Consec(uently the pumping plan
bug has got into the. head of
nearly every man in the, valley,
j-.M - and, there is every reason to be
lieve that it is going to result in
II. if
in winter wheat, with as much
southwest, no one farmer, how
ever, having over forty acres
popular subscription, it is i said, Over along the edge of the
has come very near being an ar- mountains the farmers: say
tesian proposition. This well was there has been . more rain than
drilled 300 feet into the rock and for six or ;. seven years and in
the water seeps back in again . as many places they report , the soil,
fast as pumped out. Mr. Ab- a "cn chocolate loam, almost too
bott, near Estancia,, last ; year wet for working. If the farmers
irrigated , thirty; acres success- were not carrying moré or less
fully with a small ; well without a burden as a result of the
lowering the water level when past three years of ' drouthj the
pumping the hardest He used prospect would be splendid; as it
a four horse powerTgasoh'ne en- M3 it 18 muchmorii hopeful than
giné and will put in a larger plant for many months past.and with a
this year.' " ' ' plucky set of boosters working
Dilley brothers! between1 Es- J busily all the time on the solu-
tancia and Willard, are installing tion of the irrigation , problem,
a 15 horsepower FairbanksMorse there can be no doubt of the fin-
engine and Gould pump at a cost al outcome An engineer.it is un
derstood
- Hhe reai beginning Of prosperity. . 1 . "c uu 'v1""-
"The farmers have heen",Wn'- has of. necessity, been more or lore long to go. over the gas pro-
i i '. I Ipim ornt. tha'ariuia eff,n ducer or hvdm lectnc nlant rjro-
,tnev recognjze that ary farming "f"" LMi(im "A " ""..r;
.i . i i r hvp nnr naan raarart a a nnsaAH i uuiiiuii nun in rvi' riui cjl-
hiMiis.a science that nas maae nossi-" "7" " .v- o .Pa0acu - ...
