Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-26
NEW SYSTEM IF PUMPING IS
 INVENTED
D. w. Starett, of Oakland, Cal, Perfects System of
 Pumping by Com
 pressed Air.

Col. J. c. Martin, formerly of Pres
 colt, Arizona, and now from Los Ange- les, arrived in the city several several days ago, in company with Mir. B. M. Howard, of Salt Lake City, on busi-
 ness connected with the promotion of
 the company which is manufacturing
 the Starrett pump. The pump was
 invented by one D. w. Starrett, and has been taken over by the W. G.
 Leale Co.,, of San Francisco. which is
 being financed at the present time. This company was organized under
 the laws of California for the purpose of manufacturing the new pump. The
 company is capitalized at $500, ,OO0, li- vided into 500,00O shares of the par
 value of s1.00. Some very prominent
 men of San Francisco and Berkeley are interested in the new company.
 The new pump is built on the princi- pie Of Hitting water or any other fluid ! by means of compressed air. While
 the system of pumping by compressed
 air is by no means new, it has not
 hitherto been put into general use for | the very good reason that the condi-
 tions necessary for its successful, or rather practical, operation, have been
 prohibitive in the majority of cases. Up to the present time the best known system of pumping by compressed air has been the simple one invented by a Dr. Pohl, whereby air is conducted through pipe into well and turned upward into water discharge pipe, carrying a certain percentage of water with it. This method has many de-
 fleets, and this was what made Star rett devote his time and attention to the perfection of pump which a great many people told him would never be successful, because they said the very principle upon which he started to work was a contradiction of of a nat ural law. This did not deter him from his purpose, and at the present
 time he is able to show his former critics that they were wrong in what they said about his principles being a
 contradiction of law of nature. The new pump is so very simple that when the patents were applied for the pat ent department at Washington were going to refuse them on the grounds that the machine was imperative. MT. Starrett immediately went to Wash ington, and demonstrated that the ma chine would do everything required of it. The patents were issued imme- diately. Many of the new style of pump have been installed at differ ent places in California, and the com pany has received the most gratifying letters of satisfaction from the pur- chasers. Many of the most promin- ent engineers on the Pacific Coast have studied the new invention, and have given it the stamp of their. ap- proval. -...
 It is claimed by the manufacturers of the invention that their system of pumping will eventually take the place of the ponderous pumps which are now in use throughout the mining world. Thousands and thousands of dollars are expended each, year by companies in different lines for pump
 ing plants, but if the new invention is all that is claimed for it, it will only be matter of a few years when this large item of expense is greatly reduc- ed. This pumping expense is especial Iy true in mining, where at times large bodies of water have to be lifted in