Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-01

head, 1850 cubic feet per minute
rer square inch Of ofihce.
Ry Ienqlhening the oriflce horizontally
the flow / creased ia quantity yer
suuare inch Of oflnce, owing TO the
inorease OF area r. alive 10 the Increase
az perimeiof; 10 that nj 10 Inches IN
Width. 5 inch head, fl1w 1855; o inch
mead, / $50; inch head, 100 cubic
feet Der square inch Of orince.
For The purpose of irrigation, the
irrigsting duty Of water lakes iis base
on Computation from the How per
ssoond or minute; but ~ this 10 not
constant quautity iof different l0csll-
tee, owing TO variation IN value Ia the
mlnet's inch, the acte duty will be an
uncertainty until some general law
nxinga Uniform STANDARD Oi measure
or detail, 90 TO head and area u
constitute unit Of measure, j. male
TO extend over the different states anu
territories requiring q system Of ifrlga'
tion.
Assn lrrlgAtien term the "duiy Of
wat,rD means the area OF land upOu
which a donnite volume of water,
applied during a given PERIOD VIII
successfully fsiso ofops.
In Utah, whore Irrigation laws have
largely covered the dotails Uf water
rights, the "uniW u water measure.
ment ia designated ~ Que cublc foot Of
water Der second, called the "sacond
FOOT IL the standard VI uxprcssiou Tor
water service Tor Irrigation, aud IL
equal 10 SO, 400 cutie feet puf day
The "acre foot" Il the equivalent OF
one acre covered one foot deep, " a.
$50 cubic feet, 10 which 10 nudcd tue
time requirement.
Ia Utah the "fCcond foot" Il equal
g. two "acre iceD per day-'0D acre
feet" per month; 100 California iuch,s
equal I acre fcot per LAY; ami 100
Colorado inches oquol Is acre irct
Per day.
The "second ioopp u becoming pop
ulAr through ut the Western states aud
territories, from H. donuitcneIe Of
meaning and underwriting, Z. u win
which there l. little chanoe Tor tech
nicsl quibble.
The measurement Of water for
power In the eastern portion u the
United States i the "inCh," under a
stated head. The "lnchD or "inches,"
meaning the number Of square Inches
opening in a gate, or Oflnce, leading 10
NNAtA NhANA AhANA haAAN 'ANNa'NN
head.
The practice varies largely In differ
ent states. Ia New England, the
water power companies have specific
measures OF galo opening, from Que
foot head upward, aud also rate by the
theoretical horse power for any form Of
fow.
Where no specific heal IL named, n
Z fset head from the contsr Of the gate
Ofince 70 the surface oil the water Ia
the Hume has become legslizod Ia some
Of the states by statute or court de-
ciiion; the height OF head above or
below the statutory feet being rcck-
onud by IT. relation 10 the uuit, la
powor-produclng effect.
This IL made the basls In water
power leases IN Misc0nsil from the
time OF the earliest leases Ia that
stats.
Ia some cases the actual heads are
named. The valuation u variation IN
tho head below and above four feet,
when named a. a unit, has been a
cause OF legal contention In several
states, and In Wisconsin u has boon
fairly defined that the power derived
from unit Ofltice varies lropUftlOn-
htely with the variation Of the head,
and that the area for given power
varies inversoly 40 the square roots OF
the heads lees the proportion Of In
creased heal anu the reverse for dc
creased head.