Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-07-29
BY PUMPING.
Wonders in Irrigation at the
Hartt Ranch.
FIGURES OF ACTUAL WORK,
Wonders Of a Cord of Wood
Pumping Better Than
Ditch Company.
FIGURES OF ACTUAL WORK,

OISOH OOAH pan
Tucson, July II, 1893.
Editor CITIZEN:
In answer 10 yours iuquiring as to the
cost CT producing water for irrigation
by pumping, / would say thai in actual
everyday service, as demonstrated by
numerous practical experiments at my
place, a cord of sound, well-seasoned
mesquit wood, weighing about 400
pounds, will operate my plant for ten
hours, producing 1000 gallons OF water
per minute at an elevation OF sixty feet,
or a total of 100000 gallons raised
sixty feet high in ten hours. This.
assuming that gallon of water weighs
eight and thirty-three hundrsdth pounds
amounts to 6O0,OOO,O0O foot pounds of
utilized energy. And assuming that
seven and fifty-hundredth gallons
make cubic foot approximately aud
that an acre Of land contains IS, $50
square feet, the above amount of water
would food an entire acre OF land over
forty-four inches deep, or it would
food fifteen acres about tire inches
deep.
If, as some authorities claim, an
acre foot, or that quantity of water that
will cover an acre one foot deep, prop
erly applied, without loss, and in adj
ditioB TO our annual rainfall will ir
rigate an acre of land for year. There
Is practically no waste of water that is
pumped, as it is applied direct and only
as needed. Then a cord of mesquIt
wood, properly utilized, viii rrigste
three and three-quarter acres for
period of one year. This, however, will
depend greatly on the class of crops
and economy of the man using the
water.
A miners inch, under q four-inch
head, as adopted in California, amounts
to a continuous flow of about nine
gallons per minuts. By ths above
figures it will be seen that cord of
mesquit wood will maintain a con-
tinuous flow of one miners inch twenty
four hours in day for over niuety-two
dsps, besides raising it sixty feet high.
A waterrght throughout the fruit
districts of California usually consists
of one-tenth of miners inch per acre.
From this it develops that a cord of
mesquit wood will not only furnish the
water-right but the water as well, and
that from depth of sixty feet to irri-
gate ten acres OF land Tor q period of
ninety-tao days.
Such a cord OF wood costs me laid
down at the furnace door 81, making
the fuel to prOdu3e an acre foot of
water cost fiity-three and one -third
cents, and making tie fuel necessary to
produce quantity # water equal to a
Gal fornia water-right for one year cost
eighty cents, or about four and a half
cents for every time an acre is covered
one inch deep.
POWER OF A CORD OF WOOD.
Few people folly realize the enormous
energy stored in a cord of mesquit
wood and this suggests the fact that In
asmuch as one pound falling 6OOOOOOGO
feet will not develop sufficient energy
to reIse 600,OOO,OO0 pounds one foot. that
were this cord of wood weighing 1900
pounds suspended by a cable and used
as a weight II drive suitable mechanism.
it would not pump SIS much water in
running down shaft twenty-five
miles deep as it does by simply burning
it under boiler.
Ia regard 10 labor, one man does the
firing and gives the pump what little at
teution it needs. His wages at $500
per shift OF twelve hours amounts TO
$3.50 for she ten hours used in con-
Stunning tee cord Of wood and producing
the 100000 gallons of water which is
equal - sixty-sight ceLts for each acre
foot, S1O0 for quantity equal f.
California water right. or nearly five
and three-quar, cents for each acre
Hooded one inch deep.
The cost for oil and waste for ten
bours Is about twenty five cents. for
repair fund say twenty-five cent in
terest on outlay fifty cents for shift of
ten hours, making Sl.0G for incidentals.
equal to tweGty-seven cents for an acre
foot, forty cents for @ California water
right, or two and a quarter cents per
incn, which sums up in total as follows:
Whole cost of producing an acre foot
of water, Sl4S15. Whole cost Of pro-
ducirg an amOGnl equal to a water
riglt for che acre for one year. 1920, or
the whole cost TO food an acre one inch
deep about twelve and a half cents.
If this pump were run continuously for
one year at this rate. which is moderate
speed, il would furnish 1,051, 100000
gallons or 40, 10000 cubic fest OF water,
or sufficient to cover 32lS acres one foot
d ep.
But let us be liberal for we do not
intend to stint our crops. With plenty Of
water at hand, say taking all crops into
consideration one with another, we
use two acre feet of water per acre,
equal to one and half water rights and
whsn We allow two feet for the entire acre
it means that the act1al crop viii get a
great deal more, as 10 case OF trees and
vines they would not need nearly so
much, great deal of the ground not
being wet at ell.
AT this rate the plant would irrigats
literally 1909 acres. Now granting that
al average water right costs $500 per
acre as purchased from ditch company
and on tue 1909 acres we have fund
of S24, l35 with which to build a plant
which Is your water right
1t IS needless to say it can be put
in for great deal less.
BEATS DITCH COMPANY.
In the one case you have practically |
nothing to show for your S2i ,l35 and |