The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-24

GREGG & CO..
Corner Richardson and Taylor Streets,
g S@|es\@M@\Aa s. g.
Valuable and Extensive Water Power
In the City of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered oy The Legislature of South Caro-
lima.
THE undersigned Commissioners. an
Il pointed by the General Assembly OF
south Carolina, at its late session, will
receive nSaTTe,l Dlds for the valuable w A r E R
POWER known as theCOLUMBIA CANAL.
until the first day of April next.
Inc :. Canal Is eight thousand six hundred
ana h1ty-four yards long, and the average
fall for the first threemiles is fourteen feet.
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 it's mouth.
commences at ninctem feet ten inches, and
attalns fall of twenty-five feet. Fine
building sites exist between the canal and
river, giving complete protection to build
lnSs and machinery from frcshets. The
State. through the undersigned, will con-
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 wav.
+" ao 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, bv Act of
| 18th December 1S45.
Ihls power has been accurately SURVEYED
| by Prof. John LcConte, 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. LcConte estimates that by doubling
the original capacity of the canal, as re-
| quired by the Act, that the power secured
to Bridge street will be 355 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 current of two feet per second, the
powers would be 710 and 1 ,064 horsepower;
and IT the machinery is not run at night
the power may be doubled by accumulat-
! ing water in reservoirs.
''As the supply of water" says Prof
LeConte, (which may be turned from the
river into the canal at it's head, is almost
unlimited, the canal can be enlarged to an
extent commensurate with the demand for
water power. If desired, it may be made
to supply water to the extent of 5000 horse
power or more. In fact, by very simple
arrangements, onethlrd or one-half, or
even more, of the whole water in Broad
River, might be turned into such an en-
larged canal"
This water poweris literally within the
city Of Columbia. The city is now supplied
by railroads penetrating nearly every Dis
trlct in the State, furnishing the produc-
tlons 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 salubrious
and healthy, being above the miasmatic
region, and invites, for pleasant settlement
and society, merchants, artisans, mecha-
MICS, manufacturers and persons of for
tune and leisure.
| The property WILDE 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 atleast twice its
origininal capacity. Cts original capacity
was fifteen feet wide at top. eight feet at
| bottom and four feet in depth; to double
it according to Prof. LeConte's report, it
will require the removal of 36, 107 cubic
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 removcd.) That the
same shall always be kept open for boating
poSeS, lIco vi clldIScS, W where IL Is
now used. (Ihis will not interfere at all
with the water power for driving machine
ry, as boats only descend sfar as tho first
lock, near Upper street,
That the water shall not become stag
nant, and that it shallnot 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; one-third at the expiration
of six months therefrom, and the remain
ing third at the expiration of twelve
monSns. 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 un-
equaled 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.
| All the communications may be addressed
to the undersigned at Columbia, s. G.
JAMES l.. ORR,
Governor,
WM. d. PORTER,
Lieutenant Governor
JAMES G. GIBBES,
Mayor Of Columbia.
Columbia, s. c., January 49, 1866.