Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-18

man who will stop off at Tracy and
talk with any of their business men.
One of the difficult matters is to
! answer questions that are asked by
land owners as to, the cost OF install. I
ing pumping plants on their land and |
| will try and meet this inquiry by
stating that: About November Is, ! |
| had talk with railroad official re-
siding in Nevada and learned that he |
Is now engaged in a campaign to in
stall number of pumping plants /
along the line of the Western Pacific |
railroad inside the state last named |
and he stated that he secured some |
copies OF a booklet issued by the Cali. |
fornia Hydraulic Engineering & Sup. |
! ply Company OF San Francisco and
| they were full of information on the
| subject OF irrigation by pumping and
| have taken the trouble to secure one
OF these same booklets and find that
/ ii answers fully almost every question
that may be asked by any farmer, such
as cost of pumping water on 10. 20, so
or l6O acres and expense of lifting
water 10, 80, IS or 200 feet; horse
power of engine or motor required TO
irrigate 10 to $50 acres, and answers
one hundred other question that may
puzzle the man who may desire to
install a plant to pump water for
irrigation purposes; and as | cannot
answer technical questions in letter
of this kind, | would suggest that any
party who may be desirous of install.
ing pumping system, should write
the above firm and they will no doubt
mail them in return a copy of the
booklet named above.
have examined water conditions in
many parts of Nevada and find that
the water stands in different districts
at ten feet down to 125 feet below the
surface which shows that a new EN-
pire can be founded on one million
acres irrigated at these depths.
Let me remind the Nevada man thai
i the future of his state Is irrigation
7 and not mining, the latter being tenn
porary and the former permanent
One million acres of your rich plains
will be irrigated within the next
twenty-five years and with land at
800 per acre. it adds S100,000,000 to
the assessed value of land in your
state and il will rank as one of the
! greatest agricultural dominions in the
Z west. Men who live there are not
. quick to see its vast resources, but TO
Q man who has been over all the arid
(; western states and examined over Csc
a irrigation projects. the large and
d small ones, he can easily see that
o these lands stand untouched in theil
n agricultural power with hundreds o.
l. thousands of acres of rich land that tC
r this day lay naked to the stars.
@ In the past ten years. have spoker
& before many audiences in differen
] states about the wealth OF your non
4 irrigated lands and several governor
e In 1915 furnished me with data TO ali
ir in awakening interest in Nevada-tha
10 its slumbering wealth be opened {
10 the world.
n. Our government at Washington
8. now asking for crops and cultivate
II. land that food may be conserved an
rs sent across the sea to sustain oI
i'd army and our allies and. can we fir
Sc a better time than now to comment
or irrigation in Nevada. Our helpful go
in ernment will aid you and so far as IL
TO land owner Is concerned. II will II
&C. him from want to plenty as IL has
fit million farmers over the west.
Is Just as soon as the war Is owe
IN. unite your forces and fight for ten m
ch lion dollars that is due TO your col
AT monwcalth from the United Stat
nd reclamation service. You will find u
at last named people one OF the wonde
49,. of the age. Think Of spending as tn
nat have done s175,O0O,00O and neY
ing wasted five.cent piece and not eY
get talnt OF scandal ever stained thu
for good name. Their dams, canals, u
nd nels and engineering work Is the b'
The OF It's kind in America.
of In the next two years, why not
ind I've to fifteen hundred pumps start
lty, and get water on the arid lands n
in. try and have the government oGici
d a aid you financially intesting out sol
Of the deep sections which will
f-,-l found in some parts OF the state?
n have the means of knowing that "
governor is friendly toward the cat
Of irrigation and has unbounded ia
IN the future OF the state and VIII
any cause that has for It's object
upbuilding Of Nevada.
Eli
Or. and Mrs. c. J. Hood were