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BULLETIX 304, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT L'RE. 
and the unit costs correspondingly increased. The results are calcu- 
lated for average lifts of 5 and 10 feet. All three of these plants are 
well built and carefully operated. They are quite representative of 
their types, and the costs of pumping given in Table 17 should 
quite closely approximate what might be expected in similar plants 
operated under like conditions. 
Table 15. — Total costs oj pumping — Steam-driven plants. 
District. 
Charges per 
acre per year 
on assessed 
area. 
Charges per 
acre per year 
on watershed 
area. 
Total charges 
per acre per 
year on— 
Xutwood 
Eldred 
Hillyiew 
Big Swan 
Meredosia 
Crane Creek 
Coal Creek 
Lacev 
Do 
Louisa-Des 
Moines 
Spring Lake 
Des Moines 
County Xo. 1... 
>36. 4*0 S4. 750 
2s. 
3.640 
3, 250 
3, 250 
2,470 
2.080 
2,080 
1,950 
1.950 
6. 500 
7, 800 
Acres. Acres. 
S4,338 10,700 15,000 
3,132: 9,305| 9,500 
8,140; 12,300 18,500 
6,0*4 12.000 15,000 
3, 760 5, 000 
5,340, 
6,700 
5,200 
3,200 
1,995 
2, 759 
6,912 
1.89S 
1,950 
6,000 
7,426 
5,200 
3,200 
.444 
. 391 
. 264 
.271 
, 657 
.3:\> 
SO. 405 SO. 317 
. 337 . 383 
.662 
.507 
. 531 
.516 
310j 1. 032 
375 . 365 
610 . 610 
1,230144,000 18.700 
Average. 
,280 ! 13,000 16.000 
,600 12,850 22,500 
.500 
,6o: 
11,570 28,600 75,000; .654; 
.670 
.405 
17 i 
.217 
, 494 
.347 
.280 
375 
,610 
.347 
.249 
SO. 849 
.728 
.926 
.77^ 
1.188 
.906 
1.342 
.740 
1.220 
SO. 607 
.713 
.616 
.623 
.893 
.807 
1.210 
.740 
1. 220 
404 
Table 16. — Total costs oj pumping — Electrically -driven plants. 
Charges Charges 
Total 
CO 
per acre 
per acre 
charges 
CO 
c 
© 
per year 
per year 
per acre 
on assessed 
on water- 
per year 
§ 
ft 
area. 
shed area. 
on— 
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m 
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District. 
1 
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© 
- 
= 
a 

C3 
© 
ci 
| 
1 
o 
ft 
CD 
! 
1 
© 
— 
O 
I 
■% 
CO 
CO 
© 
CO 
CO 
- 
© 
Is 
X 
= 
cS 
ft 
— i 
© 
X 
03 
© 
9 
© 
1 
CO 
c3 
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fe 
< 
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5 
Acres. 
Acres. 
Big Swan 
MOO 
S20,000 
S2, 600 
S10. 790 
12. 000 
15,000 
SO. 217 
SO. 900 
SO. 173 
SO. 720 
SI. 117 
$0. 893 
Lace}'. 
Pekin-La Marsh.. 
Coal Creek 
East Peoria 
1S5 10.000 1,300 
135 7.SQ0 1.000 
300 
125 
Average. 
20.000 
10,500 
1,360 
3.200 
3,520 
7, 027 
1.570 
3,200 
2,600 
6,700 
750 
3,200 
3,200 
7 - 
1,550 
,406 1.000 
,3^5 1.354 
388 1.049 
. 313 
. 350 
1.S10, 2.093, .87 
1.000 1.406 
1.100 1.739 
.946 L437 
1.013 3.903 
1.406 
1.413 
1. 296 
1. 890 
1.380 
i Plant has one 100-horsepower motor and 300 horsepower of steam engine. 
100-horsepower motors were installed. 
First cost estimated as if four 
