Talent Irrigation District v. Employment Division

In this ease the majority found

“* * * that between 90 and 95 percent of all of the water the Talent district delivers is for farm purposes.”

Two of the accounts served by petitioner are the cities of Ashland and Talent. The record does not show that water supplied to either of these cities was to be used for “farming purposes.”

Of petitioner’s 3,300 accounts, 700 serve tracts of one acre. At the hearing, an appraiser for the Jackson County Assessor’s Office testified that only a few parcels of less than five acres in size are considered as used for farming so as to qualify for the special…