Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-05-30
1850 GALLONS Of
WATER PER MINUTE
BROKE DITCHES AND BORDERS
Other Pumping Plants Recently In
stalled Show Development is
Going on Rapidly

Think of 1850 gallons of water a
minute flowing from well oniy
eighty-one feet deep. A measure
ment of the discharge of the E. l..
Cummings well not far from the John
Hund place shows this remarkable
development. The entire 100 acres
Is being seeded to alfalfa and when
the well was pumped it was found
impossible to hold the water in the
ordinary sized bitches and borders.
much to the CONSERVATION of the la
borers. Henry McRoberts, who
drilled the well, had contract to put
1t down $50 feet. AT thirty eight feet
water bearing stratum of gravel
was encountered and only pierced at
sixty-seven feet. Fnom seventy
three feet to the total depth another
stratum was encountered which de.
veloped so strong n flow that it was
never drilled through. The casing is
down to sixty-seven feet. The great
amount of water is supposed to have
been encountered because Of the
meeting or intersecting Of the three
upper strata of water bearing sand
and gravel. Wells near this one have
not yielded nearly so large quanti-
ties.
THE PUMPING PLANT
The pumping plant consists of a
24-inch American Turbine pump
driven by a thirty-five horsepower
General Electric motor, which seems
to raise the great weight Of water
with ease.
Mrs. E. L. Cummings, owner of the
land, lives in Boston, and John Kelly
is the manager of the farm, which
will be strictly an alfalfa PROPOSE.
ton. The flow of water obtained
from the one well will be more than
sufficient to care for the entire acre
age, though alfalfa takes more wa
ter than any other crop raised in
large quantities in the valley.
OTHER DEVELOPMENT
The DAVIS, Coppinger and Casey
well, located four miles west of Hon.
dale, was recently equipped with a
thirty horsepower Rumely engine and
ls-inch American Turbine pump and
developed $50 gallons of water a
Minute. This well is located in 4
heretofore unexpected section of the
valley and where some doubt as to
the abundance of the underflow ex.
listed. The well is a relief TO those
who cast their lot in that section and
expended their funds in its develop.
ment. The we'll is l27 feet deep and
forty-five feet to first water.
BORDMAN WELL
The Bordman well, six miles north.
west OF the city, has not been tested,
but gives every evidence of sufficient
water. 1t too has been sunk where
a reasonable doubt of the existence
of sufficient water has been held. The
equipment consists of No. 4 Amer.
lean Centrifugal pump and thirty
horsepower Rumely engine. The well
is 124 feet deep and ninety-seven
feet to water.
HOLT WELL
The ". E. Holt well, one mile
southeast of the city, has been
equipped with twenty horsepower
Rumely engine and No. 4 American
Centrifugal pump. 1t has developed
$50 gallons Of water q minute. First
water was encountered at forty-nine
feet and the well drilled to III feet
RAlTHEL WELL
The Chris Raithel we'll has devel.
oped a flow Of 500 gallons a minute.
1t is located six miles east of the
city. The total depth is 100 feet.
Water was found at twenty-seven
feet. The plant consists Of an ls-
inch American Turbine pump and
thirty-two horsepower Fairbanks