The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-27

FOR SALE LOW BY
GREGG & co.
Corner Richardson and Taylor Streets,
A@AMMNNM, s. s.
Feb 8 1mo*
Valuable and Extensive Water Power
In the City of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered 6y the Legislature Of South Caro-
att lima. A4iii..s..
THE undersigned Commissioners, ap-
Il pointed by the General Assembly Of
South Carolina, at its late session, will
receive bids for the valuable WAITE r
POWERk known rs the COLUMBIA CANAL,
until the first day of April next.
The Canal is eight thousand six hundred
and tfty-four yards long, and the average
commencing at ten feet at Upper street, in
Columbia, and attaining nineteen feet one
inch at Bridge street; the remaining two
miles, from Bridge street to its mouth,
commences st nineteen feet ten inches, and
attains fall of twenty-five feet Fine
river, giving complete protection to build
lngs and machinery from frcshets. The
State, through the undersigned, will con-
vey the canal and all it's appurtenances.
together with the right Of way for sixty
feet on each side of the centre Of the canal
to the purchaser. Compensation to the
adjacent land owners for the right Of way,
to be made by the purchaser, on the same
just and equitable terms that the right of
way was conveyed to the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad Company, by Act of
18th December, 1916.
This power has been accurately surveyed
by Prof. John LeConte of the South Caro-
lima University; his report, together with
the Act of the General Assembly and this
advertisement, has been printed and may
be obtained by addressing JAS. G. GibBes,
Esq, Mayor Of Columbia.
Prof. LeConte estimates that by doubling
the original capacity of the canal, as re.
quired by the Act, that tho power secured
to Bridge street will be 955 horsepower,
the average head being fourteen feet; and
from Bridge street to its mouth 532 horse
power, with an average head of twenty-one
feet, and current OF one foot per second.
With q current of two feet per second, the
powers would be Tie and 1 ,064 horsepower;
and if the machinery is not run at night,
the power may be doubled by accumulat-
ing water In reservoirs.
GAS the supply Of water" saws Prof
LeConte, (which may bo turned from the
river into the canal at its head, is almost
unlimited, the canal can be enlarged to an
extent commensurate with the demand for
water power. II desired, it may be made
to supply water to the extent of 200 horse
power or more. In fact, by very simple
arrangements, one-third or one-half, or
even more, of the whole water in Broad
River, might be turned into such an en-
larged canal"
This water power is literally within the
city OF Columbia. The city is now supplied
by railroads penetrating nearly every Dis
trict iii the State, furnishing the produc-
tions OF cotton, rice, wheat, beef and pro-
visions, with little expense at this important
point.
The city of Columbia is supplied with gas
and good water, the climate is saiubrious
and healthy, being above the miasmatic
region, and invites, for pleasant settlement
apd society, merchants, artisans, mecha-
MICS, manufacturers and persons Of for
tune and leisure.
The property will be sold on the following
conditions, to wit: 1st. The purchaser
shall, within two years from the date of
conveyance, complete the widening and
deepening of said canal to at least twice it
origininal capacity. Its original capacity
was fifteen feet wide at top. eight feet at
bottom and four feet in depth; to double
it according to Prot. LeCopte's report, it
yards of earth, and 5000 cubic yards of
stone to Bridge street, and from Bridge
street to its mouth %, ,176 cubic yards of
earth-no stone to be removed.) That the
same shall always be kept open for boating
purposes, free of charges, to where it is
now used. (This will not interfere at all
with the water power for driving machine
ry, as boats only descend asfar as the first
lock: near Upper street:)
That the water shall not become stag
nant, and that it shall not be used for other
than hydraulic purposes.
That one-third Of the sum bid shall be
paid within thirty days after notice of ac-
ceptance of bid; e-third at the expiration
Of six months therefrom, and the remain
ing third at the expiration of twelve
months. Titles delivered on payment of
first instalment, and that the title herein
| proposed to be conveyed shall revert to the
State, on default being made of any of the
| foregoing conditions, including payment
of all the purchase money.
This water power with its location, in the
Judgment Of the Commissioners, is IN
eoualed by any in the State of South Caro-
lima, and not surpassed by any in the
Southern country.
Parties sending bids will please furnish
| the Commissioners with references as to
the ability promptly to make good the
! same.
ALI the communications may be addressed
to the undersigned at Columbia, s. c.
JAMES L. ORR,
Governor,
VIM. u. PORTER,
+ Lieutenant Governor.
| JAMES G.. G1BBES,
Mayor of Columbia.
Columbia, s. c., January 22, 1866.
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