San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-12
CORRESPONDENTS
AUSTIN, Sept, 10, 1892.

account of lack of capacity. The ride
up from San Antonio was delightful
in the cool OF the morning, the last
nights rain having laid the dust and
impaired a pleasant freshness to the
atmosphere. The visible signs OF the
cotton picker's work were shown in
the fields in the way of bags, bundles
and wagons filled with the tieecy
whlteDess. The country looked Ie-
mai kably green and fresh, and the
whole face OF things suggesting good
returns tor labor bestowed.
l found y most pleasant travelling
companion in the person OF MI. w.
w. Apperson, U. 3. consul at Vera
Cruz, who is en- route to his home ia
Bucklin. KS TO recuperate after an
attack of yellow fever, from which he
is just recovering. His pictures of
Vera Cruz were very graphic, and the
descriptions of his consulate very in
structive. Consul Apperson COM
plains OF the excessive cost OF living,
owing to the inordiuate duties inn
posed on ARTICLES of food, and also the
difficulty in securing from Washington
necessary consulate supplies.
Arrived In this city, parted
company with Mr.. Apperson,
who is booked for home without
stops, and paid my respects to that
braipy little woman whom all Texas
delights to honor and OF whom the
| press of this state are justiy proud,
Mrs. Julia Truitt Bishop. Found her
| in her sanctum busy working off her
issue of THE Home Corner" her new
| venture in journalism, which is GER
tair 70 nd 70 hnp al
i come in every intelligent home circle
| In the state. Mrs Bishop always
has something to say and ssysit well.
Had q short chat with Postmaster
DeGress, Collector Burke and other
republicans, and find a strong senti-
ment in favor of q straight out tlcKet,
If harmony can he restored to the
parry councils and unity of purpose
and action restored. All are i'm
pressed with the importance of the
Fort Worth gathering and DESTROYS to
reach the best results for The party
aud the state. The anti. Hogg feeling
Is very strong here, as has been rep
resented. Found State Health Officer
Swesringen just about to enter his
carriage, and having been absent
from the city and not yet returned to
his family, l cut my interview off
short. DR.. Swearingen says that
everything over the state seems pro-
pitlous for resisting the cholera cpl
demIc should it come.
Mayor Mcdonald was absent from
the city but his Sun Burt" did the
hOnors and gave the LIGHT q cordial
greeting. The dummy line out to
the dam seems q pnnderOus affair
| compared to our electric system, but
it gets there just the same, making
the 2 miles in fifteen minutes, the
track smooth and the line running
through very pleasant suburb of
the city.
The "dsm" is not to be damned by
any means, as will be seen by any
one at q glance. The dam is Of solid
masonry, all the faces OF grant. the
filling OF limestone. The down stream
face is in the form of u reverse "O.G;"
the up stream face a sheer perpen-
diculsr. The length OF the Iollwsy,
or dam crest, is 1925 feet. the bulk
heads adding another $50, making
total length of dam LIS feet. The
width At base is Sc feet; eightOf dam
above low water 80 feet, and above
foundation eS feet. The crest being
rounded 1t has, properly speaking, no
width at top, but at three feet below
the crown is Is feet wide. At the east
be located. The pipes supplying
power to the machinery will be 8 ieet
in diameter, and there will be
eight of them. These enter the dam
through the eastern bucklead, which
~ fnnf hn Of hn
dam, and draws down to a depth of
| Is feet below it, at which stage no
power is afforded. 1t is the caiculs-
ton Of the engineers that this stage
OF water will never occur, the natural
| drainage Of the Colorado valley In the
dryest season maintaining a much
higher stage OF water than this. The
faces of the dam are of rough dressed
Burnett dressed granite and on the
roll way 1t will be dressed compare
lively smooth. The flow of the river
at Its maximum stage Is placed at
$50, 900 cubic feet per second, which
would afford ,5OO,0 horsepower.
This is only 10 per cent less
than the Niagara Falls average, but
this max imum would not be reached
Oftened than once in decade. The
horse power computed from the dam
here is from its minimum flow, and is
placed at IA 500 horse power, for go
hours q week. The work is now upon
its third stsge, more than 2-3 hav.
ing been completed. Up to Sept. LIST
total masonry put in was So, 725 cubic
yards leaving about 10000 yards to
place The payments TO date upon
present con tract have been S426, 567,
| and il il now thOupht that under
favorable circums tances the work
will be finished early in April.
The LIGHT acknowledges it's obliga-
ton to Engineer Groves and staff for
courtesies. ED.