Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ly plain to the writer. They cannot here be fullyexpounded. They have been referred to in other articles published bythe State Board in several reports. We note one important fact. Notwithstanding the occasional failureof a well, the existence of a large body of water under each plateau isundoubted. Of the vast number of wells on the prairies, there are veryfew that under the heaviest strain show signs of exhaustion. Some rail-way wells are unexhaust
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ly plain to the writer. They cannot here be fullyexpounded. They have been referred to in other articles published bythe State Board in several reports. We note one important fact. Notwithstanding the occasional failureof a well, the existence of a large body of water under each plateau isundoubted. Of the vast number of wells on the prairies, there are veryfew that under the heaviest strain show signs of exhaustion. Some rail-way wells are unexhausted by horse or steam pumps. Is, then, thiswater sufficient to be used for irrigation ? We believe it is. Let it beunderstood that a man and his family can not farm 160 acres under irri-gation. And also let it be understood, that if he can irrigate five acreshe can live, and if he can irrigate twenty acres he can grow rich. If,then, water to irrigate five acres and upwards on every quarter-sectioncan be obtained on the quarter-section, the farmer can live through thedriest years, and in wet years the rest of his farm will produce, as we 137. IRRIGATION LAKE. GREAT BEND, KAN.
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