The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-11-20
NEAL'S SHC Ism THE
HANDS OF THE WIZARD

repay anyone, feeling of grardure
will overcome you and you will sim
ply look and wonder, as one looking
at the rolling waves of the ocean,
how such things can be.
The Union Power and Manufactu.
ring Co., or rather Col. T. O. Duncan
who is the moving spirit and main
spring of the enterprise, have pur-
chased all the riparian rights on
Broad river from below the Shoals to
a distance up the river beyond back
water from the dam and are now
erecting q dam to hold the water and
make it turn the wheels of commerce
instead of affording fishing ground
for the young men of Union, Santuc
and Carlisle.
The site is one of the few grand,
magnificent and cheap developments
on our streams. A narrow point has
been selected with solid granite tut.
ting out from the bluff on the Chester
side and the ledge extending across
to the Union side terminating in high
banks fifty feet above the highest
water of record, making an opening
between abutments Of only three
hundred and SiXty-fve feet. At this
point the company is erecting dam
twentyfour feet high of the finest
workmanship One not cognizant Of
the fact would be justified in think
ing the Government engineers had
drawn specifications and were super
intending construction. The work is
on grand scale. A quarry Of the
closest knit granite has been opened
on Chester side where some hundred
and fifty hands are at work getting
out the dimension stone, which are
picked up by huge derricks, placed
on railroad truck and carried by
gravity about two hundred yards to a
point where the grabbs from the
travelling crane catches them ard
places them either on the dam, which
is nartlY fnisht, on Chester side for
about one third distance, or brings
them across the river and deposits
them in walls of the power house.
Blocks of stone ten feet long and four
feet square are handled as easily as 4
mother handles her baby. The out
side Of the dam is built Of these di
mension stones and core filled with
finely ground concrete made uf the
best Portland cement and rammed in
till not vacant space is left, max
ing the whole equivalent to one solid
rock from one bank to the other and
resting on the original bed rock
MAKE; it structure that will with.
stand any flood that Broad river has
ever had.
On the Union side is being erected
the power house, tail races, fumes,
etc. This house is certainly built TO
stand; excavations have been made
in the solid rock, and walls ten feet
thick are being erected. In this fort
ress will be located the generators.
These wonderful and mysterious cor
trivances are made by the General
Electric Co., and consist OF four ma
chimes Of 2, 400 horsepower each, and
two of $50 horsepower, aggregating
nearly ten thousand horsepower.
These generators will be directly
coupled to the turbines which dis
charge into the river parallel to and
just below the dam. On the Chester
side is located Sand Gates and the
Lock, which will enable boats to pass
through the dam.
The engineers anticipate no short
age OF water, even in summer, as the
pond will have such large area that
water will be stored at night in such
quantities that the flow in day time
when most of power is wanted will be
nearly equivalent to double the fiow
-atiow water, In the history Of water
power development nothing has ever
been launched that equals this in cost
OF construction or quick returns on
money invested. The company has
sold eight thousand horse power to be
delivered as soon as possible and the
balance has been spoken for as soon
as the Company is able to make a de-
livery date. Thus this plant will
make phenominal record of having
it's entire product sold and on an in
terest paying basis as soon as COM
Dleted.