Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-04
PUMP IRRIGATION
 FOR WESTERN LANDS.

~-AANeA"9 NoNAS AeNN D1'-A a tANiiAhNA of demonstrations to prove that pump irrigation can be made successful in the profitable cultivation of the soil in tlse valleys Of Arizona where there is no water to be diverted from rivers 0n the land which is desired .o be made productive. When it is known that in the Salt River valley where the lands are watered from the reservoir at Roosevelt the land is pledged to tho government for more than S50 per acre and must pay that amount in returning to the government the money eSt pended in the perfection of the Roose welt system. then the feasibility of providing irrigating water by pumping docs not seem at all impossible, be cause of it's cost. Take the Sulphur Springs valley in Cochise county, for example. Here may be found land as fertle as that of the Salt River country and surrounded by nearer and better markets for any kind of farm nroducts. On homestead Of one hun Gred and sixty acres one may expend eight thousand dollars for pumping plants and then the investment will auomnt to TO more than it has cost inc lard under the Roosevelt dam for water rights: It will cost more to pump water than it costs the Salt River land owners to keep gp ther system If bitches during a year it is is true bu. the original cost need not be nearly so much in the vicinity oi Wilcox there are pumping plants in operation today that deliver more than me thousand gallons of water per minute and this insures good crops at handsome profits. A pumping plant DeaC not be in action except at such times as moisture is needed during the growing season. Unusual rains during crop growing season are all to the good for the pumping plant It has taen demonstrated that water may be lifted sixty feet at a cost which will insure profitable farming and it has also been demonstrated that in many o, .bo eami-arid valleys of the south, west much area of rich land can be forud where unlimited quantities oi water is available within fifty feet oi tho surface. Every acre of such land will be cultivated sooner or later What has been done in the vicinity oI Domine. New Mexico, by pump irri ration. is told in the following iron the Fl Paso Herald:
 -Pump irrigation is not an eXperi mental proposition any more in th' Great Southwest. It is a success an es tsbHsbed institution, and many of th' older communities and their riye' ditcbes cannot make showing tha eou,Is that of the pumping proposition pening is an example of the succesi ,ba, pumping has brought to the irT gstor Derning's only irrigation meth od is lifting the water from heneatl +be surface by means Of pumps an' Demipe has made such a success ot th pronositlon that land which the gov arpment gave away few months az iz now bringing over 31o0 an acre an is finding ready takers
 aso much success has resulted iroi individual efforts that big companies Ieverbeaded capitalists in the east ar prsparing immense tracts for culti'' ,ion The Spaiding-Fisher company a, example. This company IS putin sO coo acres into cultivation te miles ,nprt4Nest, l.of Deming. In uiegss company prttiig a big ta tra'
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 into cultivation aboet 15 miles essV peming IS another example. other con uaaies are operating on St'AiN scale nearer Demins, but all Of thel are busy and it will not be long b