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Show INFORMATION WANTED RESPECTING IRRIGATION. <br><br> We commend the following letter to the serious consideration of parties who may be interested. <br><br> EDITOR LEADER - As you very kindly noticed, in your last week's paper, my endeavors in producing a machine which might be useful in places adjacent to rivers where no dam could be made to raise water sufficiently high for irrigation, I beg to ask for your assistance in pursuit of information which I think ought to be generally understood and of which I in particular feel the need. I am often asked "how many acres will your machine raise water for, under given conditions?" I ask, how much water do you require per acre in gallons or cubic feet per minute or per hour and no one can tell me. And it would be conferring a favor if practical men who build and control irrigating works would take the interest to know and communicate the amount of water which is usually sufficient per acre during a given time. The United States signal service tells us how much rain falls in the different states and territories during the months in which we have to irrigate, and we can easily reduce this to gallons, pounds, etc. Does anyone know whether the amount which falls in rainy states, if produced in an irrigating ditch (aside from distance and necessary waste) is sufficient? Or if not how much more than this is required to make our average land fruitful? Will not the rights of irrigators in general rest upon this most important information when known to general acceptance? I would also very respectfully solicit correspondence from persons owning lands adjacent to Bear River or other large streams not more than fifteen feet perpendicular above high water mark. Not but what water may be raised forty feet upon the same principles as ten feet, but the quantity will be less unless the power is proportionately greater; and great power cannot be expected without great expense. Very respectfully yours, Joe Smith, Paradise, Cache Co.(County), Oct.(October) 8, 1880 |