The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-11-29

~hdA PO"C1 Is ueeuSu- It Vi INC IC1AASAAA-
der there should be easy sale much
nearer the point of generation With
in so miles of Rockingham are cotton
mills that use Is 900 horsepower IN
driving their machinery. Eight years
ago in the same radius the amount o.
power used was 10000 horsepower.
This power is developed by steam and
a a cost greatly exceeding the price
at which this company will of1er It
There are also many other plants, such
as tobacco factories, furniture fac
tories, cotton seed oil mills, pulp and
paper mills and mills in other lines
that use many more thousands OF horse
power, and whose owners Will no
doubt be glad of the saving to be made
by purchasing power offered TO them
at less than their present outlay, and
in the most convenient form known 20
manufacture.
1t is calculated that within a radius
of IS miles from Rockingham there is
population of 100000, and the con-
tinual increase in manufacturing in
dustries within the same radius guar
antees purchasers for all the power
this company can develop. Indeed,
large proportion of it has been already
contracted.
The electrical power generated at
the Rockingham plant will be trans
mitted principally over 200 miles of
main lines, consisting of three No l
copper cables. These cables will De
strung on steel towers IS feet high
and set 600 feet apart. The cable lines
will run to Wilmington, HartsvilIe and
McColl, and from substations along the
routes other wires, strung on poles will
distribute the current to the various
mills and factories where it is desir
ed. The completeness of the plans of
this concern and the substantial way
in which they are being carried out
may be gathered in some degree from
the fact that these steel towers. each
being a steel frame with four solid
steel posts securely fastened together
are being set every 600 feet over the
main lines of 200 miles,
The development of this great pro-
ject is in the hands Of the Rockingham
Power Co., whose president is Nr. NJ.
F. H. Gouveneur, whose chief stock
holder is the Hugh MacRae Company
and whose chief promoter is Mr.
Hugh MacRae. All these are of Will
mington Other stockholders are Mr..
| ~ Of
| r. L, Warner of Boston and tue Elec-
| trio Bond & Share Co., of New York.
! The estimated cost of the plant COM
| plete, with its transmission system, is
| $2,43O,OOO
The surveys for the plant were first
| made in 1906 by Lockwood Greene &
c. of Boston, one of the most widely
nown engineering firms in the country
They made a report highly favorable,
which was afterwards endorsed by
| Dean & Main of Boston, who later ex-
| amined the ground, engineers sent out
by the Westinghouse Company and the
! General Electric Co., and by Mr.
! Henry A. Pressey, for years in charge
/ OF the governments photographic in
vestigations. The construction plan!
being used were prepared by Mr.. Franz
E. Shedd, representing Lockwood
| Greene & Co. The contract for con
| struction was let to thu Federal Con
! structlon Co., popuiar1y supposed to b.
] the Rockingham Power Co., under an
other name and suhlet by it to III
W. R. Bonsal Construction Co., whicl
! is doing the work unier the direction
OF Mr.. Samuel LawreI ice. w A. lie
| sand, man of wiz e experience il
work of this nature, lis chief enginee
and resident manager and is assiste
! by Mr- G. E. Warner Mr.. w. P. Sno,
| IS engineer in charge at the dam, hi
assistants being Mes srs. W. E. Eide
| A +. Lyman, c. M. F'urman, Jr., an
l. II Garnet. The Federal Construt
tlon 20. IS installing the transmissiO
Lines, the work beil az done under tt
supervision of Mr. J. S. Viehe.
The visitor is II nDressed with tt
ability and practr al strength of Il
entlre force encoE ntered in call
the Offices of this concern. From Il
| chief promoter OF the scheme. throus
the president Of he company, and {
along the line to the engineer
builder lowest In official grade, he e
counters men w 40, though young
the business wO rid counts youth, a
yet possessed OF the self-reliance tn
is born Of that thorough knowledge
their undertake. lgs which comes frc
| training and 81 :perience.
GEORGE BYRNE