The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-14

Iaken at the Press, adjoining thesSSS%@g
y. Jan 81 1mo*
Valuable and Extensive Water Power
In the City Of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered dy the Legislature of South Caro-
Ina.
HNHE undersigned Commissioners. an
y pointed by the General Assembly of
South Carolina, at it's late session. will
receive bids for the valuable WATER
POW ERknown as the COLUMBIA CANAL.
until the first day of April next.
Inc canal IS eight thousand six hundred
ana tlfty-four yards long, and the average
1aH Tor the first three miles is fourteen fc ct.
commencing at ten feet at Upper street, in
Columbia, and attaining nineteen feet one
men at Bridge street; the remaining two
miles, from Bridge street to it's 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
lngs and machinery from fresnets. Tho
State, through the undersigned. will con-
vey the canal and all it's appurtenanccs.
together with the right of wav for sixty
feet on each side of the ccntrc OF the canal
adjacent land owners for the right of wav.
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
10Th December, 1S45.
This power has been accurately SURVEYED
by Prof. John LeConte, of the South Caro-
INA 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 bv doublino
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 it's mouth 532 horse
power, with an average head of twenty-one
feet, and current of one foot per second.
With a current of two feet per second, the
powers would be 710 and / ,064 horsepower:
and II the machinery is not run at night
the power may be doubled by accumulat,
ing water in reservoirs.
49, AS 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 {, 900 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. Thecity is now supplied
by railroads penetrating nearly every Dis
trict in the State, furnishing the produc-
tons 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-
mes, manufacturers and persons of for
tune and leisure.
The property will be sold on the following
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 at
bottom and four feet in depth; to double
it according to Prof. LeConte's report, it
will require tho removal of 36,1O7 cubic
yards Of earth, and 5000 cubic yards of
stone to Bridge street, and from Bridge
rect to its mouth %, 176 cubic yards of
carth-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
nanr;;> and that f shalln be used for other
than hydraulic purposes.
That one-third of tho 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 its location, in the
judgment of the Commissioners, is un-
equalcd 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
c.mc.
All the communications may be addressed
to the undersigned at Columbia, S. c.
JAMES J.. ORR,
Governor,
VIM. ID. PORTER,
Lieutenant Governor.
JAMES G.. GIBBES,
Mayor of Columbia.
Columbia, s. c., January %, 1866.
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