The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-03
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
UTILIZATION or THE HORSE
 TOWER or STREAMS.
Some Interesting Facts Told by ~ Correspondents of The Mau-
 actures, Record--Rennrk-
 able strike of Lead in Missouri.

Baltimore. Feb. -tSpeciaL )-- Steady progress jn undertakings for the utilization of hundreds of thou sands of horsepower Tn the streams of the Piedmont South is developing some interesting construction features, A company which will transmit electricity for light and power to Atlanta. Ga, has, according to special correspondence from Atlanta in this weeks issue of the Manufacturers Record. almost completed it's system of transmission towers between At lanta and Gainesville. IA
 The company has several crops Of engineers in Heard county, Ga. surveying tract of 5000 acres of land which forms a natural basin and which with the construction of the necessary dam, will hold body of water 50 feet high. This great reservoir will be used as source for generating power and. together with the water-powers already acquired by the company at TalIulan Falls. Gaines vilie and Cartersville, will aggregate about 100000 horsepower.
 In South Carolina a company is preparing to develop Gregg and Cherokee Shoals, two valuable water powers on the Savannah river near
 Anderson. At Gregg Shoals, to obtain 2,500-horse power for transmission by electricity to Anderson and other near-by manufacturing points. will be | built a stone dam thousand feet long. I2 feet high and 12 feet wide
 at the base at cost of $S00,000. l. l is expected that the Cherokee Shoals
 will develop 5000 horsepower.
 Power lines. to Charlotte, N. C..
 Columbia. Spartanburg and Green viIle. S. C.. and cotton mill towns at
 intervening points will he carried from a new water-powcr plant on the | Broad river near Gaffney, s. C.. where 1 20,o00 horsepower Is to be developed
 from a 72-foot fall The company l undertaking this is operating actively
 meut of power which will eventually
 be distributed over an area 160 miles ] long and 50 miles mide through the 1 heart of what is known as the Pied mont region. Near Fort Lawn, $. C..
 the power is to be derived from water-rights on the Catawba river
 for distance of 1l0 miles from which | an aggregate of 500 feet head is Iobtainable. The method of water
 storage at this point is a unique feature. By diversion of the water
 supply from the Catawba river to the bed of a natural canal storage
 reservoir is obtained two miles long
 and quarter of mile wide and
 parallel to the river-bed.
 1 At EtBnl duEL6S dCfOSS Lue tlOWcI end of this canal a powerful retaining
 wall has been built and in 1t will be installed turbines through which the water will be turned back into the
 river bed. The plans of this enter
 prise involve development of eight valuable water-powers and the trans
 mission of electricity for lighting anI i manufacturing purposes In both the I Carolinas. More than 100000 horse- i power will be developed and the various cities and towns to be sup piled with electricity will constitute one of the most important water power electrically operated manu-
 featuring districts in the entire l county.
 A special dispatch 70 the Manu-
 faetuFes' Record from Carthage, Mo, tells of a remarkable strike of jack l and lead a few miles from that city. Three drill holes have revealed a bed
 of disseminated ore ranging in thick ness from 56 te 70 feet and it is thought that the strike will prove to be the nucleus of one of the biggest mining undertakings in southw est Missouri. In the same general locality good stun was also struck at depths ranging from 160 to zoo feet. Mills will at once be placed upon these
 properties and plans for the installa- tion on James river of a power plant point to the operation of additional mines by electricity.