Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-06-07
S. H. Fisk of Chattanooga
Nashville Electric R'y.
GOING TO MAKE RUN IN
TWO AND HALF HOURS
Fifty Thousand Horse Power
Ten Months in the Year is
Claimed for Caney Fork
Power Plant When 1t
Is Finished.
Chattanooga Times:

Chattanooga Times:
S. H. Fisk, associated with the Great
Forks Power company, controlling the
power of the Caney Forks falls in Nc
MINI county, is in the city looking af
ter the organization of a company to
take over water rights that his COM
pany holds and to construct an electric
railway from Chattanooga to Nash
vile.
He states that his company has ac-
quired the rights to an old railroad
survey from McMinnville to Nashville
and that they had recently completed a
survey this way as far as the Tennes-
see river This road, Mr.. Fisk states,
will be in the neighborhood of at least
25 or 80 miles shorter than the present
|. route from this place to Nashville and
they will be enabled to run trains
through in about three hours, which is
two hours shorter than the present
schedule The proposed route will
cross the mountains on grade at no
place more than one ,and one-half per
cent. and there will not be a single
reverse curve on the road, the sharpest
curve being about 60 degrees. While
it has not yet been definately decided
it is believed that electric locomotives
modelled after those used by the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail
road company will be adopted, using a
single phase, high potential, alternat-
ing current, which will be generated
at the Caney Forks power plant.
This fall has, according to authori-
ties consulted, flow sufficient to pro
duce so, 900 horse power ten months
in the year, the other months produc-
ing about SO, 00O This will be suffic-
lent not only to furnish current for any
number Of manufacturing plants in
Chattanooga that might desire it.
1t is the plan of the company to OPP
crate solid express trains, with sleep
ers and dining cars and it is intimated
that the electric road will be financed
by two of the largest railroad systems
in the country who desire to obtain di-
rect communication between Nashville,
Chattanooga and eastern and western
points. A number of important coal
fields will be opened besides which
the proposed right of way traverses one
of the richest farming sections in East
Tennessee, going directly through Sc
ouatchie valley, across McMinnvllie
and out by way of Altamont. Mr.. Fisk
will return to Chattanooga in about
two weeks when he will apply for q
charter and be states active work viii
be taken to secure right of way into
Chattanooga, though he would not say
Just where he intended to cross the rlv'
er.
II cannot say just when work vii
commence on my plant, said Mr.
Fisk, ''but it win be at no distant
date and when completed will be ablt
to furnish power to Chattanooga man
ufacturers at but little more per horse
power than they would have to pay
were they at Niagara Falls. 1t vii
not cost me to install my plant more
than $40 per horse power, which i
compared with some others will bO
found to be considerably less than |
number of plants now being installed
in this country.
Regarding Mr., Fiske, the promote
of the Chattanooga Nashville Electric
Railway, the Nashville American, af
ter giving a resume Substantially ~
above says:
"'Chas. H. Fiske, is well know
in Nashville as the promoter of tn
scheme TO harness the water power o
Caney Fork Falls, on the Warren
White County lines, and convey tn
same to Nashville Mr.. Fiske has aC
qured title to considerable propert
in the neighborhood of the falls an
has worked industriously for the pas
three or four years to acquire sutficien
capital to finance the undertaking