El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-01-01

-ATTLENEN Of the southwest be-
cause Of the drouth during the
~ past summer and fail are being
forced to spend large SUNS Of money
10 furnish water to their cattle, but
they are accomplishing something
that will enable them to utilize large
areas Of ranges that have heretofore
been useless.
As a result Of the drouth, the grass
on the Iowlands is exhausted and the
cattle have been forced TO the high
mesa country and the mountain dis
tricts to secure food Owing to
boulder. formations. II for no other
reason, It has been impossible TO cnk
wells in the mesa and mountain re-
lions and the result was when the
cattle made their way TO the higher
rround for food there was no water
Pumping solved the question, how
ever. ans big water plants are now
being installed all over the south
west by the big ranch owners The
drouth forced them to it. but they ad-
nit that il is g good thing, since they
viii hereafter be able 10 utilize these
high ranges as well as the low ones.
In seasonabIe years they viii be able
20 pasture many more c2ttls than IN
years past.
julius Krakauer, OF the firm OF
Krakluer, Cork & Aoye with MS
force Of hydraulic and field engineers,
was the man who Offered the first
solution Of the question. When he
heard that Joe Gardner, OF sierra
Blanca, had cattle on the mesa coun-
try and water on the loW country
but no food where there was water
and no water where there was 1000,
he proposed the instalauon OF
water system TO meet the emergency.
Mr.. Gardner installed the first plant
and Ii proved so successful tna-
cattlemen all over the southwest are
now installing them and pralsInG
them
Verit-bIe WaterwOrks Systems.
The installation of these systems IS &
no small task, inasmuch as the lnes
re often many miles long TIE
shortest one installed so far nesr Il
Paso is three miles long-the longest
is seven with two pumps 10 DO tie
lifting. After the water IS lifted 20 /
he high ground by pump Il is th1
Diped wherever needed by gravity ard .
can be carried over q very wide ara. F
The tripleE pump is used Eng
neers are sent 70 the fled Tor sur
i =
distance the water is 10 be carris1, /.
he height il is to be raised etc. thin .
The equipment is figured out and IL ]
stalled In some cases one OF the big .
pumps is sufficient TO lift the water
q he entire distance, but IN other cases .
% requires two or even three 10 70 4
che work Not over two have been in /
stalled as yet, however, and these two I
jumps carry the water a distance OF
seven miles into the mountains from
low land
Plants Recently Installed
Hal Kerr. near Deming, has had one
~ these pumping systems installed 4
his year and so has the COrralit0s
attic company west Of las Cruces T
The Ky ranch, also near Cambray. is
now having one OF them Installed
II. p. Roberts at Van Horn, and ~
u. casey Of TOyah. are other cat /
-iemen who are Installing pumping
terWorlzs they might be .
called. for the plants in most cases I
are IS large as those necessary 70 .
supply q small town The casey
7lcnt is now being put in It is The .
largest yet inst- He'd by the FL Paso .
firm and is the plant with seven niles f
Of pipe lire am two pump st7uOnE
T~kirg Water To Cattle.
we figured IL out said Mr. Era- .
kauer. when asked about the pan, 3