WATER FOR DRY-FARMS 341 
Utah since 1905, and water has been secured in the 
most unpromising localities. The most remarkable 
instance is perhaps the finding of water at a depth of 
about five hundred and fifty feet in the unusually 
dry Dog Valley located some fifteen miles west of 
Nephi. 
Pumping water 
The use of small quantities of water on the dry- 
farms carries with it, in most cases, the use of 
small pumping plants to store and to distribute the 
water properly. Especially, whenever subterranean 
sources of water are used and the water pressure is 
not sufficient to throw the water above the ground, 
pumping must be resorted to. The pumping of 
water for agricultural purposes is not at all new. 
According to Fortier, two hundred thousand acres 
of land are irrigated with water pumped from driven 
wells in the state of California alone. Seven hun- 
dred and fifty thousand acres are irrigated by pump- 
ing in the United States, and Mead states that there 
are thirteen million acres of land in India which are 
irrigated by water pumped from subterranean 
sources. The dry-farmer has a choice among several 
sources of power for the operation of his pumping 
plant. In localities where winds are frequent and 
of sufficient strength windmills furnish cheap and 
effective power, especially where the lift is not very 
great. The gasoline engine is in a state of consider- 
