The Hood River News, Hood River, OR., April 27, 1923

NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEM AT HUSUM

     For the first time since it was planted, the 52 acre orchard of J.E. Slade, at Husum, will this spring be under a modern and complete irrigation system, and will be the first orchard in that section to be under a permanent irrigation system.  Mr. Slade, with two others, has spent practically the entire winter in rushing work on the system to have it in operation this spring and it is expected that, when the dry weather calms, it will be easy to give the entire orchard the proper amount of moisture.
     The water is drawn from the White Salmon River by means of a wing dam and flume. The dam is 400 feet long and the flume is over 500 feet in length.  With the aid of a 33 horsepower turbine engine and a 5 inch centrifugal pump, 600 gallons of water can be pumped every minute to a height of 110 feet.  Throughout the orchard there are 2850 feet of irrigation pipes, sufficient to irrigate thoroughly the entire orchard of 52 acres.  This irrigation system will be watched with much interest by other ranchers of the Husum section, for a supply of water for irrigation has long been a problem of that section.