White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-07-16

says Hector Mcdonald, extension an
imal husbandman, Washington State
college. Wounds and places fouled by
dung or urine are usually the center
of attack, while eve lambs are espec-
tally subject to the fly because their
wool is longer than that Of the older
sheep and usually prone to become
damp around the dock. The oily gum
my wool around the base Of Ram
bouillet rams horns also attracts the
am not prepared to say which group
is right or wrong, but there is COM
mon principle which runs through
our form OF Government from the
tiniest school district on up to the Ma
ton itself, and that is in the end the
will of the majority must prevail. I
can see how proponents of the bond
issue can visualize community up in
that section Of this County which will
surpass almost anything else in the
state OF Washington. With the sum of
something like $4,000 or $4,000, they
are acquiring properties that have cost
individuals and groups, take it from
The exhibits in this case. sums ranging
from three quarters of million to one
million dollars. Power possibilities
there are exceptional. Water rights to
The lands are valuable, though it is
4 fact that not single land owner in
acre of the ground from his water
right alone He will have to supple
ment it from some source. 1t seems it
is easy to supplement the water from
| the use of wells, but, as one witness
testified, no one wants part of his wa
ter from ditch and part from the
we'll He wants it all from one source
or the other source.
1.-THE excess power that this Irriga-
ton District can deevlop, according to
the evidence Of Mr.. Chase, would make
it quite feasible and practical to fur
nish electrical energy at a rate, it
seems, far less than it is now costing,
as some witness testified yesterday, the
electrical energy bill alone is some SIS
or SIG per acre per season, which al
most creates an excessive situation.
Nov, as to the legal questions
raised, Mr.. Hutchinson, on the question
of merger, the question of the rights
of the District is interesting and novel,
but I am not at all persuaded that
our Supreme Court would hold with
you in that regard. This is an unusual
! situation, novel situation. / don't
know of another irrigation district ex-
listing in the United States or any
where else, that has situation exact
ly as the one that is presented here,
but the primary object, am convinc-
the majority position in this matter,
is to save these valuable water rights,
in a certain way valuable, not even an
asset if you depended upon them
alone, because you could not irrigate
with that amount of water alone, yet
liability that no private company
would want to undertake, and doubt
less the only reason that the insol-
vent company, the Black Rock Power
& Irrigation Company, or whatever
the name was, did not go on with
their plans, was that they found this
CIRCUMFERENCE established by the Adam
son decree. Without the land having
that right, doubtless the District can
continue by pumping, but will be
largely at the mercy of the group or
individuals selling them electrical en-
ergy.
''Now, it has been indicated here by
some of the persons who oppose the
program of the directors of this Dis
trict, that it is a scheme or plan
whereby their valuable rights will ul-
timately be lost to them, to some pri-
vate power concern. The very fact
that these rights pass into the hands
of quasi-municipal corporation such
as an irrigation district, is the best
argument in the world that that stu
alton could not happen, because it
can only occur after the people of
that district as whole consent to it.
If those rights would pass into the
hands of private individuals, then in
all probability they would pass direct
for the purpose of those private in
dividuals personal property; so it
seems to me that the fear that the
minority seem to have concerning the
future welfare of this District is not
well founded. There is something that
I want to comment on before con-
clude, and that is the interest of the
Milwaukee Railroad Company, a great
transportation corporation announcing
itself ready and willing to advance
100000, if necessary. in order that
this program might be carried on. To
this Court that does not seem to in
dictate, even in the remotest, bad faith
on the part of the Railroad Company.
It might be said that they are actu-
ated somewhat by a selfish motive,
but that motive is tonnage and moth
ing else. One of the exhibits in evil
dence here indicates that this COM
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