. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . d 680 acres in 1902. Viterbo Brothers system.—This system is 12 or 14 miles southwestof Beaumont. One Menge pump, costing $500 and having a capacityof 25,000gallons a minute against a lift of 7 feet, is used. Two boil-ers, each of 50 horsepower, furnish the steam to a 75-horsepowerengine. The canal is 40 feet wide ami 2-j miles in length. A reser-voir, covering an area of 225 acres and having a depth of 6 feet, holdsthe storage water. There are 1,000 acresleveed in, but not all of thisis planted in rice. The yield on
. Water Supply and Irrigation Papers of the United States Geological Survey . d 680 acres in 1902. Viterbo Brothers system.—This system is 12 or 14 miles southwestof Beaumont. One Menge pump, costing $500 and having a capacityof 25,000gallons a minute against a lift of 7 feet, is used. Two boil-ers, each of 50 horsepower, furnish the steam to a 75-horsepowerengine. The canal is 40 feet wide ami 2-j miles in length. A reser-voir, covering an area of 225 acres and having a depth of 6 feet, holdsthe storage water. There are 1,000 acresleveed in, but not all of thisis planted in rice. The yield on this land lias been from 7 to L8 sacksto the acre. Six hundred acres were sown in 1899, 600 acres in 1900,700 acres in 1901, and 950 acres in 1902. 94 IRRIGATION SYSTEMS OF TEXAS. PINE ISLAND BAYOU. [NO. 71. Beaumont Irrigation Company system.—This company has beenoperating the largest rice plantation in Texas. It is in the northernpart of Jefferson County, lying along the south side of the Pine IslandBayou. There are two lifts. The first one is at the crossing of the. Fig. 23.—Elevation and section of flume of Beaumont Irrigation Company. Southern Pacific Railroad, and raises the water from Pine IslandBayou. Until 1890 there were at this lift two Connersville compoundblower pumps, each having a capacity of 25,000 gallons a minute. Toeach of these pumps was attached one Hamilton-Corliss engine of 250 Ihorsepower, steam being supplied by 300-horsepower boilers. In 1900 . taylor.] BEAUMONT SECTION. 95 another pump of the same capacity was installed, with a correspond-ing engine and boiler. The pumps work againsl a Lift of 31 feet, andhave always given satisfaction. They are L5 feet above fche water in the bayou, and force the water L6 feet into the flume. W I is used altogether for fuel. The flume, shown in elevationand section in , is 1 feet deep, 21 feet wide, 1,500 feel Long, and has a total fall ofonly 4 inches. The box part is constructed of 1-inch by L2-inch pl
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