. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Alias-Corliss engine of 2oo horsepower operates a 24-inch VanWie pump estimated to have a capacity of 30,000 gallons a minuteunder the lift of 5 feet. The soil is black. The farm lies on eachside of the Pane Pelt Railroad. The water is carried under the tractby a terra cotta and 1 imber invert. The plant, exclusive of land, cost$125,000. Six thousand live hundred acres were irrigated in is intended to increase this in 1902 to 15,000 acres. This company 120 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OT TEXAS. |NO. 71. offers the most
. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . Alias-Corliss engine of 2oo horsepower operates a 24-inch VanWie pump estimated to have a capacity of 30,000 gallons a minuteunder the lift of 5 feet. The soil is black. The farm lies on eachside of the Pane Pelt Railroad. The water is carried under the tractby a terra cotta and 1 imber invert. The plant, exclusive of land, cost$125,000. Six thousand live hundred acres were irrigated in is intended to increase this in 1902 to 15,000 acres. This company 120 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OT TEXAS. |NO. 71. offers the most liberal terms to renters of any irrigation systems exam-ined. It furnishes land, water, and seed for three-sevenths instead ofone-half of the crop, thus giving the renter an advantage of 6 writing the above the third lift has been added and the plantat the second lift has been transferred to the third lift. The capacityof the river plant is now 120,000 minute-gallons, and the plant at thesecond lift consists of one 250-horsepower engine, operating a 45-inch. Fig. 27.—Map showing irrigation systems in Colorado Valley below Wharton. centrifugal pump which has a capacity of 50,000 minute-gallons; atthe third lift, a 200-horsepower Atlas-Corliss engine, operating a 24-Inch Van Wie pump, which, with the lift of 3^ feet, has a capacity of20,000 minute-gallons. In 1002 there were under the first lift 9,500acres, under the second 5,000, and under the third 1,500, making atotal of 11;,(> acres under canal, and 15,000 acres of these were irri-gated during the current season. u. s. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER NO. 71 PL. VIII tl-lA Jl Jr gjgj A. BUILDING LEVEES FOR RICE-FARM CANALS, WITH ENGINE AND GRADINGMACHINE IN MATAGORDA COUNTY.
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