How some John Deere combines got to Stone Machinery sales at 1st and Poplar in April 1957. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.

Stone Machinery employees

Stone Machinery sales audience



96 train cars loaded with 288 John Deere combines arrived in Pendeton for regional distribution

Twenty cars with 60 combines splits off heading to UP siding in Walla Walla

Charles Vollmer family of Walla Walla met train in Pendleton. Vollmers bought five from this shipment.

Stone Machinery Company (Successor to Braden Tractor Company), 1956. File photos courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.