The Evening Statesman

WASHINGTON, OREGON
AND
THE
NORTHWEST

ratio with the length of the cylinder.

WATER LIFTER A SUCCESS
To raise the water 200 feet high would
BE TEN MILLION DOLLAR FA
require
a
cylinder
of
boiler-iron
strength, but it would be entirely prac-
ticable.

Invention of Idaho Man. Given a
Fair Trial
BREAKS DOWN UNDER HEAVY STRAIN
PROVEN, HOWEVER, THAT PROB-
LEM OF IRRIGATION HAS
BEEN SOLVED

S. R. Morden has returned
from
Snake river, where a
thorough test
was made of his recently invented
water lifter, that proved it truly a mar-
vel in construction and efficiency, says
the Boise Capital News.
The big cylinder, 14 feet long and
nine
feet in
diameter, with ends of
two-inch lumber and sides of heavy
galvanized iron floated securely on the
bearings fixed at either end. The spiral
water intake was
1x2 feet in dimen-
sions and the outlet pipe was
eight
inches in diameter. The great cylinder
by the action of the current made seven
revolutions per minute and the water
from the 8 inch
pipe
was
thrown
straight out a distance of 20 feet with
great force. A perpendicular pipe 20
feet high was coupled on and the water
was thrown four feet above the top
of the pipe.
The cylinder breathed
and pulsated at every revolution like
a thing of life. The ends would bulge
out as if they were made of paste-
board, and soon the steel rivets began
to fly out of the iron spirals. causing
great rents from which the water rush-
ed with the force of a hydraulic ram.
The machine was not strong enough
to perform its task, but the fact was
demonstrated that the theory of its
construction was correct and that the
invention will prove the most remark-
able ever made in that line. It con-
tains not a single valve or gate, and
when properly constructed and closed
there is nothing to get out or order.
To tell how it lifts the water is a dif-
ficult matter, but in a general way
it may be said the water enters the
spiral intake and is forced around and
up
by
the power of the current press-
ing continuously with each revolution
of the cylinder.
The short time the lifter was run-
ning
with water rushing from
the
spirals, 2000 gallons per minute was
raised to the height of 24 feet. To ac-
complish this the revolution of the cyl-
inder was reduced from seven to five
and a half times per minute. Had the
lifter been stronger there is no doubt
the flow could have been carried to a
height of 50 feet,
The height to which the water may
be thrown is governed by the length
of the cylinder.
Tests with a smaller
lifter have shown that this height is
increased proportionally in a definite

The cylinder rests in the water al-
most half submerged, and in order to
provide against leaks and keep the
water out of the inside an ingenious
baling device has been invented, in
the shape of a spiral which catches the
water from the bottom and with each
revolution carries it up to the center
where it empties out through a small
aperture.
The device is truly marvelous, and,
used on the Snake river alone, should
make the inventor a fortune.
Mr.
Morden has secured patents in this
country together with all the principal
countries of the globe, and is therefore
fully protected. The device attracted
much attention at the patent office and
promises to make the inventor famous
as well as wealthy.