THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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Model Irrigation Pumping Plants 

 of the Texas Panhandle. 



The greatest development of the future of 

 irrigation and the largest market for pump- 

 ing machinery in the United States will be 

 in the Great Plains, where the deficiency of 

 an uncertain rainfall will be met by supple- 

 mental pumping from deep wells over many 

 millions of acres. 



Trust to the weather farming even in 

 areas of greatest rainfall is only a .gamble, 

 but while the present highest development 

 of irrigation is not in California, but in New 

 Jersey, in the Great Plains every farm must 

 have its irrigation pumping plant. 



One of the places where irrigation has 

 been begun in the Great Plains is the Mata- 

 dor ranch at Channing, Texas, comprising 

 200,000 acres, and specializing in thorobred 

 Hereford cattle and saddle and track horses. 



On this ranch there are two deep well irri- 

 gation pumping installations, both equipped 

 with "American" deep well turbine centrif- 

 ugal pumps, belt driven by oil engines. 



Well No. 1 is 20 in. in diameter and 100 

 feet deep. It is equipped with an 18 in. 



three-stage pump and delivers 800 gallons 

 of water a minute. Two views of the dis- 

 charge of this pump are shown at bottom of 

 the page. 



Well No. 2 is one-half mile distant from 

 Well No. 1, and the discharge of this well 

 and an exterior view of the pump house are 

 shown at top of page. This well is 20 in. in 

 diameter, 140 feet deep, equipped with an 

 18 in. three-stage turbine, and delivers 1,200 

 gallons of water per minute. 



These two installations, while of smaller 

 capacity than many pumping plants now in- 

 stalled in the Great Plains, are said to be 

 the model irrigation plants of the Texas 

 Panhandle. These pumps are now in opera- 

 tion the third season, without a cent ever 

 having been expended for repairs. 



The capacity, reliability and economy of 

 "American" deep well turbine centrifugal 

 pumps are demonstrating their superiority 

 in the great irrigation development which is 

 now in progress throughout the Great 

 Plains. 



Catalog 132 describes these pumps. 

 Write today for your copy. 



The American Wells Works 



General Office and Works: Aurora, 111. 

 Chicago Office First National Bank Bldg. 



