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" The application of electrical power would reduce the 

 cost from the figures herein given. To the estimates relating 

 to the canal system must be added the cost of maintenance, 

 the waste of water by absorption and evaporation, and the very 

 unsatisfactory method of applying the water by gravity. 



" It is within reasonable probability that from sixty to 

 seventy-five per cent of the orchards and vineyards of the 

 State could be laid subject to irrigation by pumping at a cost 

 not exceeding that given in this statement. 



"This by no means exhausts the subject. All over the 

 State wells of sufficient capacity to supply a three-inch pump 

 on small areas of ten or fifteen acres, using a five horse-power 

 engine, are to be found. There is scarcely a land-holding 

 where an equipment of this kind costing less than $1,000 

 cannot be made available. The application of this cheaper 

 and less ambitious equipment would greatly diversify the 

 agricultural pursuits of the State ; would enable cultivators 

 of the soil to beautify their holdings and furnish the full round 

 of home necessities." 



