Show HINIS ON HOISTING WATER editor deseret news your correspondent eo edwards edward of 0 diamond valley vailey washington county asks as I 1 haw in effect tha simple question as to the best way adf l to raise rah e water tor for irrigation from tj a supply one hundred feet deep 29 2 9 or distant in a perpendicular direction direct lop iop As aft I 1 person having some bume experience in the be matter I 1 beg to evy eay to him that abr irrigation in a general sense to raise water ater a perpendicular distance ds d stance tance bf one bu hundred adred feet Is i too ex pell pensive sive to 10 be 1 practicable but lor for special don con isiom where the Vio product duets a of a small email piece of daod aad are particularly valuable irias both practicable and profitable tu to raf water b by means of ft an ordinary lift pump driven by the only available inexpensive power ji namely amely air or widd power la in proportion to the quant quantity itly of water required the wind should ho however evor be of the improved patterns patter ns and may be imported or they can be made here by thoroughly acquainted acquaint eu with the pi joel iles K required quiren to be embodied in air mathide MaO hiDe of those already erected which are beginning to be numerous nume roun routs in the northern cart art of the territory it has bag been truthfully said eaid they are doing honest work una anu giving good satis action I 1 am sati bnell that where water can t toe obtained at ordinary depths BB as is ie usual bual in nearly all our valleys hundreds of dry farms will yet he bb opened to the great profit and advantage al of toe thil entire community with gArd gardens end orchards and domestic applied Up plied witti with water atar by y pir air powen lifting fuku continuously towers ant anty by the capacity of the beus ells what with canato reservoirs I 1 from welle and the intelligent reclamation of land on OD the dry farm principle it seems only a matter of time when all the me valleys valley preliminarily settled by the early pioneers in ah this great basin will be brought thoroughly into use ue in all their broad area except where rocks and concrete exclude the but otter hope to the prospector 1 speaking of arr air powers also aho brings t to 0 mind t the e various attempts attempt im at aerial navigation noticed in your bolum ns frum from time to time mae I 1 deem the arrangement ran gement of flying machine apparatus 8 wll wil boon be by intelligent me mechanical ml adi laeh the question la Is solved of the exertion of sufficient latent power within a given of weight bight aside the weight of apparatus ako abo the eMary by friction it will require at tat leat one third of a horse power to handle the weight of an ordinary man in the air and so BO on in proportion to whatever weight was required to be poised and elevated As AB far as ae T know there la is no power generating machine invented or known except bird birdson sufficient capacity proportionate to its weight to fill the requirement As AB to manpower man power doing it alone by pedals or otherwise that is to assume that jae be can exert a power of about foot pounds per minute u te which to the most asual c eual observer to simply absurd proofs of the above assertion aseer tion are easily forthcoming which are of universal acceptance respectfully jub JOB T SMITH PAROWAN iron county utah june 1898 |