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Kingsbury Sanborn, one of the
most prominent irrigation engineers
of California, and well recognized
authority on underground waters
and pumping water for irrigation,
has been in Deming for the past
week Investigating possibilities for
irrigation and agricultural develop.
mcnt in the Mimbres Valley for the
purpose of reporting to a group Of
California capitalists who are con-
templaiing investments here. Mr.
Sanborn is consulting engineer for
the Riverside Water Co., Riverside,
California, for the Citizens Water
Co.. San .Iacinto, California, and
for various other similar concerns
in California Arizona and New
Mexico. He has made irrigation
engineering business for the last
twenty-five years and devised the
system for restoring the arteslan
flow in the San Brrnardno basin in
California He came here last
week from Roswell, where he had
been employed by the Pccos Valley
Investment Co. in laying out their
water distribution system on its
tract near Roswell.
Asked concerning his impressions
of the valley, Mr.. Sanborn express
ed himself AS follows: Il think
NcminE has the most elegant body
of irrigablc land surrounding it
that | have ever run across in my
long experience in irrigated Soc
tiunS have actually been unable
to find in this great extent of val
Icy any poor land. 1t is uniformly
level, rich, easy of cultivation, and
is, generally, the finest body of land
that have ever seen. The water
conditions here are superb, the
railroad facilities are better than in
many cities larger than Dcmng.
From study of all the conditions
hearing upon the situation, con-
lidcntly predict that within five
years there will be an increase in
the acreage of the cultivated area in
the vicinity of Dcming of at least
fifty thousand acres. What this
will mean to the growth of the
town is obvious. | have Travelled
up and down the states of Califor-
MIA and Arizona for the last twenty
five years, it has been my business
To note development and factors
that make for development, and
say without reservation, that ! am
thoroly pleased with every phase OF
the situation here.
Asked concerning the lift at
which water can be pumped profit
ably, Mr.. Sanborn said
In California We are pumping
water for oranges anywhere from
100 to $50 feet with profit. The
higher the orange groves are locat'
cd above the valleys, the frecr they
are from frost and the surcr they
are of yearly yields. For alfalfa
at IS and ~ per ton, we easily
pump water with profit at l25 feet
Your water lift in this valley is uni
formly low, and hence, greater
profit is assured" "
Asked concerning the head nee
cSSary for successful irrigation
upon soil such as that of the Min
brcs Valley, Mr.. Sanborn STATED
that 1000 gallons per minute II
ample for such crops as as alfalfa
A head of four hundred gallons pei
minute he considers sufficient fol
the successful irrigation of orchards
here.
Mr.. Sanborn is enthusiastic fol
the pumping system as against any
other system of irrigation. Ia
says: with the pumping system
there are no bitches to be kept II
repair. no floods to be contendet
with, no foreign seeds to be depos
tied on the fields, no waiting you
turn for water in times of shortage
in short. the underground water, o
underhow, is the greatest and mos
perfect supply of water for lrrlga
ton purposes in the world. Yo'