of the corporation. Lots
have been sold to a group who
will pay for construction of the
dam that will form a lake ofj
about 60 acres. Height of dam
will be about 30 feet Bids are
to be let for construction of the
dam and other improvements
this spring.
Much cooperation has been
seen with help coming from the
U. S. Forest Service, the Soil Con
servation Districts, the Morrow
County Court and the State Wa
ter Resources Authority.
HEPPNER SWCD is 2nd place winner in 1968 Goodyear contest for all Ore
gon Soil and Water Conservation Districts. Shown here Is Heppner super
visor Dick McElligott receiving award from Art Weaver of Goodyear.
(Photo by SCS).
Grass Seeding Is Essential
By DICK McELLIGOTT
We have had another year in
which we have been reminded
several times that there are
many many acres of Morrow
County cropland that cannot
take moisture as it is sometimes
provided. We have had both
summertime cloudbursts and
winter rains running down our
gullies and streams. There
doesn't appear to be any way
that we can prevent these
storms from oecuring or any way
that we can know when they
will come. Our best course of
action is to prepare our land so
that we can minimize the dam
age done by these storms. There
is probably no area in the
Northwest in which as much
work has been done to combat
water erosion as has been done
in the Hepnner Soil and Water
Conservation District, but it on
ly takes a winter like this to
show that we have only made
a beginning on the work that
needs to be done. Most of the
shallow and steeper soils in the
southern part of the county are
now at or near saturation and
light to moderate rains cause
runoff erosion. We can't very
well add more soil to hold the
water. In fact, we know that we
have much less water holding
capacity than we once had due
to loss of topsoiL What we can
do is cover the areas most sus
ceptible to erosion with grass.
We can use our diverted acres
to lay out ground with severe
erosion problems, to Install
grass waterways, to build diver
sion and filter strips without
fear of losing our wheat base
on these acres. We can also cut
our annual operating costs un
der the cost of farming all our
ground and destroying a grow
ing crop. The time to make the
plans is now. The Soil Conser
vation Servlvce is prepared to
do any engineering needed.
The County Agent can recom
mend the best grass or grass
combination and can advise you
on what ACP cost sharing pay
ments you can claim. This
should be a good spring to plant
grass with our good soil mois
ture conditions. Remember to
apply for the ACP cost sharing
before the work begins. i
(a) Increase
supply.
(b) Reduction of land use
problems.
(c) Improved drainage.
(d) Improved, efficient use of
availbale water supply.
(e) Recreation developments
for income on private
lands, coordinated with
recreation facilities on
public land.
(I) Progress toward solution
of big game management
In the area.
(g) Improved economic con
ditions in the areas.
While RC&D projects Involve
primarily U. S. Department of
Agriculture Agencies, other ag
encies and organizations who
can contribute to the overall
conservation and development
effort will be invited to partici
pate. For example, active sup
port and a high priority estab
lished by the RC&D sponsors
could possibly speed up the
Corps of Engineer Construction
of the authorized Willow Creek
Project. The Bureau of Reclama
tion study of the proposed South
Side Project will be a valuable
contribution to overall project
evaluation.
The potential of this Colum.
bia-Blue Mountain RC&D Pro
ject Is limited only by the Imag
ination. The human and natural
resources are certainly present
This RC&D Project is only the
catalyst, which If properly used,
can result in beneficial accomp
lishments which will be a cred
it to each and every person who
has been Involved. We trust this
will be everyone in the area.