The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-10-11
CONOWINGO DAM
Ten Million Dollar Project Will
Equal Immense Dam At
Mccall Ferry.
1OO-THoUsAND HORSE POWER


Harlow, president of the Conowingo
Bridge Company and one of the
engineers who planned the Mccall
Ferry project, are perfecting plans
for Harvesting the Susquehanna
River with another large dam, to
generate electric current for the
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore
and other markets. The proposed
dam will be twice as long, but not
as high as the one in course of con-
struction by the Mccall Ferry
Power Company. 1t will be erect
ed at Conowingo, about nine miles
above the mouth of the river.
The project will be equally as
gigantic at the beginning as the
one being materialized at Mccall
Ferry. The Mccall Ferry Com
pany was organized with a capital
stock Of $1,000. Bonds to the
amount of $40, 100000 were foated
to provide the money to carry on
the operations. The Conowingo
Company has been organized with
capital stock of $4,000. Bonds
will be issued for $4,000, 900.
This issue is expected to meet all
present needs in constructing the
power plant and dam and placing
the power generated upon the
market. Arrangements are now
being made, according to President
Harlow, to have the bonds handled
by Philadelphia banking house.
The power to be generated at the
Conowingo plant will be 100000
horsepower, the same as the Mccall
Ferry plant. The powerhouse will
be constructed on the west side of
the river, in Hartford county. 1t
will be located similar to the York
Haven and Mccall Ferry plants.
The Conowingo dam, when com.
pleted, is expected to back water
to Peach Bottom, within few
miles of the Mccall Ferry dam.
This, it is stated, will afford navi.
cation on the Susquehanna River
from the Chesapeake Bay to York
Furnace, as the Conowingo dam
will contain locks for big boats to
pass through.
In order that the work may be
well under way early next spring,
the Conowingo company is having
the old boarding house property at
Conowingo remodeled into tempo
rary quarters for the men who will
complete all the preliminaries for
the operation to follow. The plans
as outlined provide for the repair
of the prerent "tail dam" and the
/, wing wall which extends in the
river at that point. The five
turbine wheels in the old paper
mill nearby will be utilized to gen.
crate sufficient electric current for
lighting and operation purposes
during the construction work. A
trolley line will also be built from
the scene of the operation to Havre
de Grace, to handle the material
for the dam and other construction
work.
James FL. Harlow, who, with M.
Fl. Houser, George K. McGaw,
Cary t. Hutchinson and others,
was a promoter of the Mccall Ferry
project, was formerly connected
with the Susquehanna Canal and
Power Company. Most of the
property secured by the Mccall
Ferry Company was purchased i'll
the name of Mr.. Harlow. Of the
above, Cary T. Hutchinson is the
only one connected in an official
capacity with the project which
they launched. The officers of the
Mccall Ferry Power Company are ::
President, H. f. Dimmock; vice.
president, j. w. Kirkland; treas,
VIM. N. Barnum; secretary, Harold
Ender; directors, Fl. F. Dimmock,
VIM. N. Barnum, Cary T. Hutch
inson, T. r. Bertron, Cliny Fisk,
New York City; William Barclay
Parsons, VIM. M. Candy; r. E.
Griscom and j. j. Holt, Philada.,
and Gardner M. Lane, Boston,
When interviewed, officials of
the company asked to be excused
from imparting any information at
this time other than the work has
been started and will be pushed
to completion as rapidly as con.
ditions will permit. There is much
speculation as to the real object of
the Conowingo company. Few are
inclined to believe that the Como
wingo plant will be operated in
opposition to the plant at Mccall
Ferry. Financiers of Baltimore
and Philadelphia say that it will
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