The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23

ELECTRIC GROW I'll.
~nnl, or the Mills al Columbia. Andcr-
ION and Pelzer Operated b!
the Mystic Power.

III. S,r.cr, icli. published ly tho
Southern Railroad and edited 10y NJ. \.
Richards. j. 81 %pnrna! w~ide-awake to the
interests OF tito South. In its !ast Issue ii
has The following interesting article Do
scria:ive -. ~, d. ciopmont of the water
power IN II. State
l.. Tie south, along the lines Of the
l..:lcrn Railway. are very many fine
WAC powers. and several have been i'm
pr.tnl and are IN use in city lighting. on
s,r.,..: cars mos and in factories. South
Car .ina's Piedmont section is possessed
0i z large number 81 available water
powers. many OF which can be improved
At very small cost. or the powers III tho
>:a;e which nave been developed three
are now furnishing electricity to cities
ana mills. They arc the power from the
broad, at Columbia, that on the Seneca,
AT Portman Falls, near Anderson. and OH
the Saluda, ~ relZer.
The Columbia pOTer il the largest OF
the three. the developed horse power be-
ing 1000, giving II Il greater power than
there is at HolyOkt, Lowell or Lawrence,
Mass. Manchester, y. H., or Lewiston.
Me. The f;road river and tho Saltlda
iist aboye Columbia unite to form The
ConSaree. Tho rapids of the Broad be
gin two miles above the city, and termi-
na;-. one mile below. falling in this dis
lance %iorty-pile feet. From these rapids
have beer built leo water power canal.
The Dimensions OF tho canal are no foot
vi 10 bottom and 10 feet at normal SUI
face Of water. with 4 depth at ten feet.
The fall. rs above, is II feet, and the ca
parity for rower Is 1000 II. T.. The
canal Wa purchased several years K
from tho State, which built it. by I:OhtOn
capitalists, who formed the Columbia
\t'nfns ,u-n- 'ntt IItI ..it - ttUIS
."ri horse power and tho Electric Light
and Power Gpm pa tile Same amount.
h Columbia Mills Company was
formed soon after the organization uf tho
power company. Til" Columbia Mill il
.orn:c,l on tho canal, and ~clcctri: power
j. transmitted 10 il By the cable from the
generating Station Oh Til" other side tf
HE ranal. Two thousand horse power is
generated ~ this station. The mill uses
OILY electric power for It's working and
al other machinery. The description
and picture OF this mill was given in a
late issue of tho Southern Euid. Tho
Cranky Mill. which now operates 2o,no
sriudles and 100 OOms followed the
Columbia III the use of electric power,
which is transmitted by wiro u half mile
from the central station.
The water power of the Seneca river,
ten miles from Anderson, S. c., has been
developed by the AnderHon Water, Light
and Power Com pany. The Seneca river
is one OF two streams which form the
Savannah, II SiX miles above its con
tluence with the Tugaloo are l'ortman
shoals, which happen to be in tho rough
esi and most inaccessible Fart of The
country. At l'ortuiAr shoals :he Seneca
for two miles cuts its way over q solid
granite bed, between high and precipi-
tous bluffs, falling a distance of 10 feet.
The company OWNS both sides OF the
river for the entire distance. Near tho
foot OF the shoals they lave erected q solid
dam OF granite and cement - foot high
aud nearly 100 feet long, and 40 designed
that 1t can DO carried to a height to uti-
liza the whole fall OF tho river whenever
he demand for more pOwer requires 1t.
The power house is built ust below the
eastern end OF tho dam, and contains
foundations, 1lumeS and wheel pits for
Two Units 0f 600 horse power each. Tiio
machinery At present Installed i'll the
power house consists of turbine wheels,
electrical generator aud Swi tchbOArdS for
handling tho electrical current and arc
assembled in two units of practically
l,Gm horse power each. From this
power house tho electricity Is conducted
ten miles, by wire, to Anderson. The
chief customer Tor tho power AT present is
the Anderson Cotton Mills COMPANY,
which has contracted for 100 horse
power, sufficient to drive it, ;,i,0DD 'ri.i-
dies aud 100 looms, and moro. The use
ri electricity in tho mills was begun No
eiEb H. last. III the older mill At An
dersOn, containing Is 900 spind iea, tor
meriy run by steam, tho 700 hr 80 power
C0rliss engine and batteries OF boilers
ilave been replaced by thrue electric mo-
tors whose combined weight scarcely OK
ceeds that OF tho ny wheel of Tho engine
acne. Tho new mill was erected to uso
electricity. In il one large synchrOnons
motor OF three inrlred horse power
VgiNvS the looms ana CARDS, me ininc
iipE motor ot 100 horse nuwor tho picker
room, and T.. small motors. ut six horse
power each. tho spinning. rho capacity
81 the mills Will ultimately he $4,000 spin
dies.
Power i, .;,~,, inrni-hei FOR the An,ley-
~)n Water Works, city electric, high,
plant. . cotton gin, mattress factory ull
0,ier industries.
''no q: the pi"l"er cotton mill cntni,a-
:!tc- to make nSe of electricity III the
mills is the big raixcr Manufacturing
Company. ~ Poker, 5. G.. III tho .>aludn
alley. This company was organized in
-, and now has mills with lW;, 0O0 spin
Hes. lolHar is i'll Anderson County,
Western South Carolina. on the Green
XII" aud Columbia limo OF the Southern
Hallway. 1t il located on tho Saludn
i,iver, and tho entire power Of the river
1hero is utilized by the company in it,
mills. h corporation controls tho Sa.
.nda river for several miles on each side,
anu in this distance arc many nndavel-
= A''pc
already utilized. The in 1894
planned IL new 5000 spindle mill, and it
was decided to run it. a. we'll IA mill No.
!, by electricity. The river three miles
below The village WAS improved by the
erection of dam - feet high and about
'h' feet long, with L spillwav OF 800 feet.
The available power thus developed WAS
,.'M'. a pnwer house was erected at the
lam site. with wheel pits aud feeders.
II five pair horizontal Victor whenis,
each with l,0no horse power; each pair OF
turbines IL connected with tho generators.
from the power house the wires carry
the electricity two aud tive-eighth miles
TO mill No. 4, and t" tho s%ychronou. mo-
tor in mill No. 8. The motor equipment
in mill No. | aggregates 2.Os0 horse
rower, divided into ~ motors, including
two OF 80 horse power. four or 40. fifteen
of ITO and five small ones from five to
twenty.
The introduction Of electricity into
these mills has proven q great success,
economically and other wise.