Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1919-09-23
RESERVE SUPPLY
OF WATER HERE
One OF Three Units Pumping Six
Hours Supplies Deming During
the Summer Season
WATER COMPANY USES AIR LIFT
same System. Says Foreman at Water
Plant. Could be Probably Used
In Irrigation Pumping

The United Land and Wafer Gamma.
n.y. which supplies Deming with water.
probaDiy holds more water supply In
reserve than any water works concern
IN all the southwest. II pumps 1000
gallons II minute for six hours operat
ing one OF three wells and this carries
me peak load for the summer months
rms one well. pumped greater mum
Der OF hours, supplied the city aud
camp Cody last year. Besides this
wen, the company has two more. one
producing 300 gallons a minute and the
other 500 gallons n minute The two
larger wells are pumped by mir lift
equipment and the other by turbine
This, with the booster station. glves
Deming the excellent water supply
'hHt IL enjoys even during emergencies
such as large fires.
| The wells are all more than 800 feet
deep ana II Is the opinion OF Tom Nc
carty, foreman of the plant, that the
water Is better quality at Tint depth.
az least the holes penetrate lower
strata than was ever pumped from be-
Tore this time. The air lift pump. as
matter Of fact, require so much sub
nergence that IL was found necessary
TO sink the wells beyond the polnt
where enough water could be obtained
The air must be forced under the
water 10 raise Il and greater depth
than for centrifugal pumping Is a
necessity
The air lift installation Is wonder
fully simple In the well there Is only
two plain pipes and the casing: one
pipe carries the mir down and the other
discharges the water. IL Is an eunip-
lnent that needs little care and upkeep
The air compressor Is also simple
mechanism The one installed nj thc
water plant has had no repair In more
than years run. IL Is driven bv an
electric motor. The Graphic represen-
tatlve was interested 10 know how the
air lift equipment would do for pump-
ing Tor irrigation. Mr.. McCarty Is of
the opinion that over period of
years the air lift Is much the cheaDer
aud more satisfactory. He says thar
the centrifugal pump Is almost twice
as efficient when first Installed. hut
that, due TO conditions Of operation. II
loses this efficiency very rapidly and
requires constant attention and re-
pair and In comparatively short
''sHN NV kluliA uluNl ItDllfINl. u.
Not so with the air lift. which has n
low efficiency. hut will maintain II
with little attention and repairs for
Fifteen or twenty years. What i'm
pressed the Graphic representative
was the simplicity OF. equipment and
the fact that most any kind of n
rookie that had sense enough To keep
the crank case In oil could run 1t. The
air compressor, Is entirely closed from
sand and dirt. Mr.. McCarty showed
another point in favor of the air lift
by exhibiting an old casing that had
been down well equipped with a cen
trifugal pump for five years: abso-
lutely every perforation was filled
with find hard sand and over this had
formed a rust blister that made the
casing.solid as though had never been
perforated. The air lift idea is 10 rc.
verse the action by sealing the we'll
, and blowing out the material thar
slowly collects about casing and nj.
timately impedes the flow of the
water. In this way well cannot de.
teriorate as ii grows old in fact il
grows better all the time by the dis
, charge of the fine particles OF sand
, that will in time, together with vibra
tion, destroy the efficiency Of the
plant,