Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-04-14
DAMNED!
A Stupendous Enterprise Successfully Carried Out
Fifteen MILES FALLS ON THE CONNECll-
CUT RIVER NOW UNDER CONTROL.
One of the Best Water Privileges in New Eng
COMPLETION OF THE DALTON POWER co. S DANA
FITZDALE.

what appears beyond all to be its successful consummaon
river yielding rssistess barrier halted IN its RAPID
for nine hours stood still then fell again INTO IT'S ePrea
1's New WIN" England Pd"e' ""'N'' 'N'''~D
About seven months ago the began the con
struGton this DAM location about three miles below the
railroad station at So Lunenbug and Whe the WORK mas np
could hardly Deeh
peted disastrous consequences had not the
o Ten not realized and be
and pankng that it is never peTeePuoe nc %
source of great while times many as nun
a sd %sn and nd has been lost of this
The banks of the river at this point and Tor aooI g
which there now lies body of from 300 to 1000 feet IN
w Ts 1nd qs u PSfi tf shape
nary gable with instead OF ridge pole lever E 6
ure one side holds the weight of the water above ana
down the other ~ tff c crossing the level on the top
varying depth from four to eight fet according TO he [
Sma iron from the bottom OF the top the
dam and then structure tightly panked on Doh ss
and the top and great quanry Oh srare Ie mass
i've piers 2ox6o with perpendicular sides and 10 eet higher
the ridge of the dam are built into 1t 1 the f th damn
on the is 60 feet and its height ~ eet k9 Inc
5rr than the general rule whole structure from shore to
shoeis length and the main IS oo e e
The main building pulp MILL 40 feet width by 90 feet IN
length constructed as to form part OF the h o other O
be iD on the Kew Hampshire upper end the mill
pondrou rack 2ox45 feet in size made OF heavy steel
ii which into the wheels OF the mill "a a w
Nearly million feet ofogs and pank and over 90 tons OF o tom
the dam and MILL an o te"
teams horses and fifty men have been engaged IN naE %
months to fill the dam beside large iGe craving
cyclone away the stone walls which lately bounded
h. b quiet beauty the landscape vicinity attract
i've while the scenery almost beyond parallel during
the t G, trtes toash the morning hours BY o'clock the sky
was the pier the New Hampshire side we looked
m the rayine watched clearly outlined ana sweeping
y. along through the White Mountains. .:-..
the waters Of checked in 50 far as a human
o1l, /
If below fne bnn rd b terrific force continued silently accommodating
noona barrier people that the Dalton
Dam meeting its test Men were there Wno w ms %
first had pophes would surely break men to whom ITS break
ing would be great loss and Wn0 sreV from idle
otv and one who with anxious soictud had directed ITS
the storm and he worked by DAY ana
o slept by night beside Friends came by apPGmte ana e
the anxiety jokes PLAYED pun Were cracked and
the merry play of wit began Men OF years became anu 'o
90 most involved became most hilarious
OBJ You might tramp and not see such show
Ofare lawyers and teachers and senotos-he IN row.
90 ladder was put down from pier the Vermont side
and delegation descended the dam The water was then Just
from the o t0 Gns these w as and
beneath engug among broken logs and it9nt that
"e n Of Hon Hale F A Tnrner who were the last
dam before 6son that the
ready Sullivan PRESIDED and the h ia OF the %
laughter had developed kee" apPe oe to r own
no this was day sport such as men seldom i've and when Ezra
ented to cut the broied boot leg nicely placed beside
his notatoes the hunor moment burst over HIM
and in vrv hrwn County examiner Wright being delegated to
refused to his own
and enored that being identify Moses beet by the brand
he rush should be suspended pending good oehaou
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But why attempt reproduce the sparkle and the glow OF
an hour which are they ash up IN te
rood participants through the long years
The breaking diving embers of roaring fire. ana IN the
dim oht are revealed the mrthtu faces OF Laughing
friends which a happy recollection thus brings to view
~ "he water coming Like school boys we were on
m hill to see sliding down the aprongenty ane
With hardly power enough wash the chips acculatet
e-then rapidly gaining through two hours more till at
r o'clock roaring waterfall 26o feet long and ~ eet "gn
whose reverberations
l.. 4,. "Have set in play thousand waterfalls,
" Making dust and silence of the woods
, Glad with the laughter of the chasing Hoods,
~ Sing O the reshened meadow-and again.
Ala An old through three years and ten had eVe
% heard about his quiet home came out on the New
shire pier resting his looked down and out across
W Aood What might his reflections OF us the Vernon
nier dared guess till the Examiner being questioned announced
as his Interpretation he doubtless considered the da
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