The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-01-10
STATE NEWS.

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Ltd, have purchased new pump
ing plant of Boland & Gschwind.
OF the latest improved design.
The opening of the pumping sea
son of 1900 will find them ready to
irrigate 1000 acres of rice, against
1900 this year.
I The power plant consists of two
! stationary boilers, " inches by Is
feet, with flush end, and ~ tubes,
four inches by Is feet. The boilers
weigh 10000 pounds and have 60
foot smOkestacks. The engine is
a V1ttcr improved horizontal Cor
liss engine, size of cylinders 22x42,
800 horse power and weighing H.
600 pounds. The name "Capt. ID.
E. Sweet will be placed on the
engine in gilt. The engine is fitted
with Gardner duplex boiler feed
pump, with independent injector
for each boiler.
The pumps are two Of Ivens'
1S-inch improved heavy duty
double suction pattern 1S-ineh dis
charge. The pump is 32-foot lift,
guaranteed to throw $4,000 gallons
of water per minute under mOder-
ate pressure and 10000 gallons
per minute under enforced draft.
The pump has steam-driven jet
condenser. Rope transmission is
used.
The machinery will be delivered
by Feb. 10Th and is to be in opera
ton by March 18th. It will be
shipped up by boat from Mermen-
tau. The selling agents take the
old plant.
While vast improvements are
being made in the pumping plant,
almost as important a stride for
ward is being made in the canal
system. The main canal Of three
miles has been extended during the
summer two miles further west
and is now at the Marais. The
Marais will be flumed with a GOO
foot cypress fume and from that
point the canal will be extended
yet one mile more, giving main
canal of six miles and seven miles
of principal laterals.
East of Marais the new canal
will water the farms of A. and p.
Land'y, U. s. Phillips, j. N. Pat
ridge, P. Longman, s. Gary, F.
Lopez, w. M. Williams, Red La
bauve, M. V. Marsh and others;
west of the Marais, w. FL. Sim
mons, L. Cotton, Harry Bryan, the
Stoddard farm and others.
The old canal of a half mile,
leading from the bayou to the
pump will be dredged to a width
Of "a feet and depth of six feet
atlow water.
The power plant is ample to
drive three pumps and with two
pumps will be capable Of irrigat-
ing 5000 acres, fully tripling the
capacity of the old plant
The Jennings Irrigation Co. is
officered by ID. E. Sweet, president;
w. H. Simmons, vice president; G.
L. Pardee, secretary. They have
an authorized capital Of $4,000,
have expended fully double that
amount and have probably the
third largest irrigating plant III
Calcasieu parish.-Jennings Times
| A CALL.
The regular monthiy meeting OF
this association will be held on
Thursday, Jan 1lth. al s p. m. a.
No. 7I2 Union street, New Orleans,
1t Is anticipated that the meeting
will be a very Interesting one II
man, respects, and an lnvitatlor
ha- h-.n extended to the members
of the Association of Agriculture
C,nm,ss,opera Of the Southern
States. who will be holding tbei
annual session in New Orleans a
that time, 10 be preseni at the meet
ING of our ASSOCIATION. II is hoPet
these distinguished gentlemen vii
accep: the invitation. aud the mem
bers of the Louisiana Sugar Pian
tess Association will doubtless, b
on hand IN full force to give them
loo.J,c1 woloouo Ey