Arizona republican., 1914-03-05

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Facts and Figures of Sue cess of Pumping Scheme of Farmer Outside Pro- ject Yet Close to Centers of Population

Out on the northeast quarter of Sec tion ,, ToWnshipu l south, Range east, six miles southeast of Mesa lies the land that is being irrigated, or is soon to be irrigated, irrespective of flood waters, government projects. canal systems or any other feature that enters in to tine general scheme of things for the average land owner of the valley. The story of the sue cess of Pernel Barnett is interesting from the fact that it is typicalsand it is representative and then besides it is the account that every man would like to write as his own autobiography, who travels across the desert waste and realizes that the land is valuable if the life giving waters were just brought to the surface and allowed to flow out upon the land
 Pernal Barnett, is a young man from California. He has lived where they pumped water 300 feet and was not afraid to tackle a lift of half that | depth. He went on the land drilled a 1 well, put in a pump with cylinder II | inches in diameter by 100 inches long 1 He has twenty-five horse power en- ! zine and uses what he terms tops for fuel, which costs five cents per gal l lon. His well is 225 feet deep and he has a lift of 120 feet. His pump has a 1 natural capacity of 800 gallons per minute. but he is going to make it 1 flow $50 for the reason that his well will stand it. his pump will stand it and his engine will stand it and he believes that it will be more econCmi- cal. He has pumped steadily for twelve hours at the 500 gallons per minute gait and his draw-down is never more than 10 feet. In fact his i draW-dow is always ten feet whether he operates one minute or d day. The l temperature of the water as it flows out the mouth of the well is between S4 and S6 degrees It is that feature
 of S6 degrees farenheit wherein MT Barnett thinks he sees success, for eventually he is going to have an ex- lclusive fruit farm. He believes that a tsream of six or seven hun
 dred gallons per minute of warm water running out over the soil will do a great deal towards lifting the
 settling frost The well, siXteer
 inch hole, with pump, engine. too
 house and shed with tools cost S4500
 Mir Barnett has twenty acres Oi
 grain, five acres of fruit, has tho
 ground ready for cotton and by July
 1st expects to have so acres under irri gation The plant has been worked tC
 full capacity for several days consecu
 lively and has never given the leas
 trouble.
 However. the real feature of MT
 Barnetts plant is the comparative cos of his water as compared with tn, : water secured under the project. H
 has made tentative arrangements |, sell a fifty-inch head to landowner below his pump for sixty cents pc hour. He believes that he can irrigate with g reasonable amount of deprecia tiCn. at the rate of acre feet for $4 : He further estimates that he can irri l gate his entire tract of 160 acres b running his plant between one-fourt and one-fifth of the time. The las 5 figures of course are mere estimates
 MT. Barnett is very enthusiastic an
 is convinced that the advantages fo
 pumping and the growing of fruits ar
 very much greater southeast of Mes than at any place in California. No
 only does he place much stress upon tn
 fact of the warmth of the water as a
 asset during frosty weather, but h z likes the idea of being able to turn O
 a head of water at any time that h feels that he is in need of it.