Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-06

gins will require 500 pounds Of good
coal. or lite equivalent Ia wood usually
good wood will go one cord TO one ton
Of coal), which, with coal at $40 per ton.
and engineer or iiremsn's wages az 81 80
per day, and allowing so cents for oil.
etc, per day, gives total cost Of 81 so
for placing one-half million gallons of
water upon the ground, or an actual cost
Of less than one cent per 1000 gallons.
In the second case Of raising water
so feet with pump Of the same capac-
ity Of one half million GALLONS per day
Of 10 hours, IL will require an engine Of |
IS horse power. To run this will re. |
quiro 1000 pounds Of good coal, which |
at $40 per ton aud the cost Of engineer
and oil, etc., per day, would give thu J.
actual cost Of putting this one. half mil.
lion gallons upon the land seven dollars,
or less than one and one half cents psST
1000 gallons This amount Of ],-
will cover 20 acres OF orchasS 80 ,heh
deep in a days run Of i"l"u,s, WIN
cost at 20 feet raise of q Ssns pe' ~, aJ,e,
ar when IL il reonire1.o place ~ Inches
- 49,. ~ - ~ Ind in a season at an
oa,"ai , on i Cost Of less than s. per
acre.
=, % SSf, the cost OF pumping 20 inches
- Gater will be less than 81. so per
acre.
May not the future show that the sys-
tenn OF lifting water for irrigating pur.
poses" will give relief In great measure
% the perplexing legal questions which
row and forever mnst harass the horti.
'nitnristy May not the owner OF land
become the possessor Of his own water
IMPLY, and at MS economical rates ms are
low prevailing In some irrigation
ilstricts' IL may appear to some
Numerical. hut l believe and predict
hat this system will be more generally
adopted; and for myself, | prefer to de.
pend upon no man or corporation for
'he water supply / require. | prefer to
ut under my own vine aud fig tree, and
'ysr my own irrieating snfpiy.
- ) +. CHArIs.
San jose, May 10, 1884.
The above embodies views which we
lave held for years. We have repeat
IDLY called the attention of our readers
% the ease with which water for
mall orchard can be raised by M
ordinary windmill. Our ideal of a
model farm In Los Angeles county is
me where the dwelling house ia sur.
by from ten to twenty acres Of
fruit trees and vines. In our drives
through the county we have frequently
seen the farm house standing bare and
almost In the midst Of vast plain Of
wheat or barley, while the surplus wa.
ter raised by the wind mill was running
to waste. In macy cases the water
thus wasted was ample for the irriga.
ton Of an orchard or vineyard of twenty
acres. The figures given above by Dr.
Chaplin are for the lifting of water by
steam power. with 'oai as fuel. In his
estimate the coal il the only item
Of expense which amounts to any
thing Oar farmers run their
threshing machines by engines using
straW rs fuel THIS costs nothing
and can be as readily used for the pump
ing as for the thresting engine With
straw for fuel, the cost of lifting water
for irrigation purposes is reduced to
minimum. The farmers sou can
in week learn how to run a
portable engine, aud thus the expense is
reduced to but little more than the cost
of the engine and pump. For orchards
and vineyards of several hundred acres
this will be the most economical plan.
But for a small on hard of say 20 acres,
Immediately surrounding the farm house,
the ordinary windmill, such as is used
for raising the water for the stock on
the farm, is amply sufficient. BY fol-
lowing DIR. Chapin's advice aud iirigai-
Ing In the winter time the orchard can
be enlarged to twice the size given above.
1t can be attended to at times when
nothing else ON the farm requires the
owners attention. Thus any farmer
can, at but little expense and scarcely
any extra work, surround his dwelling
with trees or vines, which in a very few
years will yield him handsome income.