The Holly chieftain., 1907-03-15
Pump Irrigation
Individual Pumping Plants.

individual pumping plant, says 4. l..
Dicsem, and this opinion is getting
more support every day. The posi-
biiities of wider irrigation by this
method are becoming more apparent.
ana this system of lifting water on
the land will be considerably extend
ed in the Garden City area in the
future. says the Garden CITY Tele-
1r2m
The work which has already been
ACCOMPLISHED by Individual pumping
Giants mas already given Finney coun-
" a great deal of Advertising The
Earth OF Chicago and other publica-
tions have given sracc to this. Sec
retary Coburn's biennial report of this
year gives information on this line.
and includes a cut OF Mr. Diesem and
his plant
An example of the attention in out
side sources to this feature of Finncy
county's advantage is shown in CO;
cular letter sent by gas power com
pany to all its branch managers and
sales agents. This letter gives the
following special information about
irrigating near Garden City:
1--WE are frequently asked by pros
pective customers. real estate dealers
and capitalists, relative to the cost of
irrigating land, and desire you to be
informed on the subject:
"In our Garden City branch we
have installed large number of
plants and the following data cover
ing small individual plants is reliable.
For 100 acre irrigating plant it
will require.
One IL h. p. gasoline engine
and one No, E Centrifugal
pump -. Observation-Disclosures $1,000
Necessary piping in wells,
foundation and rough la
Dor ............... 5000
Three shallow wells, so #.
deep, at $Ioo ............. 10000
otal ..............9I2 100000
This plant will deliver 1000 gal
Ions per minute out of these three
wells, which is ample to cover nine
acres, three inches deep, when being
operated twelve hours per day.
Carefully kept records of operat-
ing cost chow that these engines re-
quire not to exceed IS gallons of
gasoline, which makes the operating
expense $2.2s for fuel; adding rs
cents for lubricating oil makes to-
tai expense of $3.50. 1t would require
to irrigate this land four times in
season. which would make the plant
operate at least 60 days per season.
per acre.
AT Rocky Ford, Colo, with gas
engine and suction gas producer, we
installed a IS hp equipment driving a
No. I2 Centrifugal pump, which sup
piled sufficient water for 1000 acres,
large part Of which was wheat that
does not require quite as much as
beets, sweet potatoes, and melons, and
the fuel expense on the plant was less
than $500 and labor about the same
amount, SO that their total expense
was about so cents per annun, per
acre.
They also used the power from
this producer plant for threshing out
their wheat, their yield being about
5000 bushels off of 600 acres, which
was the first crop taken from this
land. The threshermen say that the
expense was most exceptional that
they ever used, and beats a traction
rig, because of its uniformity"
AT Greeley, Colo, we have large
number OF plants, like at Garden City,
with the exception that their water
supply is usually taken from bitches
or seepages, and they do not have
the expense OF wells. They figure
their cost of irrigation about ST.. so per
arnum. with gasoline engine, but. Of
course, a smaller investment is re-
luired where wells are necessary"