PUMP IRRIGATION ON THE PLAINS. 



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F. W. KICHTER'S PUMPING PLANT, GAKDEN CITY, KANSAS. 

 Tliree ten-inch cylinder pumps toeing operated by one 16-foot Aermotov. Engraving shows frame of foot of tower. 



cost from $500 to $1500 or more, though 

 the average cost is more nearly the lower 

 than the higher figure. 



Then come the compound duplex (or 

 high duty) steam pumping engines of 

 usual water-works type, pumping from 

 reservoirs or rivers. These large steam 

 plants being expensive are not in gen- 

 eral use, parties who could well afford 

 the investment preferring to await the ex- 

 perience of others with similar plants. 



A STEAM PUMPING PLANT. 



Geo. M. Hunger, of Eureka, Greenwood 

 Co., Kansas, has 500 acres of orchard. 

 He built an earth dam behind which he 

 impounds 700 acre feet of water. He 

 proposes to increase the storage capacity 

 to 1600 acre feet. 



He has two boilers, each 35 H P. com- 

 pound duplex pumps, capable of lifting 



four million gallons a day against a lift of 

 49 feet above the pumps. Cost of plant 

 to date something over $15,000. Esti- 

 mated cost of enlarged plant $25,000. He 

 says he prefers not to give publicity to his 

 figures as to gross value of crop, profits 

 from water investment, etc., as "these 

 items vary so widely in practice that it 

 would not do to publish them." However, 

 he said to the State Board of Horticulture, 

 very recently, "The question of whether 

 or not it pays is the vital one to be 

 considered. Should a man obtain by 

 irrigation 100 bushels of corn per acre and 

 get 15 or 20 cents per bushel for it he 

 would not l>e making headway rapidly, but 

 if a man has a bearing orchard that is 

 yielding an occasional crop of from 50 to 

 100 bushels per acre of which one-half to 

 three fourths must be classed as seconds 

 or culls, and if by irrigating that orchard 



STATE PUMPING PLANT AT GOODLAND, KANSAS. 



10 Actu.-il H. P. Gasoline Engine, operating a 5'^-lnch cylinder with 36- inch stroke, in a 6-inch well. 170 feet deep 

 and raising from tlie underflow O.OOU gallons per hour. 



