The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-15

Tracy, IN the san Joaquin county,
where two projects are now going in.
One system covers 10000 acres and a
second one covers $4,000 acres, and /
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
ing pumping plants on their land and
/ will try and meet this inquiry by
had talk with a railroad official re-
siding in Nevada and learned that he
is now engaged in a campaign 70 in
stall number of pumping plans
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 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
it answers fully almost every question
that may be asked by any farmer, such
as cost of pumping water on 10, 20. so
or 160 acres and expense os lifting
/ water 10, 80, rs or 200 feet; horse
power of engine or motor required TO
irrigate 10 to $50 acres, and answers
one one hundred other questions that
| may puzzle the man who may desire
| to install plant to pump water for
irrigation purposes; and as ! cannot
answer technical questions in n letter
of this kind, would suggest that any
party who may be desirous of install
| ing a pumping system, should write
| the above firm and they will no doubt
mail them in return a copy OF the
booklet named above.
l have examined water conditions in
/ many parts of Nevada and find that
the water stands in different distri It's
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 that
| the future of his State is irrigation
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 al
800 per acre, it adds s100,000.000 &C
the assessed value of land in your
State and it will rank as one of the
greatest agricultural dominions in the
West. Men who live there are not
quick to see its vast resources, but tC
a man who has been over all the arid
Western states and examined over 6S(
irrigation projects, the large anC
small ones, he can easily see tha1
these lands stand untouched in theil
agricultural power with hundreds o.
thousands of acres of rich land that Il
this day lay naked to the stars.
|, In the past ten years. l have spoker
before many audiences in differen
states about the wealth of your non
, irrigated lands and several Governor
in 1915 furnished me with data to ai'
| in awakening interest in Nevada-tha
: it's slumbering wealth be opened t.
i the world.
/ Our Government at Washington i
now asking for crops and cultivate'
| land that food may be conserved an
, sent across the sea to sustain on
: army and our Allies and, can we fin
! better time than now to commenc
{ irrigation in Nevada. Our helpful Gov
! ernment will aid you and so far as tn
a land owner is concerned. it will lif
+ him from want to plenty as it has
4 million farmers over the West.
/, Just as soon as the war is ovel
!, unite your forces and fight for ten mil
S lion dollars that is due to your com
o monwealth from the United State
= reclamation service. You will find tn
r last named people one of the wonder
d OF the age. Think of spending as the
t have done $175.0OO,000 and neve
t wasted a five-cent piece and not eve
d a taint of scandal ever stained the
d good name. Their dams, canals, tuI