Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-22
WATER LITTER MAY
REVOLUT|ON|zE
IRRIGATION
Ingenious Device Tested in
Colorado viii Be of Greatest
Benefit to the Southwestern
Farmers.
(Tort Collins Exnress.l

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There has just been put to practical
test at j. b.. Gavlor's ranch an APP
pliance for lifting water thai prom
ises to revolutionize irrigation meth
DDS in localities where land lies too
high to make a gravity ditch practi-
cable or where a ditch would have to
be brought a considerable distance To
reach the and desired. 1t Is known as
he r. q q. Pneumatic Water Lift,
n is the invention of l.. c. Robinson
and j. r. GaylOr. of this place. and
is protected by United States patent.
IT may be mad of metal or wood, or
both. The one I'm use consists Of a
wheel or drum sixteen feet long, and
six and one-half feet in diameter.
made to revolVe on a metal axis. To
The outer surface are fastened longi-
tudinal paddles, making a total diam
eter of ten feet. The whole is sup
ported and floated on a pontoon CON
triNance, the paddles catching the
current of the river and supplying
power on the simple principle of an
understood water wheel. When the
Record man saw it it was drawing
about two feet of water, but can be
adjusted to any depth.
The center around the axis is sim
NV > hollow core and has no part i'm
the lift. Between this core and the
outer surface of the drum is a spiral
water channel extending longitudinal
~ thereof. This channel has an omen
mouth or intake at one end extending
slightly beyond the outer diameter of
the drum, and SO arranged that it
faces i'm the direction of OtatiOn and
will dip a 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 discharges through
tn" axis at one md, which is made
hollow for the purpose. Attached to
this by a sNiVeled arrangement is a
siv-inch discharge pipe. the outer end
of which is elevated to the height to
which il is desired 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 ~rcVOlVes this water seeks the
p We mart If the sniral channel. and
is followed in turn by a given amount
or AIR until the intake is again sub
merged. Thus the process Is repeated.
the spiral channel being filled with
successive quantities Of water and ali.
As 1t advances I'm the chaupol and the
resistance becomes greater the air be-
comes more compressed, the channel
being so arranged as to maintain the
proper proportion Of water and air
throughout its entire length. The rev
Ul Ailt hlllHl Iiidllti anu the
consequent compression of the air
causes the water to be discharged with
gre"t force through the outlet h. wh~t
might be called pneumatic hydraulic
pressure.
Aside from the main wheel itself.
which revolves in a rigid framework.
there IS no movable part to get out Of
repair. ana not a valve to become
worn and leaky. The points that cs-
nnPfaIfN vennrn m RfaI" a. upe ifg uYaaf Of
ficiency and extreme simplicity. The
uses of a water lift of this kin are
too many apparent to need dis
Cussion here.
This invention is not an experiment,
hut a practical success. and we be-
licve Its superiority will at once cause
n to be generally adopted. 1t can be
made in any size and placed In either
running or still water. In the latter
case an outside force would be re-
quired to drive ii. The one inopera-
tom AT Mi. GaNlor's ranch-which. by
the way, is the first one over built
was seen by a representative of this
ape q couple of days & Two
weeks had passed since II was put IN
and IL has never stopped five minutes
IN that time. II was raising Is gal
Ions per revolution to q height of 25
feet, and seemed 10 ave immense re-
serve power. Tho water being raised
would ~irrigate more han 100 acres
of land. and it was not running any
where near its capacity. Its useful
ness may be shown by the statement
that not "a foot Of the land could ever
be brought under a gravity ditch.
Here are the points that Will make
the II. & G. Pneumatic Water Lift
largely sought and used, viz: II is
reasonable as 10 cost, extremely sim
pie Of construction. leaving little pos
sibility OF us getting out of order and
Is " great capacity and efficiency.