Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-04-04
From the Logan Republican,
RAISING AND TRANSMITTING
WATER.

RAISING AND TRANSMITTING
WATER.
The irrigation meeting at Logan
last week was called to order with A,
W. Tracy in the chair. A paper Oh
the above subject was prepared by
Mr.. Hansen which we produce below
and the balance Of the program was
carried over to next week:
"For several weeks your meeting
has honored me with the question OF
raising and transmitting water. The
question has each week been some-
what changed until now it is; "How
to raise water 80 feet aud conduct II
one-fourth mile" This does not
seem to me a fair praclcal question.
FIRST, do not believe water can be
successfully elevated 80 feet for lrrl
gating purposes, and certainly not
where the amount is 80 large that It
must be conducted one-fourth mule
in order to fnd water enough to use
the supply, This whole question of
raising water reminds me of the re-
ceipt for cooking rabbit that starts
out by saying: first catch the rab
Bit" WhlesL think irrigation prac
tical in small way, l think it is Idle
to discuss raising it 80 feet and con-
Quoting it one-fourth mile, simply
because in my opinion you can no
place find water 80 feet below the
surface where you cannot find land
sufficient within 30 rods to use 1t ALL
My experience with raising and con-
Quoting water that distance has been
failure. / do not say that it cannot
be done, but l do wish to say that it
cannot be done prohtably. However,
this is depressing from the sui ject.
The question asked me Is not one OF
profit or water supply but simply the
best way of raising and conducting
the water. Now this depends great
" on the man who wishes to do the
raising and conducting. Very able
writer's recommend wind mills; 9th
ers recommend gasoline engines;
some one kind of a pump and others
another. And the same thing is
done of conducting. If the ground
is suitable and the water supply is
ample the way mostly used IS in
open bitches, If it is up hill, or the
water supply scant perhaps the only
way is by iron pipes. If much water
ia to be conducted it is very expan-
siye, so much so in fact that even a
populous city finds it hard to meet
the expense.
So to get anything practical for ir-
rlgatioD, it seems to me we must use
water raised fifty feet right around
the well, and as this is purely an ex-
pertinent, 1 would suggest the very
cheapest outfit to make the expert
ment. And If it proves u success, an
outfit that will raise water more
cheaply, even though the first outlay
is much larger, can be secured. As
things now stand, we all have great
deal more time than money.
! would therefore suggest large
well, say ten to twelve feet in dame
ter and as deep into water as it can
be gotten this will make a reservoir
Three poles forming triangle, with
a pulley at the top and another at the
bottom. Pass rope under the bot
Ito,n pulley and over the top one; pu
a 3O-gallon barrel at Que end, one OF
two horses at the other, and if yor
don't believe you can lift three bar
rels of water per minute, just asl
Moses, McKrosky or Bowman. Now
this would make 1900 barrels in on
day, and would be sufficient to max
quite an experiment with avery SINAI
outlay of cash. And if after trying
one season the result will Justify, W
would surely have to take down on
rope, poles, etc, and erect such
= plant as our experience would tell U
we could afford. And should it nc
prove q success we would merely hay
lost certain nHmbeF Of days worl
which. I AM sorry to say, We bay
often done, even without getting maC
experience. There is one further az
: vantage in lifting the water in N
+ way, over Windmill; we can mai
a calculation ahead and SCI day
p hour for irriGating without having
consult the wind, which, if you wat
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