IRRIGATION BY WELLS. 



The Fresno, (Cal.) Republican states in 

 a recent issue that "The Pleasant Valley 

 Stock Farm company has put down eight 

 wells at the mouth of the Posa Chine 

 creek and developed a good flow of water 

 for irrigation and stock purposes. The 

 eight wells afford a flow of twelve miners 

 inches of water, making a stream large 

 enough to irrigate perhaps a half section 

 of land. The water is used to irrigate the 

 company's land which is partially planted 

 to alfalfa. 



The Posa Chine creek is dry for a greater 

 portion of the year, not affording water for 

 irrigation excepting during the rainy sea- 

 son in the winter, There has long been a 

 theory that an underground stream of 

 water could be struck by boring wells, but 

 it remained for the enterprising corpora- 

 tion to develop the flow. Some six years 

 ago an irrigation district was formed at 

 Huron to develop water for irrigation by 

 this means, but dissentions arose and as a 

 consequence it was left to private capital 

 to carry out the project." 



his proposition will entail but very little 

 expense on the part of the government. 

 Laramie (Wyo.) Boomerang. 



ARTESIAN WELLS FOR WYOMING. 



Representative Osborne, of Wyoming, 

 haa introduced a resolution asking for an 

 appropriation of sufficient money to have 

 several artesian wells sunk in different 

 parts of the state which are to be used for 

 irrigation purposes. Such a scheme is 

 heartily endorsed by the Geological Survey 

 and is thought to be inexpensive in com- 

 parison with the benefits to be derived by 

 farmers. Of course, there is no hope of 

 favorable action on such a measure at this 

 time, for Congress is not likely to make 

 any appropriations not absolutely neces- 

 sary, but Mr. Osborne expects to secure 

 an appropriation after the war is over for 



IRRIGATION IN SALINAS VALLEY, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



Work is being rushed night and day 

 upon the pumping plants in this vicinity, 

 and a large acreage will be irrigated this 

 season. Four centrifugal pumps are al- 

 ready in operation, with a combined ca- 

 pacity of 50,000 gallons per minute, and 

 three more will be in operation in the near 

 future, weich will more than double the 

 quantity of water. It is estimated that 

 these seven pumps will irrigate at lest 200 

 acres of land per day of twelve hours. 



The Salinas Valley Water Company has 

 three miles of its Arroyo Seco canal in op- 

 eration, which will also irrigate a small 

 acreage. Salinas Democrat, 



ELWOOD MEAD. 



Elwood Mead, of Cheyenne, state engi- 

 neer of Wyoming, has been appointed by 

 the president to be consulting expert of 

 the department of agriculture in the bu- 

 reau of irrigation investigation about to be 

 established, and for which an appropria- 

 tion has been made by Congress. Prof, 

 Mead is regarded a high authority upuu 

 irrigation matters and his addresses and 

 papers upon the subject have attracted 

 widespread attention. Mr. Mead is state 

 engineer of Wyoming, and in connection 

 with the discharge of the duties of that 

 office he has shown himself to be an irri- 

 gation engineer of exceptional ability. He 

 has made the problem of irrigation a spec- 

 ial study, and there is no man in the arid 

 region better qualified to give advice to 

 the irrigation bureau in its investigations 

 concerning the problems which it will be 



