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Show lNTFRFSTING ROUND IP VISITOR FROM WEST-SIDK An interesting west-side visitor at the Round up this week is Mt. O. D. "ayne, from Yale, or Prout, as the poet office has been nnmed. Mr. Payne is one of the prosperous ranchers in the newly-settled portion of this county, and has one of the best equipped and stocked ranches in that locality. His homestead, which comprises 1,000 acres, ia provided with a modern five-room house, with full modern plumbing, there being a 2,000 gallon water tank elevated 25 feet above ground, which is kept full by a good well and pumping outfit, which produces 180 gals, per minute, the surplus being stored in an 80,-000 80,-000 gallon reservoir. The present supply of water is sufficient to irrigate HO acres, and it is Mr. Payne's intention in-tention next fall to install a thousand thous-and gallon per minute elevator equipment. equip-ment. There are BOO shade trees on the ranch, tractor outfits 160 acres ate seeded to rye, and alfalfa has been successfully started on six acres, as an experiment. Mr. Payne is a successful large well 1 borer, and has operated extensively in California as well in parts of this state. For the pa.it several months he-has he-has been working in Millard countv . and has been instrumental in obtaining obtain-ing some of the astonishing Hows in that lection. He is also interested in an elevator system of raising water 1 from wells, and claims to be able to produce twice as much water with the same amount of power as can be done by any of the known systems of pumping. Prout is 2.'5 miles south-west from Lund, and Mr. Payne's home is a mile i and a half from the Yale station. |