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Show DO PUMPING WATER AND i ARTESIAN WELLS. Many of the farmers in Boxelder county are employing pumps in irrigating ir-rigating their land and excellent results re-sults are being obtained. Southwest of Brigham City, J. S. Salmon, who is an Ogden visitor, has eighty-five acres, the water for which is lifted fifteen feet by an eight-horse power1 gasoline engine, at a cost of 80 cents an acre each season. Mr Salmon says it is cheaper to pump than to; pay' the cost of upkeep of an irrigation canal. He is planning plan-ning substituting electric power for his gasoline engine, and, though he . does not aim to red,uce tho cost, ho i expects to get more convenient and - dependable service, as a gas engine i is not as reliable as electric current : supplied by one of the big electric i companies. L In California there are whole dls-s dls-s trictB where the orchardists and otfior tillers of the soil depend entirely on well pumping to supply them with Irrigation water, and a greater effort in that direction should be made by tho farmers of the poorly Irrigated parts of Utah. Furthermore, there should be more drilling for artesian wells. No one can foretell the permanency of the city artesian wells in Ogden Valley, but, if they prove to bo inexhaustible, farmers will bo encouraged to drive wells at other points In that artesian belt, or still lower down in tho direction di-rection of the east entranco to Ogden canyon. Then, If It bo shown, that the flow Is not from the Ogden river drainage, tho prior rights to tho waters wa-ters of which are hold by tho earlier appropriators, quite a source of new water may be developed. The farmers farm-ers would have the right to allow their wells to discharge Into Ogden river and divert an equivalent lower down where canals are now taken out, figuring, of course, a certain deduction de-duction for seepage and evaporation, as the Davis & Weber Counties Canal water consumers do In diverting from tho Weber river the flow from the reservoir in East Canyon. no |