Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-23
DELAN0 SETTLERS REPORT
AMPLE SUPPLY OF WATER
PUMPS GET CONSTANT FLOW AT
SLIGHT DEPTHS
Well Known Development Companies
Are Piping to Ten and Twenty
Acre Tracts for Orchard
Purposes

An advertisement appearing in The
Herald's Pacific coast real estate bull
letin last Sunday, and inserted by John
e. Yoakum, on page l, referring to land
at Delano, which read: abundance OF
water at from 80 to 600 feet should
have read: Abundance of water at
from 80 to 60 feet"
The following information regarding
water in the Delano region has been
gathered:
Mr.. Black, one mile north of McFar-
land, has secured a well opposite Mr..
Archie Smith of San Gabriel at depth
of 79 feet, and has an ample supply
equal to 100 inches of mater.
Mr.. Close, one mile west of McFad-
den, has a we'll so feet deep, and pumps
a continuous flow of 100 inches.
Mr.. Perkuss, 1.-The Rose Man." with a
well at a 90-foot depth, pumps a con-
tinuous flow of las inches. with the
water rising to % feet of the surface.
The Orange Home Improvement as
ISOLATION of Alhambra has secured ad-
joining the city limits of Delano, on the
Thomas place, a well at a. depth of 81
feet with a 60-inch continuous flow.
And in the near vicinity, two and one
half miles southeast of Delano, it has
secured an even better WE'LL
Had All He Wanted
Thos. w. Aisbitt of Venice, Cal, for
merly an operator in this valley, hav-
ing returned from Delano, reports that
MIR. Armstrong, at d point five miles
north of Delano, has just completed a
well and secured a flow of water from
60 to 70 inches at depth of so feet, the
water rising near the surface. MI
Aisbitt asked Mr.. Armstrong why he
did not drive the we'll farther and get
more water, to which he replied: Il
got all 1 wanted. Why should 1 &c
farther?"
Mr.. Armstrong; property on the
south adjoins Mr.. Slitz, on whose prop
erty there is a similar we'll of greater
capacity. which, with 25-horsepoweI
engine, throws CONTINUOUS now VI ~
inches.
William Atkinson, north of Delano'
adjoining the city limits. has a 1O-inch
well, "a feet deep, which, with an eight
horsepower engine and a No. 3 pump,
throws 30 inches of water.
The S. B. F. Morse Development COM
pany, composed of such well known
neonle as John Hayes Hammond and
Harry Payne Whitney of New York
owns more than 1000 acres adjoining
the town of Delaho on the north and
east. This company is subdiViding Its
property into ten and twenty-acre
tracts, and selling same for orchards
and vineyards. The poncy OF the coih-
pany is to develop wells. pipe the water
underground in cement pipes to each
ten and twenty-acre tract. and turn
the ownership of the well and pumping
plant over to the purchasers OF the
land.
Largely through the efforts of the
Morse Development company, the Mt
Whitney Power company of Visalia
has determined to extend its power
on this extension is now being carried
on as fast as is possible. so that in
short time pumping plants can be ope-
rated solely by electric power and thus
than by gas or steam engines.
This company purchased its holdings
after almost a year of extensive re-
search throughout the valley. and the
size of it's operations is only an added
proof of the fact that property in and
near Delano is unsurpassed for farming
purposes.