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Show I I WILL MAKE POSSIBLE NEW HOMES. H H a OgdHnite, who has traveled extensively on the Pacific coast, ,was quoted in these columns two weeks ago as stating that the supplying of water for irrigation by pumping from deep wells lr is transforming parts of arid California from desert to garden spots. - Of late Utah, farmers on the west short of I'tah lake have been Hl pumping water to the bench lands and producing most profitable crops. The following news item appears in a Lhi papor: H: t "F- c- Cooley toot a twenty-horsepower gasoline engine and a V Byron Jackson centrifugal; pump to his ranch just south of Pelican ;' 1 Point where he will irrigate 300 acres with water pumped from Utah ake- B7 constructing a pipe line about 300 feet long he will ele- li j rate the water eighty-five feet and then with a gravity canal carry I tne water over practically the whole of his desert entry of 320 j acres. Mr. Cooley has erected a comfortable bungalow on the bench !L and is preparing to go extensively iuto the farming and hog raising I 1 business. j "J. W. Ball, who owns a sixty-acre tract two miles south of Saratoga, commenced his pump going this week. He has a small k gasoline 'engine and a centrifugal pump elevating wa,ter out of the lake through a six-inch pipe. "J. W. Gates, a Salt Lake hardware man, has ordered a pump and in a few days will have it irrigating his 160-acre ranch about . midway down the west side of the lake. f "Further north County Commissioner James H. Gardner has an up-to-date gasoline pumping plant with which he is irrigating twenty acres of apples and a tract of grain and alfalfa. He also has a windmill with which he elevates water into a big tank and irri- I V gates a five-acre peach orchard. Mr. Gardner has about 250 acres, all of which he intends to irrigate by means of a pumping svstem." ' The day is coining when thousands of acres of fertile but now arid, land in this state, on which flowing water from canals cannot can-not be placed, will be made productive by the tapping of a sub- terraneari water supply and the using of pumps to lift the water to the surface. , . ; , .- - 'IJheref are .sagebrush valleys where thesQil is rich in all the elements of fertility, where, if water were obtainable, a paradise could be created. Tests will, demonstrate that in many of these valleys welljs can be obtained whiqh. by pumping, can be made to water thousands of acres. When the transformation ..is brought about, the wonder will be that the experiment had not been tried long ago. . . ,$f, t l' A |