Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-12-22
IRRIGATION IN NEVADA
HOLDS Great PROSPECT
Nevada and California have received Less Money
ton Service Proportion their
State the West Nevada has
Be Irrigated either Gravity Pumping Water
from the
By A. r. KANAGA.

acre for his land of $32,00000 fos lt0
acres and even at present and year
before the project is built. the country
is full of land buyers and these lanIs
are located around Tracy in the San
Joaquin county where two projects
are now going in. One system covers
1900 acres and a second one covers
$4,000 acres and what | say herein can
be confirmed by any 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
ling pumping plants on their land and
| will try and meet this inquiry by
stating that: About November 18th,
| had talk with a Railroad Official
residing in Nevada and learned that
he is now engaged i'll a campaign to
install a 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 booklet issued by the Cal
ifornia Hydraulic Eng. & Supply Co.
of San Francisco and they were full
of information on the subject OF irri-
CATION by pumping and | have taken
the trouble to secure one of these
booklets and find that it ansewrs full
ly almost every question that may be
asked by any farmer, such as the cost
of pumping water on 10. 20, so or lo(
acres and expense of fitting water 10
80, Is or 200 feet. Horsepower OF
engine or motor required to irrigate
10 to $50 acres and answers one hun
dred other questions 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 a letter of this
kind | would suggest that any party
who may be desirous of installing a
pumping system, should write the a
hove firm and they will no doubt
mail them in return 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 10 IT, down TO l25 it. below the
surface which shows that a new em-
pre can be founded on one million
acres irrigated at these depths.
Let me remind the Nevada man
that the future OF his State is irriga-
ton and not miling the latter being
temporary and the former perman-
ent 100000 acres OF your rich
plains will be irrigated within the
next twenty-five years and with the
land at $4,000 per acre, 1t adds
100000. 10000 to the assessed value
Of land in your State and it will rank
as one of the great agricultural dom
inions OF the West Men who live
there are not quick to see its vast re-
sourses but to man who has been
over all the arid Western States and
examined over go irrigation pro-
iects, the large an dthe small ones, he
can easily see that these lands stand
untouched in their agricultural pow
err with hurdrcGs OF thousands OF
acres of rich land that to this day lay
naked to the stars.
In the past ten years, ! have spok-
en- before many audiences in differ
ent States about wealth of your non
irrigated lands and several govern
ors in 1915 furnished me with data
to aid in awakening interest in Ne
vada-that its slumbering wealth be
opened to the world.
Our Government at Washington
is now asking for crops and cultl-
waited land that food may be conserv-
ed and sent across the Sea to- sustain
our Army and Allies and car we find
better time than NOW to corn
mence irrigation in Nevada. Our
helpful government will aid you and
so far as the land owner is concerned
it will lift him from want to plenty