The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-16
Valuable and Extensive Water Power
In the City of Columbia for Sale.

Valuable and Extensive Water Power
in the City of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered By the Legislature of South Caro-
> lima.
YHE undersigned Commissioners. an
Il pointed by the General Assembly Of
South Carolina, at its late session, will
Se4 receive bids for the valuable w AT E R
POWER known as the COLUMBIA CANAL.
until the first day of April next.
Ihe Canal Is eight thousand six hundred
and htty-four yards long, and the average
fall for the first three miles is fourteen feet,
commencing at ten feet at Upper street, in
Columb1a, and attaining nineteen feet one
inch at Bridge street; the remaining two
miles, from Bridge street to its mouth,
commences at nineteen feet ten inches. and
attains 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-
vey the canal and all it's appurtenances.
together with the right of wav for sixty
feet on each side of tho centre Of the canal
to the purchaser. Compensation to the
adjacent land owners for the right of way,
just and equitable terms that the right of
way was conveyed to the Greenvilfe and
Columbia Railroad Company, bv Act of
18th December, 1916.
This power has been accurately SURVEYED
by Prof. John LeConte, of the South Caro-
Una University; his report, together with
the Act of tho. General Assembly and this
advertisement, has been printed and NAV
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 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
1eet, , and q current OF one foot per second.
! With current of two feet per second, the
powers would be 71O and 1,064 horsepower;
and If the machinery is not run at night
the power may be doubled by accumu1at-
ing water in reservoirs.
LAS the supply of water" says Prof.
LeConte, (which may be 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. If desired, it may be made
to supply water to the extent Of 5,OOOhorse
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
tons OF cotton, rice, wheat, beef and pro-
visions, with little expense e 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 will be sold on the following
conditions, to wit: 1st. The purchaser
shall, within two years from the date of
deepening of said canal to at least twice its
origininal capacity. (Its original capacity
was fifteen feet wide at top. eight feet st
bottom and four feet in depth; to double
it according to Prof. LeConte's report, it
will require the removal of 36, 1O7 cubic
yards Of earth, and 5000 cubic yards Of
stone to Bridge street, and from Bridge
street to it's mouth 22,176 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 far 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; one 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 it's 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.
Allthe communications may be addressed
to the undersigned at Columbia, s. C.
JAMES L. ORR,
Governor,
W. d. PORTER,
| Lieutenant Governor.
JAMES G.. GIBBES,
Mayor Of Columbia.
Columbia $. c., January %, 1866.
+, Feb 13