THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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AMES TUBULAR PROPELLER PUMPS. 



These pumps are designed to deliver large quanti- 

 ties of water at the surface from bored wells of small 

 diameter. The 10-inch pump has a capacity of 1,000 

 gallons per minute from a twelve-inch well at 100 feet 

 or more lift to the surface. 



They require no pit or expensive foundation, are 

 belt driven, efficient, durable and effective, easy to in- 

 stall and operate. They are designed and used in bored 

 wells for the purpose of irrigation, and for wells where 

 water is below suction limit. They may be used in 

 wells that flow at 

 the surface, b u t 

 when pumped, 

 water recedes one 

 hundred or more 

 feet from the sur- 

 face. This is im- 

 portant, as it is 

 well known that a 

 suction pump can 

 only lower water in 

 wells twenty feet, 

 while these pumps 

 may be sunk 100 

 feet into the water 

 and pump at its 

 living source from 

 the bottom of bore. 



I n conversa- 

 tion with Mr. 

 "Ames, it was 

 learned that his 

 business has devel- 

 oped from a purely 

 local trade until 

 hig pumps are now 

 sold and are in op- 

 eration in Wash- 

 ington, Oregon, 

 California, Nevada' 

 Arizona, New Mex- 

 ico, Texas, Mexico, 

 Hawaii Islands and 

 Australia. Mr. 

 Ames has built up 

 a fine business and 

 has, he states, prac- 

 tically no competi- 

 tion where the lar- 

 gest possible 

 amount of water is 

 required from deep 

 wells of small 



diameter at the minimum cost for power and main- 

 tenance. 



IN THE RIO GRANDE BASIN. 



AMES TUBULAR PROPELLER PUMP. 



Owing to the great interest in artesian water and 

 oil prospects in the Arkansas Valley between Pueblo and 

 Manganola, the United States Geological Survey has 

 had Geologist Fisher in that section for several months 

 to ascertain the geologic structure and artesian con- 

 ditions. His report is expected in a short time. Geol- 

 ogist Siebenthal, of the Survey, has been at work for 

 some time in San Luis Valley and reports that he has 

 finished about two-thirds of the artesian area. His re- 

 port will be printed at an early date. 



REPORTS OF ENGINEERS HEED AND DAVIS ON THE WORK 

 ACCOMPLISHED IN NEW MEXICO. 



[Special Correspondence of Irrigation Age.] 



WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12. Mr. Arthur P. 

 Davis and Mr. W. M. Reed, engineers of the United 

 States Reclamation Service, have submitted reports cov- 

 ering their work in New Mexico, and same will shortly 

 appear in the Second Reclamation Report. 



The work of 

 Mr. Davis and his 

 party has been 

 wholly in the 

 drainage basin of 

 the Rio Grande, 

 the work being 

 largely to supple- 

 ment that of pre- 

 v i o u fc investiga- 

 tions made by the 

 bureau. Mr. Davis 

 had under particu- 

 1 a r consideration 

 the international 

 dam and reservoir 

 and the Elephant 

 B u 1 1 e reservoir 

 site. 



The first pro- 

 ject involves the 

 construction of a 

 masonry dam to 

 reach about sixty 

 feet above low 

 water in the Rio 

 Grande. Such a 

 dam would form a 

 reservoir about fif- 

 teen miles in 

 length, four miles 

 in greatest width, 

 covering 26,000 

 acres, and having a 

 capacity of about 

 540,000 acre feet. 

 The estimated cost 

 of the entire pro- 

 ject is $2,300,000, 

 of which a large 

 proportion is due 

 to the expense of 

 moving sixteen 

 miles of railroad line above the reach of high waters 

 in the reservoir. 



The Elephant Butte site was investigated by Mr. 

 C. H. Fitch and .Mr. James A. French, and a small 

 party was kept at work during the summer making a 

 topographic map of the canyon. A very careful survey 

 was made of a damsite a short distance below the one 

 selected for the Elephant Butte project, in order to in- 

 vestigate its feasibility. It was found that a dam could 

 be built about one-half mile below Elephant Butte to 

 a height of 170 feet, which would throw the water 

 through a divide to the west, forming a natural spill- 

 way. The surveys show that such a dam would form a 



