Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-05-04
At the MesIa Park Agricultural
College a Decided Success
...Proyen by Actual Work.
1000 GALLONS
PER MINUTE
Secured in Steady Flow Every Day
for a Week...More Plants Installed
...Spanish.english Stenogra.
pliers Get lucrative Positions.

special Correspondence New Mexican
Mesilla Park, N. NJ, May 2-The an
nual outgoing of students from the
stenosraphy department at the Agri-
cultural College here has commenced.
Last week three students left to accept
positions as English-Spanish stenogra.
piers at very good salaries. A w.
kuenzli went to the City. of Mexico, r.
| H. Mellen TO a manufacturing concern
| in Chihuahua, and E. R. Melen to Ha-
vana, Cuba. to take responsible posi-.
ton with the Munson Steamship line.
A significant point in regard to these
young men is that all of them resigned
good positions as English stenogra-
piers in Illinois and Wisconsin last
summer to come out to this college to
take work in English-Spanish stenogra-
ply This work has fitted them to fill
better positions than those they re-
signed and, as has always been the
case, these young men go out to posi-
tions of much promise in their oppor-
tunites. Several other students of the
stenography department expect to
leave for positions between this time
and the close of the year.
In the midst of the prevailing drouth
in this valley attention is renewed to
the matter of pumping for irrigation.
Crops generally have suffered very ser.
iously from the continued absence of
water in the river but it is doubtful if
this misfortune is not. after all, bless.
ing in disguise. AS one person ex-
pressed it few days ago, IF the farm
ers of our valley were 20 feet lower.
they would all drown" With all the
drouth and lack of water the college
has been steadily pumping from it's six
inch well discharging a stream of the
vital fluid sufficient to irrigate the en-
tire college farm. By tomorrow even
ing the pumping plant will have run
for week, day and night, without in
termission, during which time the well
has discharged steady stream Of l.
900 gallons a minute. Careful records
and measurements were made in
twelve inch well to see the
effect of this continued pumping upon
the level of the water table beneath.
For few days the water level sank
gradually. but for the past two days
it has remained stationary. 1t would
thus appear that continual flow of
1000 gallons minute from a given
space is unable seriously to lower the
level of the water supply available
When it is considered that during the
past week this six inch we'll has dis
charged total of 10,080,000 gallons of
water, the possibilities in the direction
of pumping for irrigation in this valley
appear to be tremendous.
The attention of farmers generally
is. of course, being attracted more
than ever to the question of pumping
for irrigation and number of irrigat-
ing plants will probably be installed
in the near future. Two large plants
are now in course of construction, one
by G H. Totten, of Mesilla, for the
purpose of irrigating his alfalfa ranch
of $50 acres the plant consisting of
2S horse power Ohio gasoline engine,
Byron-Jackson pump, and ten inch
we'll Frank Burke of this place is al
so installing a pumping plant, using an
Otto gas engine and twelve inch well,
the plant to be used in the irrigating
Of his fine apple orchard.
Unusual preparations are being made
for the successful carrying out of the
annual field day. which takes place
next Friday, May g. The usual attrac-
tive program has been prepared and
special interest is given to this occa-
sion as .the~various events will be pre-
paratory to the big intercollegiate tract
meet to be held on May 81, at this
place. when teams from the Albuquer
que University and the Albuquerque In
dian School will be present to COM
pete for the honors of the occasion.