Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-27
NEW WATER LITTER
 AID TO IRRIGATION
(Fort Collins. Colo, Express.)

(Fort Collins, Colo, Express.)
 There has just been pat to practi- cal test at J. B. Gaylor's ranch an ap pliance for lifting water that prem 1 ises to revolutioniZe irrigation meth ods in localities where land lies toe hgh to make a gravity ditch p-acti- 1 cable or where ditch would have to be brought a considerable distance to reach the land desired. It Is known as the R. & G. Pneumatic Water Lift, and is the invention of l.. c. Robinson and J. B. Gaylor, of this place, and is protected by United States patent. It may be made of metal or wood, or both. The one in use consists of a wheel or drum sixteen feet leng, and six and one-half feet ip diameter, made to revolve on a metal axis. To the outer surface are fastened longi- tudinai paddles, making total diam eter of ten feet. The whole is sup ported and floated on pontoon con trivance, the paddles catching the cur. rent of the river and supplying power on the simple principle of an under, shot water wheel. When the news paperman saw it it was drawing about two feet of water, but can be adjusted to any depth.
 The center around the axis is sim ply a hollow core and has Ro part in the lift Between this core and the outer surface of the drum is a spiral water channel extending longlitudi- nal1y thereof This channel has an open mouth or intake at one end ex, tending slightly beyond the outer di. 1r lafn faf hn yeI that it faces in the direction of rota. tion and will dip given quantity of water at each revolution of the wheel At the opposite end of the spiral channel is an outlet consisting of a pipe which is connected to and dis charges through the axis at one end which is made hollow for the Dur- pose. Attached to this by swiyeied arrangement is six-inch discharge pipe, the outer end of which is ese- vated to the height to which it Is de. sired to raise the water. The intake being submerged, only a portion of | the time, takes in only a prescribed quantity of water As the wheel -e l wolves this water seeks the lowest | part of the spiral channel, and is fol l lowed in turn by given amount o
 air until the intake is again sub
 merged. Thus the process is repeat | ed, the spiral channel being tiilet
 with successive quantities of watel l and air. As it advances in the chan
 nel and the resistance becomes great CT the air becomes more compressed the channel being so arranged as t
 maintain the proper proportion of wa ter and air throughout it's entir, length. The revolution of the spira channel and the consequent com pression of the air causes the wate
 to be discharged with great fore through the outlet by what might b
 called pneumatic hydraulic pressure Aside from the main wheel itself
 which revolves in a rigid framework
 there Is no movable part to get out Q
 repair, and not valve to becom
 worn and leaky The points that e:
 pecially recommend it are it's great ei
 ficiency and extreme simplicity Tn
 uses of a water lift of this kind ar
 too many and apparent to need di:
 cussion here.
 This invention is not an experiment
 but a practical success, and we b'
 lieve it's superiority will at once caus
 it to be generally adopted. It can b
 made in any size and placed in eithe
 running or still water. In the latte
 case an outside force would be r
 quired to drive it. The one inoper;
 ton at Mir. Gaylor's raneh-which, b the way, is the first one ever built was seen by representative of thi
 paper 8 couple of days ago. Tw weeks had passed since it was put i and it has never stopped five minute in that time. It was raising 75 ga
 Ions per revolution to height of ?