Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-10-22
WATER POWER PLANS.
Another Dam Across the Mis-
sissippi River Near
Minneapolis.

Tots magnificent total IF horse
power now produced by utilization
Of the swift current of Father
Mississippl, Minneapolis is to add
a third as much again as she has
at present. -s
The Twin City Rapid Transit
company is planning to extend the
scope of it's operations. Its ac.
tivity is to be made manifest in
the construction of new dam at
Coon Rapids III the river above
Minneapolis. where 2o-foot fall
is secured, ccording to the surveys
which have just been completed.
1t is estimated that with this fall
the new dam will furnish $4,000
horse power. :.
The power available at the pres.
ent time reaches $4,000. This
amount is thrice that Of Lowell. Of
Manchester, of Lewiston and of
other well-known factory cities of
the East. With the addition of
that to be furnished by the enter.
prise which has just been preached,
Minneapolis will stand truly pre-.
eminent. The grand total Of A.
600 will lend her name wonderful
lustre as desirable site for the
location of manufacturing and
other projects.
Green Rapids is just above that
point in the Mississippi where
Rice creek empties. Fridley is
; near by. The exact location OF the
dam has not yet been determined,
but it has been fixed with sufficient
defniteness so that1t is announced
that it will be somewhere near the
mouth of Rice creek, probably be.
low it.
1t might be supposed that the
street car company was engaging
in the enterprise with the expecta.
ton Of using al least part of the
power which will be developed.
Such an impression is erroneous,
for the company has entered into
contract with the interests con.
trolling the new Pillsbury dam be-.
low the falls for tifty.year supply
of power from that source. 49,.
Vice President G. G. Goodrich,
of the Rapid Transit company,
spoke on this point this afternoon
to a Journal man.. 'The scheme"
said he, lis an undertaking which
the Transit company will make it
a point to handle in addition to it's
present business. We are under
contract for term of years for
our supply of electric power for
our street cars both in Minneapolis
and St. Paul and you can therefore
understand that what we propose
doing has no connection with the
traffic interests Of the company.
The dam is commercial invest.
ment. We are going to supply
power to the market, and we ex.
pect that there will be plenty of
demand for it. The problems of
transmission of the electric cur
rent have become so simplified
that it is now eminently practical
to manufacture the current and
sell it as commodity. That is
Just the nature Of the business in
which we propose to engage"
The cost of the dam was not an.
nounced, but it will necessarily
reach into six figures. It will have
to be a permanent structure TO
withstand the spring food, if for
no other reason. On this point
Mr.. Goodrich said: sf..r.t ,:r
t'The lumbermen will be rather
glad than otherwise to see our i'm.
provement made. It will deepen
the water all the way to Anoka.
It will widen the river aud make
the handling of logs easier. We
anticipate no danger from logs or
jams. W.. shall see to it that the
structure is well provisioned with
runways, SO that there will be no
trouble with the drives when they
come down, either in the spring