The Globe-republican., 1894-05-18


thi. season only, irrigating three aud a
/ half acres OF sweet potatoes, one acre "f
turnips and one OF tomatoes and cabbage;
total, eight and q half acres, and bis
crops were excellent, both in quality AMI
quantity.
BROAD CHALLENGE.
Capt. E. l.. Hall hes two inch pumps
run by tive 1O-fOot mills, capable "f i,Is-
ing 100 gallons per minute into his ,e--
ervoir, which is 10 by 100 feet in size.
He irrigated twenty acres of fruit trees
and vegetables last season-the first.
His plant cost S275, complete. Capt.
Hall issues 3 standing challenge to the
world to show finer growth Of apple
trees in the samelength Of time that he
can chow in his orchard.
G.J. Manatt and Mrs. North have =
plant like Capt Halls and irrigated ten
acres OF vegetables last season, that be-
ing Also their first.
". E. Trull, Rsv. J. 7. Pearce and W.
II. Scott have each a G-inch pump and
10 foot mill, installed last year, and ell
have obtained good results.
The same is true Of G. L. Holmes, whn
has 5-iuch pump, and Of F. B. Rich.
who has a 5inch pump and 4inch cyi'n-
! der, connected by y walking beam and
RIM by ~ 1O-foot c.;,l,
N.FA.FA, vEGETAI q. IS, FRUITS: FISH, ICE.
All the wells Included in the regOing
descriptions are on valley lard aud are
of the ''drive well" sort made by driving
down perforated, gauze- covered points
into the saturated sand and gravel, and
ali these plants lift the water Ii to Is
feet. Water is so readily obtained in
moderate quantities by the use of these
driven wells, that few open wells have
been made as yet; but the largest pump
ing plant for irrigation in this vicinity.
that of l. L. Diesem, employs an open
we'll. AIR. Diesem's we'll is IL feet deep,
feet in diameter, curbed with 2-inch
lumber. Its supply is reinforced, how
ever, by two "points," driven down in
the bottem of the we'll eight or to- feet,
thus putting them down some twenty
five feet below the surface. The water
is hoisted BY an S-inch pump, run by a
10 foot mill, giving capacity Of 100
gallons per minute. He has two reser-
voirs, side by side, one being GO by 1CO
feet and the other 80 by $50 feet, the
banks ~ to feet high, 1s feet thick at
the base and to fest across the top.
The pump, tower aud mill cost $500; the
vel, $t00, and the two reservoirs, 500;
total, for entire outfit, $40. 1t could be
duplicated for less money now. He has
irrigated ten acres of mixed crops with
it three seasons, puts up an average of
200 tons Of ice from his reservoirs each
wiuter and has fine lot of fish in them.
There are many more pumping plants
in and about Garden City, but these will
suffice as types and illustrations of what
pumping may be made to do for iiriga-
tion. Scores, perhaps hundreds, OF simi
lar plants will be installed the coming
season, not only in the vicinity of Gar
len City, bus up aad down the valley
aud IN fact in different localities through
out the plans.
LOOKING FORWARD.
One OF the most notable individual
plans in this direction is that of our we'll
known merchant, VIM. Golfer. On q sec
ton of his land five miles east of the
the city, he has, by means Of teams and
scrapers, scooped out a we'll 20 feet wide
by 100 feet long, the water being but six
feet below the surface, and the dirt
taken out being used to form the banks
OF a reservoir large enough to contain
10000 barrels of water. He has put up
one S-iach pump and s. foot mill and will
add to the capacity Of his pumping
plants as may be necessary until water
enough is assured to irrigate his entire
section, which he will subdivide into
small tracts OF ten to twenty acres, each
in the hands of . farmer who will utiliz
these facilities for high farming to the
best advantage.
Although Garden City has been the
forerunner and exemplar in this, % il
all other matters of irrigation develop
ment in Kansas, other localities are be-
ginning to profit by our experience and
our other advantages, of healshfuluess,
.qsubie climate, etc, nothing could pre-
Vent building up here cities rivaling in
wealth and splendor all that 10 Known,
or imagined, of ancient Nineveh and
Babylon, and surrounded by such rural
developments as never yet has been sp-
rr"@:hed in the history of the race.
Eut, rs an irrigation water supply can
pa had only ia limited quantities, and,
IKE all other good and valuable things,
c sts time, meney and labor to obtain it.