Irrigation Farming a Handbook for the Proper Application of Water in the Produc
Irrigation Farming a Handbook for the Proper Application of Water in the Produc
Lucius Merle Wilcox
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The dam is 44 feet high, 330 feet long, and no feet wide at the bottom. A tunnel 140 feet long, through solid rock, some distance away from the dam, furnishes an outlet for the reser- voir. In condudling the water down Currant Creek Caiion a large flume crosses on high trestlework, and some distance below where it was necessary to cross 136 IRRIGATION FARMING. FIG. 35 — SIDE VIEW OF SMALL IRON FLUME. the canon again, the water is condudled through an arc pipe-line 2, 000 feet in length. There i...s nearly one and a half miles of this pipe and flume, and so well was the work done that when the water was turned in to the full capacity scarcely a leak was seen anywhere. Iron Flumes. — One of the greatest objedlions to the use of wooden irrigating flumes is the alternate shrinking and swelling of the wood and the con- sequent warping and distortion of the strudlures. To overcome this dif- ficulty, and at the same time to provide a durable substitute, easy of trans- portation and eredlion, M.
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