Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-12-29
HIGHLY SATISFACTORY.
D.talls Of tho Kansas Windmill.
Pump Experiments.
How tho Undornow Water IL Raised
aud Held In Reservoirs 10 DO
Used la Irrigation.

Tho experiments upon irrigation by
means OF wells aud pumping plants, at
Goodland, Kansas, says tho Denver
Aslgs, have demonstrated 10 the salts.
faction OF everybody that therein Lies
the future prosperity Of this section
upon n scale which has only been
dreamed Of up to this time. Ia all Of
this part OF tho state there has boon
much more ditch building than ever
before, as the advantages OF irrigation
have become manifest, but bitches
cannot bO built 10 reach all tho land,
and 70 they could the supply Of water
In the streams would DOT be- sufficient
For that reason attention has been
turned 10 the underground dow with
the most pleasing results,
The county commissioner, wit IA an
enlightened enterprise VOL worthy OF
emulation, have This year put in on
the court house ground Ia dO0llanl a
test pumping irrigation plant, Wind
power, with reservoir. This plant has
been revelation au 10 the possibilities
Of pump Irrigation, proving a thor
Ough-guinF anu most practical success.
This plant driven by an oightcau.
foot windmill and drawing Il fuuriuch
stream OF water from depth OF $50
ieul--the water 10 the well itself belur
forty 1t deep-Aud haviuK an irflgnt-
ing capacity VI ton and probably n %
teen acres, can be duplicated By any
farmer At h total CIst Of 1880
A. b. Montgomery IL puttiug In an
experimental irrigation pump-lhe
pump beiug new patent anu drawing
wAlor with both an upward ami guwu-
ward stroke, the attached reservoir
having capacity of 100000 gsil0nf.
This plant now about completed anu
practically au assured auCUe11t viii
irrigatc fifteen acres OF land. The
plant cost $3.50, $40 " which which
was expendou In constructing the res
CTvOir. The windmill Is siEteou feet.
The county nlready has about $50
Of these pumping plants aui the mum.
Der Will be ~ least douhleIlu 1895.
Thomas county, Kansas, Is fast iall-
Ing into the rauku OF tue great irIiga-
ton march which isHD F1Ju 60 cover
tue fertile bottoms aud rich II lAuts OF
western kansas with the pump, the
canal and tins reservoir. rho Thomas
county man r. saying, not only 90
nj uselt but also that all can hear
him, that i've, ton, htoeu, twenty,
tmuy or forty acres under the constant
culture AMI prolific prOluut Of irrlgu-
tion, aIe muUu better than the spas.
m0dirsucUrsb,aud intermittent Increase
VI 100, 6uO, 200 or 2,OlJ acrss under
tho moisture conditions peculiar 10 tht
western miuuult. 10 IL u question of
a biyd in tho hand or twJ iu the
hush. ln the one case tue one uir1 De-
already uuu ght-.n tue O,u,f case, the
two birds are mote or lose shy, ln0mHa
county ~ ready Tor irrigation, aud irr.
CATION Is ready Tor lhUnai county.
The water supply, computing sheet,
sreplge, uutsInIw ami surface
volume, 10 exhaust ss ana 10 OF come
parauvoiy moSbsnslve Utilization. the
sheet WGtut uuurrIies the gJil 40 depths
0i from TWO ~ $50 feet tho surface
water is constituted by tnn currents OF
running M p0uu.like MYERS anu orueEr'
the overflow 10 found alike beneath
the beds OF dry VI living ttrcamfi
while the soepago water Issues from
| FpT ing or marsh.
The sheet water can DO utilised by
| wlnI power pumps tue surface water
can be guided iutJ caEAl or ditch; th'
uuderhgW can DO tapped AMI tho aas p