1908 



RECLAMATION SERVICE 



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will yield 6,580 gallons per minute 

 under a 15-foot head. Each pump- 

 ing station is connected by suction 

 pipes to a No. 9 vertical centrifugal 

 pump, driven by a 23-horse power 

 vertical motor. The 23 stations will 

 be operated from a central power 

 plant, run by electricity generated by 

 steam power. 



During the irrigation season this 

 leviathan pumping system will lift 

 30,000 acre-feet, or 10,775,000,000 

 gallons. 



The work of the Government has 

 already given a decided impetus to 

 private enterprise in that section, and 

 if successful will greatly stimulate 

 the development of similar projects in 

 other valleys of the Great Plains 

 where conditions are similar to those 

 of the valley of the Arkansas._ 



There has been an increase in land 

 values since the initiation of the work, 

 and Easterners who have not dis- 

 posed of their holdings may yet ob- 

 tain a fair return from their invest- 

 ments. 



Carson Sink In the Carson Sink, in 

 Needs Water Nevada, is another 

 And Has It country where an arti- 

 ficial water supply is necessary for ag- 

 riculture. There also the Federal 

 Government has brought the water to 

 the land. This is the project which, 

 as noted in our last issue, has just 

 reached completion. 



The climate of the Carson Sink Val- 

 ley is dry; it is perhaps one of the 

 driest places in the United States. 

 The rainfall varies from two to four 

 inches a year, and on the average is 

 perhaps nearer two than four. There 

 is practically no rainy season, though 

 the greater part of the rain comes 

 during the winter and spring months. 

 Occasionally snow storms occur dur- 

 ing the winter, but there is seldom 

 more than an inch or two of snow at 

 a time, and this does not remain on 

 the ground more than two days in 

 succession. 



The summers are hot 



?e?PUas"a«' and dry^ The thermom- 



eter seldom goes above 



100 degrees, yet it has been known 

 to register 105. Even with the ther- 

 mometer at 105, the heat is not op- 

 pressive, as the extreme dryness of 

 the atmosphere ■ makes the sensible 

 temperature closer to 70 degrees. A 

 temperature of 105 in Fallon feels 

 cooler than 90 in St. Louis, Chicago 

 or New York. 



During the winter the thermometer 

 occasionally drops to zero or a few 

 degrees lower, but as a rule the win- 

 ter days are cloudless and the temper- 

 ature is so high that a person can 

 drive around without needing an over- 

 coat. There are almost no days that 

 are cold, raw and unpleasant. _ The 

 sun shines practically every day in the 

 year, and probably three hundred 

 days are cloudless. This abundance 

 of sunshine makes plant growth rapid 

 and healthful, and produces a cheer- 

 ful frame of mind in the farmer. 



The valley is singularly free from 

 severe storms. There are almost no 

 thunder storms, cyclones are un- 

 known, and the winds which do occur 

 are infrequent and not severe. There 

 are no earthquakes. 



Alfalfa 

 Grows in 

 Winter 



This regularity of the 

 climate is one of its 

 most agreeable charac- 

 teristics. Untimely frosts are rare. 

 Between May loth and October ist 

 there is seldom a frost, and after 

 May ist all tender garden vegetables 

 are safe. On March ist the weather 

 grows sufficiently warm to start alf- 

 alfa, and by May ist the alfalfa is a 

 foot or eighteen inches high. The 

 growth will continue until the ist of 

 November, and during many winters 

 the alfalfa is never entirely checked 

 in growth. 



The climate of the valley is very 

 healthful. It is essentially an outdoor 

 climate, mild in its extremes, favor- 

 able to persons with a tendency to- 

 ward lung diseases, and in all of its 

 characteristics one of the most de- 

 sirable climates of the West. 



