Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-11-01
PUMP ,RRloArsoss.
Nothing Done In this Section With
the Project.

Nothing Done In this Section with
the Project.
q The season has passed and not q,
move has been made in the way of re-
claiming any Of the lands Of this val
ley by, irrigation with pumps. Other
States and other sections have landed
the project beyond the experiment..
stage and In Arizona and California
many thousands Of acres have been
made prolific with. the aid Of pumps.
Some people are Of the idea that
pumping for irrigation is new scheme
and is untried. 1t was used over three
thousan d years ago by the Egyptians
who pumped from the river and sent
the waters over the dessert lands and
made the crops the heaviest Of the
worl d. at the time. Little has been
done to advance the idea since the
time, and It is only within the past
few years that pumping as a means of
irrigation has been placed in actual
and profitable USE
California is fast coming to the
front with the method In some places
whole tracts of land are being placed
in a condition that invites the immi-
grant, and in fact several valleys that
were abandoned as useless are now
under cultivation and supporting fam
lilies, that few years ago were re-
garded as useless.
A dozen Or more firms are now in
the field with apparatus that is de
signed to do the work. They are all
on the same plan, that of raising wa
/ ter and the methods are generally
8 the same; plenty of water at the least
{. cost. Centrifugal pumps are the gen
!. eral in use, and they have proven the
!. most efficient, as they lift volume 81
e water at the least cost and power ey
q ertion 81
II In speaking of this method of irriga
s ton the Orchard and Farm, Califor
4 MIA periodical, states as follows:
4 "a pumping plant has been install
ed near Pleasanton, Cal, for the ir
II rigation of eighty acres of beets On
S ly two or. three small irrigation plant
have been installed in the section ma
med. The water for the new plant i
feet deep, and Ofeet apart, connecte
by a tunnel at the 15-foot level, in
pit to which the machinery is places
The pump, with capacity OF 1900 ga
Il Ions per minute against a head of 3
feet and is designed for the creates
efficiency under the circumstance:
This pump is to be operated by ga
engine, using gas generated from
very low grade of distillate.'
The above is about the same tha
is needed in this section. Water an
plenty of it is obtainable at shalo
distance, fifty and seventy-fve fee
and in most instances it is artesial
Three wells of the description aboy
would supply water for an ordinal
farm. If 80 acres can be irrigated
California, where the soil is just 1
dry and weather warmer, it is safe
predict that the same could be iri
gated here with the like amount
water. Fifteen hundred gallons Of W
ter per minute is flow that wou
keep farmer pretty busy handlin
in fact, it is considerably more thu
most of the ranchers of this VALE
possess or attempt to utilize. Tn
means 10000 gallons per hour, viii;
is somewhat of a stream, and the W
ter is under this city and the d
lands which surround it.
Instead of gasoline, which is mo
or less bother and requires attentio
there is electricity in this valley, al
the company has offered to make CO
cessions to any farmer who will {
it out. With the electric motor the
is no more trouble turning the pla
into operation that there is to turn
your electric lights. It runs witho
an engineer, and about all that is M
essary is oiling and packing a pun
With all the advantages that a
spread before the people of Carson.
is a wonder that some of them do r
take advantage of the fact and pla
themselves in a position to be as
dependent as the farmers who o'
cultivated lands and water rights.