Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-13
pNEAL BASIN HAS WON BIG SUCCESS IN
 AGRICULTURAL LINE
MoNeal Basin has won out.

MCNeal Basin has won out. i The farmers are making successes
 The pumping plant has made it pos sible to reclaim the large area of fer. tile soil in the big broad valley lying to the north of Douglas
 McNeal, a new town, is about in the center of this fertile division of the Sulphur Springs valley. Being 20 miles north of Douglas and 23 miles northeast of Bisbee. there is not the least danger to the crops from the smoke from the copper smelters.
 Has Market At Door.
 Although a railroad runs through Mo Neal and the full length of the Sul- phur Spring valley, most of the farm CTS now have autos and motor trucks and haul their produce to Bisbee and Douglas fresh every morning. These towns will consume all that this valley can raise for many years to come.
 The land about McNeal is a deep sandy loan and much of the area has shallow water of POI to 50 feet in depth.
 Rains.
 As one truck gardener expressed it this McNeal basin is an ideal place for farming of all kinds, because the rains which amount to about F inches per year, fall mostly in the growing months of July and August and Sep tember, and fill the air with a moisture that is quite necessary to growing good produce. Then, if more water is needed. the pumping plant can be re sorted to. This same gardener had farmed for many years in Texas and other places, but is better pleased with his forty acre farm in this valley than any place he has ever been.
 The Pumping Plant.
 The pumping plant most commonly used here is a common centrifugal pump about 3ia inches in diameter and 15 horse power gas engine. which burns cheap fuel. known as tops, WHICH lS SOlu at nlSANSoi. AhS "o'~' is lifted 8 to 50 feet from dug well and a flow of 400 gallons per minute is about all that one man can handle. Larger wells are being installed that furnish as much as 800 gallons per minute.
 It costs about one thousand dollars to install good well and pumping plant such as used in this valley. There are now about IS pumping plants in successful operation within a radius of ten miles of McNeal. An average of about 25 acres is in cultiva- ton under each plant, making a total of 1.2OO acres under cultivation. The gross value of the crops raised from these As farms this season is about S2.- GOO for each plant, or total of ss6,Oo0 which is enough to pay the original cost of the pumping plant and land under cultivation.
 More Farmers Needed.
 These 4S farmers with their s96,00O worth of produce each year can't be gin to supply the demands of Bisbee and Douglas where nearly half a mil lion dollars worth of produce is ship ped in each season Five times the present number of producers with pumping plants can be in operation be- fore the local market can be supplied. As the truck garden field is filled the farmers will gradually drift into dairy ing stock aud stock raising. which can be carried on more successfully with the cheaper and improved methods of irrigation. which is rapidly being de- veloped.
 Many farmers are already engage1 in dairying and great deal of butter and cheese are made on the farm.
 There has been much talk of build ing a creamery at McNeal and one will probably be established during the coming season.
 The principal money crops from the irrigated farms are sweet potatoes. beans. corn. tomatoes. melons, cab bage and all kinds Of vegetables and grains.
 In places where food waters can be had many crops of beans. corn and .grains are m fiued The rainialls