The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-10
A.IS!.iPHIS PUMPS
n NJ IRE TO RECLAIM
|5ER MEXICAN DESERT
Gal Firm Asked to Supply
Machinery for $4,000 900
Irrigation ProjeCt-PeaCe
assured, Asserts Engineer.

COMP order for $1,000. 900 worth Of irri-
Einst ot1n pumps and equipment for the
He ref5uation Of several tracts of arid
t d pain Old Mexico aggregating 1,0O0,-
res, has been submitted to Layne
L. Is no fler company, Of Memphis, manu-
h he wars of pumping equipment for ir-
lie not stfn work and municipal water
there viIsystems.
ttions- AZ will be the biggest reclamation
n tire thrr ever attempted in Mexico, as
one of the biggest orders that
his manufacturer has ever been
9F0 pom to estimate.
Childress, an American engineer,
Tor or 10 years has been engaged In
y court fering work in Mexico, is in Mem
F1tz n consultation with engineers for
|pgsAnleE tayne q Bowler company about
associa Afor the project and about equip
|rly two required.
tiles OF years ago Mr. Childress COM
Twice it b irrigation systems for several
public al of land of from 100 to 300 acres
70 esfa' that transformed barren wastes
|n keca{eritable garden spots. Layne y
change. RS pumps were used in some OF
spent rigation work and proved so sue
| the il 4 that Mr.. Childress says that no
lent, at type of equipment is being con-
Ike a m in the contemplated work.
me 'GasS land to be reclaimed is IN the
restsBh of Coahuila, in Northeast Mexico
court bundant supply of water suitable
lad ma'Tigation underlies the tracts to be
and med, at a depth of from 100 TO
CONNER feet Mr.. Childress says Wells
IN until be drilled to tap this supply and
ses, he rged centrifugal pumps will be
b, ed, capable of delivering 100000
q hos per day from each well, OF
vi n n to irrigate 100 acres of land.
Eetu h n irrigated, Mexican land is the
oe rolific in the world, Mr.. Chill
uip tor intends.
Thu'd" Restored.
or s@H o's internal disorders are prac-
Tt a., at an end, according to Mr.
ent -, IS. Law and order is rapidly be-
Mer ssoo,i .ored and the country is becom-
whi' IN poleed, so that life and prop
reo' NV almost as safe there as any
y There is no organized revolu-
~, in Coahuila, and the only
ions 10 be feared are from wan
yea tht ands of bandits, and these are
n 1oott ( rare as the government au-
no excf lecomes more firmly established
Tduts ut the state
red by t of outlawry that reach the
10 tnat states are greatly exaggerated
tdVantag, o NOT had the slightest troubl,
,sutner. 90. and | feel as safe there a;
lscuSslol the United States" he says
,FllzhuF Iand order will be fully restored
Ft %he tuila before the end of the year
az lette 5nderful development of the
ne statl win have set in. MeXico's cur.
ring on fstem is on a firm basis. Cole
nave Ser coin is used exclusively. NJ
n y, me oney at all is used in thu
~, 9r on of business.
'spohd .al resources of Mexico are thu
a part In the world It's land, wher
I bGeb the cultivated will grow anything
any men ave hardly been scratched
~ or ~ great tracts Of fine timber
ea1hy m the ak has never touched
lner trad iexico is like great bar o
YES, mad it needs is the stamp o
plan TO 'rnment to make it money"
fraud ldress expects to get tn
on tne II project started this sum
mo JolnJA = work vii, progress iron
% tract until the entire acreag
ernlll-,sated and under cultivation, 3,
1t tir other projects will probabl,
BE- UNI o.. way, he says.
The lea that American interests il
Mexico seek American intervention i
"a mistake according to Mr.. Childress
IA laws of Mexico. give ample pro
wv to property rights, he says, an
authority of the government
go and law and order established
Try offers one of the creates
cor,rs ties for business enterprise
MT could ask
La e. Bowler company's factory a
i.. y. avenue and May street is op
!nnaSrs factories at Houston, Tex, an
!teh Francisco, Cal. Their equip
is used largely in the rice field
Iatrkansas, Louisiana and Texas, a
~ as in the municipal water system
ANY cities, as at Houston, Mont
!, sry Ala, Ell Paso and other cities
w, as far north as Canada.