VOL. 6.
PALMER A Li-. SKA.
AUGUST.
1943.
IIO. 30.
FRANK CLARK SELLS COLONY FaRM
The first transcation of. its kind
took place Inst week when Frank
Clark sold the Colony Tract that he
purchaser from the A.R.R.^. in 1938
to Mr. Erickson, a newcomer in the
Valley, from Portland Oregcon, Mr.
’ Clark found the buyer and offered !
; to allow the A.R.R.C. to exercise
their option under the Reality Con
tract cl‘use mnkeing this provision
The A.R.R.C. did not choose to
pure} rse Mr. Clarks interest so the
Tra ct is now in the hands of Mr. &
Mrs. Erickson.
The improvements made by Mr.Clark
with the four yearly Reality paymen
tments, pa id by him,were purchased
by Mr. Erickson who will now hold
the Reality Contract. Mr. Clark
is free of all indebtness on the
Tract and Mr. Erickson will assume
the respensabillty.
Mr. & Mrs. Clerk have moved to
their homestead near Lazy Mountain
and will continue in the stock bus
1 ness, which they started about
three years ago, they purchased the
Morehouse homestead,and now have
320 acres of land, so the Colony
Tract was no longer of much value
to them,
/.lmer Peterson represented Clark
in the deal and Mr. Cuddy was over
looking after the interests of the
A.R.R.C. at the conclusion of the
deal Dr. Hansen stated that as far
as the Corp. is concerned that he
felt that it Mr. Clark had been a
good farmer and that no ill fueling
existed on account of the litigatioi
that occured two yerrs ago over this
same farm with the Corp.
For some unknown reason Mr. Clark
had been required to pay two more
Reality Payments that the rest of
• Contracts provided for, so his
;equity was larger on account of thii
’and while it worked considerable
hardship on the Clark’s at the time
it worked out all right in the long
run.
The Clark deal will refute the
belief, held by many Colinists in
the past,that it would be imposs!-;
iable to sell their equity under
the present Reality Contract, or to
get payment for their improvements
if they decided to leave or sell
their Interest. However it should b<
noted that Mr. Clark ^id have an
equity because he had made payments
on the reality.
\ COOP. NEWS.
A fair amount of vegetables arc
now being delivered to the produce
department, exceptionaly fine lar^e
heads of Cauliflower are comin6 in
and when you hear the price of this,
remember that seed costs Seventy
^Dollars n pound. Cabbage, lettuce and
carrots ore also boin6 rocieved.
. The army wants potatoes and will
start purchasing them rbcut Aug. 15
so those that have early spuds will
have a chance to get started early,
this will.enable the labor available,
to help ever a much longer p-'-roid,if
the producers, will take advantage of
the chance to get started.
The Co-op. Board passed n motion
to adhere to the Marketing Contrac*
and deduct the 2% required by the
Contract to provide for retirement
| cf debts incurred by the Marketing
Association for the building of the
processing plants necessary'to take
care of the business involved.. And
for now improvements, required.
Up to the present time it has been
believe^ by most of the Members of
the Ecar^ that it would work a hard
ships that would hinder production
on account of the small capital cf
the average farmer end that it would
he best to let the producer have all
that he could make until such time
as,production became large enough to
justify the collection of this small
severance. Now that prices are good
and a large production in sight, it
xis believed that we should start to
smaking provisions for the future an^*
setting aside funds to meet obllgat
ions that have been made.
The building crew on the root cellat
are building the walls a.s fast as
ithe-y can, but additional cement tile
setters are wanted as well as othe’”
help and any one interested should
got in touch with Frank Clark, if t.
want a job setting tile and. have had
expierence at it.
The rainfall rocicved this last
week was very welcome, as the bround
was rather dry and while there Ifias no
been any .damage on account of dry
weather so far this year, it wiXl be
^useful to have an occasional rain
■from now on during the rest of this
jmonth. Crops are- coming along fine
Lanr? look pretty good.