The Globe-republican., 1894-05-18
TnE INDIY1DUAL
PUMPING PLANT.

Ed lxPRzNT: Responding to your 10
opess for an article on the Sbove subject,
1sabm:t the following:
There have been two epoch-makipg
occurrences in the history OF Garden
CITY. each almost unnotieed when taking
place. ye, es,.i, iraught with results of
ia,sm-use importance to the western half
uf the State The first was the contract
SQUIRE Worrell made in 1879 with the
uwncrs fthe partly made mill race
f,iree enlarged into the Garden City irri-
Eatiag can;ti-fOr water to irrigate his
crops. When his neigh5ors and chance
visitors saw what could be produced by
tie aid u artificial watering. a "boom''
wss inaugurI.ed which eventually filled
the coaDtty with people. 1t is tue that,
the incoming tide under way, people
su"n began TO disregard tie agency which
n been Instrumental in bringing them
! her end rushed far beyond irrigabie
iimits-to tie sorrow Of not few. But,
that tide Of immigration left improve
Inenss and the results of experience
wh ca have made it impossible for the
country to relapse into its former desc
late condition.
TIE SECOND BLESSING.
The second occurrence referred to was
tie Installation Of individual! irrigation
pumping plants by w. r. Grace, John
Simon, E. j. johnson and OtAesA The
..boom" which followed the Grst demon
stratinDs Of the vaiue of irrigation fifteeH
years ago, bound thousands Of people to
Southwest Kansas by cords Of self inte,-
est. The Inauguration by pumping has,
believe, furnished the greatest aid yet
developed toward rendering settlement
permanent and making available for
human Use the many genuine advantages
which this region possesses; for, that it
does possess many and great advantages,
only the most prejudiced and superficial
dare dispute and none can justly deny.
1t avails little for available purposes
that Southwest Kansas possesses soil Of
extraordinary fertility and inexhaustibse
depth; that its winters are SO mild that
farmers can engage in more or less of
aeld work every month in the year; that
ads impassable because of mud are
nknown; that putting new ground into
cultivation is done almost >adily and
cheaply as the eastern fa .,lews an
old field, there being nett .v-- -!Mmp nor
stone nor bog in the way, that 1t is the
most heafthful region in the world; that
there is almost enough rainfall for sue
cessful agriculture according to eastern
methods-all these advantages count for
little to the average newcomer unless
people can manage to overcome the dis
advantage Of the occasional lack of rain
fall at critical times.
THE MISSING LIMA
There are two classes of means by
which this lack may he made good. One
is growing crops suited to the country,
instead Of constantly trying to produce
such rs thrive only in humid region.
The other means is irrigation. If The
facilities for irrigation were ample and
cheap, nothing would be lacking to in
sure the development OF most magnifi
cent civilization upon the Great Plains,
because Il has been thoroughly demon
STATED that We can, with plenty Of water,
grow any crop which may be grown
upon this fruitful zone, the world around;
and with great product3veness added to
an averags'ofs $500 per acre from early
caShaga, $HDipeFeaere.from onAzns and
$100 Per acre from sweet potahoes His
reservoir w1s ssscAsd WaaA carp weighr
ing 4 tea3E pouads, IN June, 1891,
andSn September, 1Sas, he took out
seven fish weighing from SO to 61x
pounds each.
TEE FIGURES GIVEN.
Lee l.. Doty has sn s-inch pump run
BY twelve-foot windmill, estimated ca
w 6os1OASc tCA AuAUUS0.
voir is IS by 100 fee. in area and four
feet deep. It is stocked with carp. His
paopand mill cost $i9o, ,sand his reservoir
80. The plsnt has been ueed but the
oaasaasOa. Whist the results are il best
sbs~a By his statement to the recent
Honey County Farmer Institute, as
follows:
IL acres alfalfa: 1st crop. ........ $50 90
90d crop, tAfesh-
ed aNaaiA. 50 90
Seed 19o bu0t4 40 90
Swset potatoes, Q acres, 100 bu.
060c no 90
Csboage, acre, $500 No, q S1<c ss7 50
Irish potatoes, poor crop, about
so obu........................5 bu. 500
Tomatoes. d acre, 80 bu. 5000. soeO
Wstermelous, acre, 6o0-0 aver
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