Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1911-07-21
some COMPARISONS
THAT SOUND GOOD
L. A. Danse Talks Of the Cal
ifornia Orange Belt and
Demins Country
IS DEMINC BOOSTER
Gives Facts and Figures that
are Advantageous to
Demins Country.

Los Angeles. June II. 1911.
EDITOR GRAPHIC:
The writer has just returned to
the city from an extended trip In
the heart Of this great country's
boosted citrus fruit region with
his thoughts full Of the wonder Of
the change man has wrought In the
face Of nature. II Is within the
memory Of the older residents Of
this district that which lies between
Redlands, Riverside, Los Angeles
and Santa Ana, that the valley
lands. where now the. fertile soil
produces millions in the shape Of
farm and orchard products. were
for the most part raw ill-worked
ranches. or so-called barren brush
land. Barren only in that the soil
lacked the necessary cultivation and
the thing which only the hand Of
man can give to the arid regions
water, without which the greenest
garden soon withers, and having
the waste places bloom. This same
blessing of water Is guarded far
more carefully in this land Of flow
ers than It is or need be In the
Mimbres Valley. Why? Because
there is not the abundance Of it to
be had for the digging and pump
ing of a well that there Is in the
Deming district. For the most
part the water is brought from the
hill in bitches many of them lined
with cement and having locked
gates and weirs to apportion the
flow. Away from the hills, where
ditch water is not to be had, pumps
are in operation, handling various
quantities Of water at different lifts.
One thing which struck the writer
as being very queer is the large
number of duplex and triplex
pIunger pumps handling water at
lifts of from 10 to 40 feet. Such
an outfit, costing more than one Of
the centrifugal type Of twice it's
capacity. will he seen lifting per-
haps 20 inches of water for the gar
den. In the Mimbres Valley we
would not even think of using such
a rig but here they are the rule.
probably on account of their much
vaunted efficiency.
Contrary to the writer's expecta-
tion, pumping plant costs as much
in this region as in the Deming dis
trict- another place the Californian
has nothing over Us. Power to
operate, be 1t electrity, gasoline,
distillate or oil. is no lower. not
withstanding the fact that there
are great oil fields hut a short haul
away. The average price for distil-
late is 8 cents a gallon, kerosene. 2
cents a gallon, electric power 4
cents per kilowatt hour. Reduced
to terms Of water delivered on the
ground in the average hour run for
IRRIGATION, means, 81. 900 gallons for
25c. by distillate; $1,000 gallons
for zoe. by oil and $1,000 gallons
for 60 cents by electric power. This
with a 20 horse plant lifting 1856
gallons 80 feet.
In few communities the people
have organized and erected pump
ing plants which lift the water and
turn It into the bitches for certain
rates, II being measured by the
number of miners inches flowing
and the length Of time II runs
This gives satisfactory service L
the patrons as It is only necessar,
to call up the power house and asl
for SO much power at such q time
Distribution Of the water ovel
the fields Is accomplished by severa
means, the most efficient being b.
the use of cement pipes and spill
pipes: the mains being laid aloni
the highest ridge Of the land an'
then small lateral pipes laid witt
here and there a pipe PROTECTING
say two feet above the surface. i
this projecting standpipe are sever
al small openings. with means ;
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