Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1911-04-14

about Anderson there are several
small pumping plants, ranging in ca
pacity from one-half to two horse
power.
At Cottonwood there are also sew
eral small plants Of the sizes last in
dicated, together with number OF
others, one of which consists Of a
five-horse-power Wagner single
phase motor belted to three-inch
vertical centrifugal pump Of Krough
manufacture, which lifts 215 gallons
OF water per minute to a total height
of twenty-six feet through six-inch
casing pipe about forty feet long.
This pump irrigates twenty-six acres
o. alfalfa, and last year the total
cost Of power for its operation was
;65.4O.
At Red Bluff a thirty horsepower
type c induction motor operates by
belt connenction an ancient type Of
five-inch Jackson centrifugal pump,
which Is used for the irrigation Of
1876 acres of orchard lands. The
plant raises 315 gallons of water
forty-eight feet through 900 feet Of
ten-inch pipe, and last year the cost
OF power for It's operation was
$314.11.
Several pumping plants are to be
found at Red Bluff, but perhaps the
most interesting consists of seven
and one-half-horse-power Wagner
motor, which Is belted
TO a No. 2k Fulton power head
for the operation Of a cylinder five
by eighty inches in size. This cylin-
der Is placed eighty-nine feet from
the top of the we'll which was bored
by the county of Tehama for expert
mental purposes with the idea of as
certaining II 1t were possible to OBJ
tain artesian water. Originally the
well was drilled to a depth of 1875
feet, but as natural flow of water
was not obtained at that depth. it
was decided to open out the well
With dynamite. Owing to an acci-
lent. however, the charge went off
}rematurely in the neighborhood of
800 feet from the top, with the re-
'ult that its depth is now only ATS |
eet, but it gives an unlimited sup
'ly OF water. It Is a ten-inch bored
veil with steel casing.
Three miles below Red Bluff on
he Sacramento River there is
wenty-horse-power induction motor
Which drives by direct connection a
Trough centrifugal pump that lifts
500 gallons of water per minute to
height Of twenty-six feet with a
otal or over all efficiency of sixty
Inc per cent. This plant irrigates
lightly acres Of alfalfa; 1t runs ap-
roximately eight days during each
we weeks, and the land It irrigates
aises annually seven crops of alfalfa {
cost of $1S5 per year for power. {
AT Tehama there are several small [
lants, most Of which are for domes-
C and household uses, but one of
lem is worthy Of special note IN
nat Is consists Of three-horse-pow-
wagner single-phase motor driv.
lg by direct connenction a Gould
'iplex plunger pump, which supplies
he town with wuter.
AT Corning there are in particular
Vo ten-horse-power plants, each OF I
Mich furnishes water for the irri- |
alton OF orange groves, each motor
eng OF the Induction tyLe md con- '
ecteC tc i's respective pump by belt >
g. in the first installation tower /,
pc Byron Jackson two and one-half a
ch pump lit water a total Of 1S5 r
ct through lines of threelnch red n
ood pipe, each LOO feet long Il
hence the water Is delivered to
servoir, from which II flows by IL
aVity over a forty-acre orange y
act The cost Of power for the op- ., o.
alton OF this plant last year was n
10. In the second plant a three et
en- centrifugal pump OF the hori- =,
ntal shaft type lifts water to n ="
light OF sixty-flve feet through $50
et OF five-Inch standard screw iron pa
pc into a concrete reservoir forty ~
~ long, whence II Is drawn through ~ ~
.ches for the irrigation OF thirty "
res OF orange land. In this plant
st year the cost OF power was
2S,1b.
At Corning and orland there are
me twenty-odd electric pumping
'nts' which range In capacity from
e-half horsepower mp to seven and
e-halt horse power and are used ur
various purposes, such as water
stock, lrrlgating nrcboras -. I'M
,'n's' vegetable gardens. lawns. VIC
Tor general household purposes
why electrlcally-drlven pumps are u'' m
more ppncrnllv us,d 4, t..,., stt