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Show IN RAISING WATER Many Subterranean Streams Close to Surface in the West. Well Adapted for Utilliatlon for Irrigation Irri-gation and Will Be Exploited Within Neat Few Years-Coat Years-Coat Is Low. There are a ihiuinnnd nnd one plaiia In the went where the under flow of the subterranean wnler la ao close to the surface that It might Jut as will be utilized for In Igat Inn and every one of these places will be e. plotted III this way within (he next thirty or forty years tlreater Irrigation Irriga-tion mil woik wonders In such places of the HI Ul belt The ipiestloll of pumping water for Irrigation la simple sim-ple cnnuith In these dnva of practical Improvements by the way of machinery machin-ery for lifting water nnd the acre cost la generally less than I'ncle Hani ex penils In fancy tunnel projects. The opportunities for gravity Irrigation are largely exhausted. There has been In the past and la yet too much prejudice ngaluat pumping. The oj-pooltliin oj-pooltliin la due more to Ignorance than anything else. The use of cheap machinery la alao responsible fur the general belief that the pumping of ntei for Irrigation la Impracticable and too costly. All over the arid region lire to be found abandoned pumping plants and when wo Inquire the cause we git one answer: "It cnsla too much to pump the water." The trouble la not with the pumping system but with the system of pumping. The cost should , not be more than two dollars the acre per annum hut there, are scores of Instances In which It costs from fit tn I4 and thla la a rather stiff tax for genernl cropa under poor methods of culture. Water wheels and current motors have been In use In China for more than S.nuo years and In all that time there baa lieen no ninrked Improvement In their cfll-elenry cfll-elenry although thnuaanda of typea I hnve biien constructed nnd tried. They are a crude and burdensome nienna tn get power nnd under the i moat favorable rondltlona give only I a fraction of the power of atenin. Taking all facta Into consideration wo may aay thnt the windmill la nn litgenloua cnntrlvnnce from nn Irrigation Irriga-tion standpoint tn wnate power and money as a genernl rule. However when the lift Is low, wind conditions favorable and a natural, Inexpensive reaervolr available a email tract of land may be watered, but In OH cases out of 100 It la a delualon and a wnate of money. The moat approved sva-tcm sva-tcm of modern contrivance for aniull quantities of water on n light lift la the gnaollne engine with centrifugal or piston pumpa nnd thousands of them are to-day employed all over the weat to help aa ninny poor act-tiers act-tiers make a living under conditions which would otherwise apell failure. There are all kinds of aplnah wheels working In currenta thnt do pretty good work night and dny hut they are able to lift water only a few feet nnd are not avnllahle any dlatnnce back from a good stream of water The lurblnn la allnnle enoiiirh but enn h. operated only under the pressure nf-forded nf-forded by a declivity and the annie la true alao of the hydraulic rain which however Is not much better than a Mi rlno bui k fur Irrigating any considerable con-siderable amount f ground In a practical prac-tical way. The artesian well with s good stuff flow la the finest kind of a proiHialtloti bul It cornea wholly within with-in the province of Die Creator and la always a condition auch aa man cannot can-not provide primarily. |