| Show PUMPS IN irrigation of late there has been a marked ad vanoe vance in the use of pumping plants an B an auxiliary in irrigating methods the mountain streams and riven have been largely appropriated BB an sou son rose roes of supply by the gravity system flowing or artesian wells veils have been adapted to tn the purpose of the needful liquid and even avon in utah pumping has baa been reported to in many localities to aid the cultivator in his efforts to a secure sufficient irrigating water until recently however this method of raising the water to a level where it could be easily distributed has not been very successful owing to the great eap exp expense e iise the later efforts therefore are III all the more encouraging from the fact that they are overcoming th this Is serious difficulty and the most gratifying success haa ban attended them both an the plates plains of kansas and nebraska ond end the valley and hillsides hill sides of the rocky mountain and sierra nevada ran ranges gies the progress pro grees with pumping plants in california is ia interesting here from the probable necessity cf an ex tension of their use in this section of the country the parris cala record states that in that of the golden state irrigation by pumping is becoming more contagious than the grip it has been demonstrated thoroughly and satisfactorily that an inexhaustible supply of water underlies that land and an unlimited flow can be secured with wells wella by means of the most moat modern irrigation pumps which can be operated at reasonable coet coat j with the increase in pumping plants there comes also a necessity of small reservoirs connected therewith and the california cultivator describes de what it as a 8 typical plant and reservoir which supplies water for a sixty sure aura lemon grove the reservoir is ia on the highest part 0 of the land to ia of oblong shape bol holding dinst galloup gallons and to is lined with asphalt and painted inside with a b heavy eavy cost coat of asphalt paint which renders it completely impervious to gophers and other burrowing animals it in ia up sap plied from a we 1 feet deep seven von inches in diameter in this the water rives rises to within feet from the top an ordinary deep wil well pump Is in used the cylinder being end and the pipe to is a four inoa this is operated by ao an power gasoline engine which pumps the water into the he reservoir which is some fifty or piety feet higher than the pumping station at the rate of 1500 gallons per hour the cost for gasoline in ia given as an 10 cents per haur of course the expense of pumping is in still for far above that now incurred here by irrigating cansle yet as more land comes in use for orchards and gardens garden and as higher methods of cultivation or are employed to secure larger yields yield 9 th the more costly methods will be resorted to benoe utah irrigators irrl gators in may sy note not is ard keep in touch with methods that are brought into opera aion inhere I where with a view toi to intro otro darlng them wherever render it necessary neo eary and profitable |
