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CHEAP OIL HELPS PUMPING 



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quantities. The asphaltum has been extracted to a 

 great degree and there is only left from 12 to 15 

 per cent in the oil and this is readily consumed as 

 a fuel. A 25 H. P. engine designed to use this by- 

 product will use less than three gallons of this 

 cheap oil an hour, and as it takes about six hours to 

 pump one acre foot of water the fuel cost per acre 

 foot will be about 45 cents \Ye figured that he 

 would use 2 l /2 acre feet per year per acre so the 

 fuel costs for irrigating one acre of land will only 

 be about $1.10 or $1.15 a year. Anyone that knows 

 anything about costs of irrigation knows that any 

 crop can be grown profitably if water costs twice 

 as much as this, and if one will only investigate the 

 situation prevailing amongst those occupying lands 

 where the water is near the surface, it will be found 

 that the poor equipment that was put in some years 

 ago will operate only upon fuel costing several 

 times as much as the fuel oil that certain engines 

 now use. 



It may appear strange, but it is none the less 

 true, that Eastern manufacturers realized the ne- 

 cessity of building engine equipment that would 

 use this low grade fuel before builders in California 

 awoke to this necessity, and at this time the only 

 engines available in the West that will use the 

 heavier grades of asphaltum base oil are Eastern 

 built. 



To summarize the situation in a few words, 

 California has limitless thousands of acres of the 

 choicest land awaiting development under ideal 

 climatic conditions, ample water supply, the cheap- 



est known fuel, and the markets are clamoring for 

 what California alone can supply. The best and 

 wealthiest cities in the irrigable valleys were strug- 

 gling rows of buildings along the line of the rail- 

 road with nothing but desert stretches north, south, 

 east and west, not so many years ago, and it is to 

 be borne in mind that new towns are started and 

 grow to healthy, well built, well governed cities 

 with excellent schools and all that goes to make 

 any city worth while, in the space of a few years, 

 and land values in and around these oases increase 

 rapidly, but consistently, and seldom decrease. 



Small tracts are appealing strongly to many of 

 the more recent investors and the old idea that the 

 income from a farm or ranch was in proportion to 

 the acreage is gradually giving way to the newer 

 theory that a smaller tract handled properly, 

 planted to any of the scores of money-making prod- 

 ucts of the soil, involves less initial cost, less labor 

 and better returns. Ten acres of the right crop 

 in the right section is all anyone really needs, al- 

 though a majority prefer as much land as their 

 pocketbook will permit of their buying. 



To be truly independent, regardless of the acre- 

 age involved, the water supply should be secured 

 from under the land itself. Small pumping plants 

 are just as practical, and in proportion to their size, 

 are just as economical as larger installations. Cheap 

 fuel oil is now available in practically any section 

 of the State. 



To aid prospective settlers in the cheap-oil 

 pumping sections of California, the Bessemer Gas 

 Engine Company recently has opened a Bureau of 

 Information at 908 South Olive street, Los Angeles. 



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