. Review of reviews and world's work . FIELD SCENE IN COLORADOan average rainfall of four inches done by those who have gone to the newterritory. Hundreds of farms are showingprogress and their owners are happy and pros-perous with a fair promise for their future. LOOKING TO IRRIGATION Underneath all the Southwest is an inex-haustible supply of water. Down near theGulf it is only a few feet from the north it requires a well from eighty to one hundred feet deep to reach it. Hereand there it crops out in artesian flow, butfor the most part it must be lifted to thesurface. This th
. Review of reviews and world's work . FIELD SCENE IN COLORADOan average rainfall of four inches done by those who have gone to the newterritory. Hundreds of farms are showingprogress and their owners are happy and pros-perous with a fair promise for their future. LOOKING TO IRRIGATION Underneath all the Southwest is an inex-haustible supply of water. Down near theGulf it is only a few feet from the north it requires a well from eighty to one hundred feet deep to reach it. Hereand there it crops out in artesian flow, butfor the most part it must be lifted to thesurface. This the settlers are doing and theyfind it a hopeful outlook. The windmill, even in a land of almostconstant breezes, is too slow for the modernirrigator. He instals the ever-ready gasolineengine in a little power house and sets it towork on its twenty-four-a-day mission. Awell and engine in the mid-plains region can. IRRIGATION DITCH ON THE McDONALD FARMS, HEREFORD, TEXAS(This ditch is from a well 213 feet deep, on a farm in the Panhandle of Texas. The well has a flow of 1175 gallon-per minute and the water is pumped with a 40-horse power engine, using distillate as fuel, at a total cost of three and one-half c^ts per gallon, the fuel consumption being 5 gallons per hour, the water costing 96 cents per acre foot. There is alift of fifty feet. The water is being used on 160 acres, fifty acres of which is in sugar beets, that were in fine stand whenseen some weeks ago. Another well on the adjoining quarter section is serving a similar purpose. It is estimated thatenough water can be developed by pumping in the Panhandle to irrigate half a million acres) 586 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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