Arizona republican., 1904-03-05
SOLUTION OF A PROBLEM
Cheap Power for Raising Water Upon
 Salt River Valley Ranches.

| Chaplain Winfield Scott has just re- 1 turned from Kansas City where he has | been Investigating cheap power for ir- riGatiCn and mechanical puprsCes. He, with Mir Judson A. Elliott also con-
 tr2cted for the manufacture of a pump that will supersede all of the single ac- | tiCn pumps in the United States. It is
 single cylinder double action pump. ! that throws a continuous stream of
 water. and will furnish double the vol
 ume of water with the same power of any pump in existence. It is very simple. is constructed with ball and metal valves and so arranged that sand cannot injure. It is especially adapted to dry wells, and it works sub merged. It can be made of any size and is adapted to windmills, to pump water for stock or household purposes. 1 The end 70 inch cylinders are adapted for irrigation purposes. Two of these eight inch pumps are being operated successfully at Tucson and each of
 them is irrigating eighty acres of land -l twelve inch cylinder will throw a 10O-ich stream constant flow. sufiC- tent to iirigate 2O3 acres of land. It
 doesn't require half the power 10 ra .se
 the same water that a centrifugal pump does and can be worked in the
 pipe of any bored well.
 This pump has been thoroughly test
 ed for the past five years. and took the
 premium when first patented, at the California state fair It has been im-
 proved since and now stands the sever est tests and is a pronounced success.
 One of the pumps, Ca three inch) Was on exhibition at Temre recently. ItI wasi inspected by number of practical raEcEers and others, and quite a large number of them ordered pumps. An eight inch pump is being made to bel nl-ced in T. J. Parrys well nearI Tempe, where a practical test will be made Of !t for irrigation purposes.
 The greatest interest to every farmer in the Salt river valley is cheap power that can be now had to run a pump. Experiments have shown that there is plenty of water under the lands at 2 moderate depth. varying from 9 to 50 feet which if it can be raised chearly enough and utilized, will add great
 value to all the lands and untold value to the products of the soil. This prob- lem of cheap power has been solved. Gas from charcoal from wood, and even from corn cObs is being manufac- tUTed SO Cheaply that a small rl1ch cen use it in an engine. and pump water for a mere song. The use of this gas manufactured from charcoal was especially investigated. The Webcr Manufacturing Co. was running their entire factory With these gas engines al an expense of three -sixteenths of 2 cent per hour per horse power. h other words two engines agEreg eglt.ns 2G-hOrse power were running success fully at a cost Of - cents for ten hours. The tharcoal used was costing $500 per ton. T. v'as found that the company was manufacturing and ship ping several large TlaGts to Old Me- ico Two 125-hOrse power engines wee ready to ship and others had b5en shipped to HermosiIlc, Mexico and are operating successfully and making a 1 great saving. Eighty cents per day | wzs furnishing gas to run the plant talEins the place of gasoline that had been costing this cCmnany SlO.O0 per day. A 10-hOrse power engine is ample | to un 10 inch double acting pump l that will throw 90 inches of water ! constant flow. With charcoal at S10 | per ton, this plant can he run for 10 ! hours at a cost not to exceed 75 cents. l 4NC CHS ll4G4 AS l-S-AAttA lO Gli It, II A-tF7
 an automatic feeder and only needs to l be looked after four or five times a day l to replace coal and clean it. There IS l no danger of an explosion and no waste Of gas. The cost for the install | ation Of a plant to irrigate 2OJ acres | of land is far below the cost of water 1 rights for the same land, and the cost to pump the water is much less than !