THE IKRIGATIOX AGE. 



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CORRESPONDENCE 



AN IRRIGATION PROBLEM IN OKLAHOMA. 



Chicago, 111. 

 IRRIGATION AGE Publishing Company, 



Gents : I am going to install an irrigation plant and I 

 inclose a blue print of same. 



I wish some advice in the matter and I will ap- 

 preciate any information you may be able to give me 

 in regard to same. Now if you are not familiar with 

 irrigation conditions in the southwest maybe you can 

 refer me to some one who knows. 



I have a lift of 18 feet out of river flowing 40 to 

 50 second feet and I have the first water right. From 

 the river east there is a fall of three feet in one-quarter 

 of a mile. Down the river there is enough fall to run 

 water in ditch parallel to river bank. The river overflows 

 about one to three feet in places, but there is little cur- 

 rent and a high foundation would take care of a sta- 

 tionary engine. 



I will have to arrange to take care of the west side 

 of the river and I would like to do so with one pump. 

 The banks are 40 ft. across. Land slopes from river. Now 

 I wish to know will it be best to install a stationary 

 engine and a large pump, say No. 10 centrifugal, or 

 had I better install a portable one and use two pumps, 

 one lower down the river? 



What kind of engine (oil or gasoline) must I in- 

 stall? I can buy good oil at 75 cents per barrel and a 

 cheap gasoline at 9% cents per gallon at Foss. 



I have already installed an International Harvester. 

 35 h. p. gasoline stationary engine and a No. 10 Gould 

 centrifugal pump on a place lower down tne river to 

 irrigate 200 acres of alfalfa. I have not tested the engine 

 fully on account of my main ditches being too small to 

 carry the water. 



The company guarantees to lift 3,000 gallons per 

 minute a height of 20 feet. I would like to get my second 

 place ready as soon as possible for next year's crop. 



Our alfalfa needs moisture in March, so 1 must get 

 busy. You can return my blue print. 



Thanking you for favor, I am, sir, 

 Yours truly, 



W. F. CANTELOU. 



[Editor's Note. This problem was submitted to Mr. R. C. 

 Wise, mechanical engineer of the Henion and Hubbell Co. of 

 Chicago, who has made a thorough study of the situa- 

 tion and whose answer has been forwarded to Mr. 

 Cantelou some time ago. But the whole problem is of 

 such general interest that we had a cut made of the 

 map and present the complete analysis to our readers 

 at this time.] 



THE ANSWER ANALYZING THE PROBLEM. 



THE IRRIGATION AGE, 



Mr. D. H. Anderson, Publisher, 



30 North Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 



We note correspondence and data which you have re- 

 ferred to us from Mr. W. F. Cantelou, Foss, Okla., in regard 

 to pumping water for irrigating a plat of land, as per blue- 

 print of the survey, also at hand (see accompanying sketch). 



As situated, the Washita River divides the land in two 

 parts, on a rough north and south line. The part west of the 

 river is a long, narrow strip, about 40 to 60 rods wide, and 

 a half mile long, and comprises apparently about 40 acres, to 

 be irrigated. The part east of the river, according to the 

 plat, consists of bottom lands and some uplands, including in 

 which is about 200 acres to be irrigated. 



The river flows in a general southerly direction, making 

 a wide turn around the southwestern corner of the large 

 eastern portion of the land. We presume it borders on Mr. 

 Cantelou's land all the way, making roughly 1J/2 miles of 

 river bank around this part of the land. 



Judging from the location marked on the plat for the 

 pump, this is probably the highest point of the land, and is 

 at the northern line. From there the land seems to gradually 

 slope away toward the farther corner of the eastern section, 

 and also toward the southern portion of the western section. 

 Mr. Cantelyou states that there is a fall of three feet in 

 !4-mile down the river. No doubt the general fall in the land 

 is about the same, which would be ample fall for ditching 

 Both parcels of the land, that is, on each side of the river, 

 are to he irrigated. 



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Plat of Land to be Irrigated. 



