THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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How The Texas Panhandle Is Being 

 Developed by Irrigation Pumping 



Down near Plainview, in the Texas Panhandle, The Texas 

 Land and Development Co. are bringing under cultivation 

 many thousands of acres by plotting 160-acre farms, fencing 

 them, building on each farm a house, corral, shed, windmill 

 for house water supply and a deep well irrigation pumping 

 plant, seeding a part of the land with alfalfa so that a crop can 

 be produced the first season and selling the farms to settlers on 

 small annual payments. 



More than 75 farms have already been equipped by them in 

 this manner. But they not only sell land but maintain a demon- 

 stration farm of 200 acres, in charge of expert farmers, on which 

 all crops adapted to this area are grown. By means of this 

 demonstration they insure the success of the farmers by teach- 

 ing them what crops to grow and how to irrigate them. 



The above illustrations show installations of this Company. - 

 At top are two views of pumping plant on the demonstration 

 farm. Below, at left, buildings on one of the farms of this 

 Company (pump house in foreground and house in the distance). 



At right, irrigating two borders at one time on demonstration 

 farm, each border 50 feet wide by 660 feet long. 



The pump supplying all irrigation water for 200 acres of mixed 

 crops on the demonstration farm is an ' x ' American" 24-inch, 

 two-stage, deep-well turbine operating under a total lift of 

 75 feet, driven by an oil engine and maintaining a delivery of 

 1,500 g. p. m. 



When this pump was first installed well would only deliver 

 500 g. p. m. Several carloads of sand were pumped from well 

 during early development work, since which time quantity of 

 delivery has gradually increased. 



Pump is now in operation the fourth season without ever hav- 

 ing been removed from the well and not a cent has been ex- 

 pended for repairs. 



This is just another demonstration of the capacity and relia- 

 bility of "American" deep well centrifugal pumps. 



Ask for Catalog No. 132 describing them. 



The American Well Works 



General Office and Works: Aurora, 111. 

 Chicago Office: First National Bank Bldg. 



