The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-18
COLUMBIA, s. G., SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 49, 1866

Valuable and Extensive Water Power esr
In the City of Columbia for Sale.
Ordered ty the Legislature of South Caro-
Tina.
YHHE undersigned Commissioners. ap-
Il pointed by the General Assembly OF
south Carolina, at its late session, will
r@ receive bids for the valuable W A T E r
until the first day of April next.
The Canal is eight thousand six hundred
and tifty-four yards long, and the average
1aH Tor the first three miles is fourteen feet.
commencing at ten feet at Upper street, in
Coiumbia, and attaining nineteen feet one
men at br1dge street; the remaining two
miles, from Bridge street to its mouth,
commences at nineteen feet ten inches, and
attalns fall Of twenty-five feet. Fine
building sites exist between the canal and
river, giving complete protection to build
lngs and machinery from hcshets. 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 cana
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
Columbia Railroad Company, by Act OF
18th December, 1845.
Ims 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. &. 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
feet, and a current Of one foot per second.
With current of two feet pen second. the
powers would be 710 and ,064 horsepower:
and If 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 bo turned from the
river into the canal at its head. is almost
unlimited, the canal can be enlarged to an
extent commensurate with tho demand for
water power. If desired, it may be made
70 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 evcry Dis
tr1ct 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-
nlcs, manufacturers and persons of for
tune nd1eisure. -
The property will be sold on the following
conditions, to wit: LIST. The purchaser
shall, within two years from the date of
deepening Of said canal to at least twice its
origlninal capacity. (Its original capacity
was fifteen feet wide at top. eight feet at
bottom and four feet in depth; to double
1T according to Prof. LeConte's report, it
will require the removal of 36,1O7 cubic
yards Of earth, and 5000 cubic wards Of
stone to Bridge street, and from Bridge
street to its mouth 2,176 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 asf 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 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,
VIM. D. PORTER,
Lieutenant-G Governor.
JAMES G. GIBBES,
Mayor Of Columbia.
Columbia, S. c., January 2s, 1865.
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