Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-01

voltage of electricity to almost any
distant without appreciable loss,
with this invention, the central
power-plont became feasible, that is.
"a plant where electricity Is generated
end from which by means of trans
mission lines the power is conveyed
20 motors which run pumps, 50 that
All the farmer has to do is to touch
tho button, as Of old the prophet
smote the rock, and abundant water
gushes forth.
An of these means Of raising water
are now in use in the Mimbres valley.
and 10, this river, lost for ages, IS
found again: and this vast stretch Of
river valley which II took Nature
countless ages TO make into q desert,
is being unmadc into gardens and
Fields and orchards. The repopnlat-
ing Of his desert valley IL a signal
triumph of Mans genius for making
Nature subservient 10 his will.
OF course, the use OF the pump Is
"A departure from old systems Of ir-
rigation and cnlargcs the field meal
culablN. At first blush, one would
object that the cost of installing ma
chincry for lifting water out OF wells
must he prohibitive, except whore
very high-priced crops can be pro-
| duccd. Still 1t can be shown that the
initial cost Of putting land under ir-
ripntion IN the Mimhrcs valley, to
| take a single instance, is only one
third as great as the average cos
per gore of putting wttter onto lane
under the various government irriga-
ton projects now in course of con
struction,
The water occurs in the vicinity o'
| Dcming in four stratas Of and an'
gravel. the first stratum lying IRON
| sixteen to sixty fcct below the SUI
| face Of the ground, while the last II
| encountered ut u depth Of from on
| hundred to two hundred feet. Al
each successive stratum is puneture'
by the wcll-drill, the water rise
labove the level where the IRIS
stratum Is encountered, until at IN
last the water stands in the wei
about ten feet above the watel -lcNo
Of the first stratum. For instance
If the first stratum occurs az a depll
OF thirty feet and the wen is contin
ned On down to the last stratum, sa,
to "A depth of one hundred and nit,
feet. the ate viii rise in the wen q
a point about twenty feet below tn
surface of the ground. such a wei
upon being pumped at the rate of tw
Thousand gallons per minute can b
lowered sixteen or twenty feet, a
which point the water stands as lon
as II is pumped ut that rate, tn
Shull wen three miles east Of Dem
ing was pumped ut the rate of lively
hundred and fifty gallons per minut
for seventy-two hours consecutive
without the water falling below IN
folty-foot mark.
We viii describe the method fol
lowed here in installing one Of thes
pumping plants. \ test-wen is drllle
first, and an accurate log of til
drilling kept so that when the NAL
hole is drilled, the drillers will kno'
lust where to put in the strain-pip
or screen. The wen eff l.. X. Cor
naway three miles southeast Of Den
ing IS aftypical well Of this regioi
The tcst-weii disclosed the fact tina
there was one hundred and fiftee
feet of WITHDRAWING material with
the first one hundred and fifty zee
The pump to be Installed was of tw
Thousand gallons per minute capacity
land ninety feet of strainer-pipe o
sc%reen-cnsing was considered ompl
to supply this amount Of water.
~fifty-foot steel pit two feet In diam
eter was put down, and at the bot
tom of this the pump was Installed
The motive power Is furnished by
fifty horsepower gasoline engine. an
the entire installation costs in tn
neighborhood of $4,000. It furnishe
enough water to ~irrigate three hun
drcd acres of hand. The pump Is 81
| constructed that it is able to handl
Inrgc quantities OF fine sand withou
Injury to its bearings. The pumpinl
out of the sand, of curse, strength
ems the well, as 1t allows the coars