"' 8 RECLAMATION SERVICE , M 



IO degrees ' yet il has bc - known 



head. Each pump- to register 105. Even with tin- 



ing station is connected by suction mometer at 105, the u \ 



P-pes to a No 9 vertical centrifugal pressive, as the eVtren c dry n 



pump driven by a 2 3 -horse power the atmosphere makes the 



vertical motor. The 23 stations will temperature closer to 70 



be operated from a central power temperature of 105 in 



" 





During the irrigation season this 



leviathan pumping system will lift e winter tne thermometer 



30,000 acre-feet, or 10,77^,000000 occasionally drops to zero or a few 



gallons. egrees lower, but as a rule the \vin- 



The work of the Government has ter day . s are cloudless and the temper- 



already given a decided impetus to so hi ? h that a person can 



private enterprise in that section, and " lve a und without needing an over- 



if successful will greatly stimulate here are almos t no days that 



the development of similar projects in are c ' raw and ""Peasant. The 



other valleys of the Great Plains ln mes P ractlcall .v every day in the 



where conditions are similar to those ^ ear ' and probably three hundred 



of the valley of the Arkansas. days are . cloud less. This abundance 



There has been an increase in land sunshine makes plant growth rapid 



values since the initiation of the work and healthful, and produces a cheer- 



and Easterners who have not dis- ame of mind in the fa ier. 



posed of _their holdings may yet ob- The valley is singularly free from 



tarn a fair return from their invest- severe storms. There are almost no 



ments - thunder storms, cyclones are un- 



Carson Sink I n the Carson Sink in known ' and the wind s which do occur 



And H^It 61 " Nevada > another are infrec l" e , nt and not severe. There 



country where an arti- are no earth q a kes. 

 ficial water supply is necessary for ag- 



riculture. There also the Federal Alfalfa T , . 



Government has brought the water to Growsin \. 1S re S uIant y of the 



the land. This is the project which Winter one of >ts 



as noted in our last issue, has just agreeable charac- 



reached completion Untimely frosts are rare. 



The climate of the Carson Sink Val- ^ etwe ^ n Ma y loth and October ist 



ley is dry; it is perhaps one of the S ,f dom a frost < aml after 



driest places in the United States ' a11 tender garden ve-rt.,hles 



The rainfall varies from two to four Sre Safe " On March Ist the weather 



inches a year, and on the average is g , r r WS s "^ cie J ltlv warm to start alf- 



perhaps nearer two than four There t' and by May Ist the alfnlfa is :i 



is practically no rainy season though lli - h The 



the greater part of "the rain comes growth wil] contmuc until the tst of 



during the winter and spring months \l Ovemb 1 e ( . r ' and (lunn - nian - v w nters 

 Occasionally snow storms o?cur dur- 

 ing the winter, but there is seldom 



more than an inch or two of snow at The climate of the valley is v 



a time, and this does not remain on healthful. It is n ..utcloo'r 



the ground more than two days in climate, mild in it- extremes, favor- 



succession. alilc to pi with a tendenrv to- 



Dry and Hoi The summers are hot ^ni lung diseases and in all of its 



H ' a "d drv. The thermom- ^~ 



eter seldom goes above <!irahle clirtiates oi the ^ 



