The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-17

Valuable and Extensive Water PowerI
IN the City of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered by the Legislature Of South Caro-
Ina.
|THE undersigned Commissioners, ap-
Il pointed by the General Assembly ofE
south Carolina, at it's late session, will
i receive bids for the valuable w AT E ri
POWER known as the COLUMBIA CANAL,
until the first day of April next.
The Canal is eight thousand six hundred
land hfty-four yards long, and the averaged
fall for the first three miles 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 its Mouth, \
commences at nineteen feet ten inches andl
attains fall Of twenty-five feet. Fine
building sites exist between the canal and)
river, giving complete protection to build
ings and machinery from frcshets. The!
State, through the undersigned, will con-
vey the canal and all its 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 GreenvilIe and
! 18th December, 1S45.
Inns power has been accurately surveyed
by PROT. 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. 6. 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 RrlHpa Straot tn itc
8power, with al average head Of twentv-one
! fleet, and current OF one foot per second
With current of two feet per second, the
powers would be 710 and ,064 horsepower;
and If the machinery is not run at night,
the power may be doubled bv accumulat-
! ling water in reservoirs.
"As the supply. Of water says 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
Hextent commensurate with the demand for
water power. If desired, it may be made
! to supply water to the extent of s, 900 horse
%power or more. In fact, by very simple
arrangements, one-third or one-half, or
Seven more, of the whole water in Broad
River, might be turned into such an en-
%larged canal"
! This water power is laer.auu within the
city of Columbia. The city is now supplied
8 by railroads penetrating nearly every Dis
trict in 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
land gooo Watc-. the climate is salubrious
and healthy, being ebove the miasmatic
region, and invites, for pleasant settlement
and society, merchants, artisans, ~ Oh a
MICS, manufacturers and persons of for
\ tune and leisure.
The property will be sold on the following
aconditions, 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 :.
s origininal capacity. (Its original capacity
was fifteen feet wide at top. eight feet at
bottom and four feet in depth; to double
lit according to Prof. LeContes report, it
! will require the removal of 36, lO7 cubic
yards Of earth, and 5000 cubic yards Of
stone to Bridge street. and from Bridge
street to its mouth %, 176 cubic yards of
earth3no stone to be removed.) That the
same shall always be kept open for boating
8purposes, free of charges, to where it is
now used (This will not interfere at all
with the water power for driving machine
Try, as boats only descend asfar as the first
Hook: near Upper street.)
That the water shall not become stag
5 nant, and that it shall not be used for other
than hydraulic purposes.
That one-thlrd OF the sum bid shall be
Spald within thirty days after notice of ac-
8ceptance of bid; onethird at the expiration
of six months therefron, and the remain
&lng 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, OF default being made Of any of the
foregoing conditions, including payment
{ Of all the purchase money.
q This water power with its location, in the|
1 judgment of the Commissioners. is un-
4equaled by any in the State of South Caro-
! lina and not surpassed by any in the
SSouthern country.
4 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. D. PORTER,
Lieutenant-Governor.
JAMES G.. GIBBES,
Mayor Of Columbia.
3 Columbia, S. c., January %, 1866.
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