The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-13

Niagara, building out 800 feet into /
millrace moving seventeen miles an
hour and ranging from twenty-five to
twenty-six feet in depth. He put in
the Mccall Ferry dam in the Suse-
quehanna river, 800 feet long, sixty
fleet high, and developing $4,000 /
horsepower Only these two examples +
are sufficient for Keokuk, where at /
the site of the Keokuk dam there is
only seven feet of water averaging
/ flow of two and half miles an hour.
| In building the Keokuk dam approx
| imately forty feet high, with the inn
pounded water backing up for forty
| miles, Keokuk and Hamilton will
| escape appreciable inundation of their
corporate limits. But above those
stwo cities damages are to accrue, to
which end law has been put through
in Iowa and in Illinois giving the CON-
pany the right Of eminent domain on
both sides of the river.
4 Following this act the building COM
4 pany has canyassed every property
holder that is to be affected and has
secured options on SO per cent of the
i riparian rights that are to be en-
i croached. The largest cost involved
will be the engulfing of the tracks of
} the Burlington railroad on the Iowa
side. But the railroad company is in
accord with the movement and for the
! most part this work will mean cutting
into the bluffs higher up and estab-
fishing more favorable grade than
the road now has.
l From a picturesque point of view
this backwater drowning the rapids
also will drown out the grave of Jo-
seph Smith in the old Mormon GEM
j t etery at Nauvoo. It has been sug-
i gested that some remnant of his fol-
5 lowing may have the remains OF the
l. prophet taken to some other spot for
I. reinterment. Montrose, an Iowa town
d few miles UP the river, will have
i, some of its business section flooded
= but Montrose, too wants the dam as
: does every other town affected by It's
3 flood waters. Under these conditions
If it is believed that 81 ,000,000fto $1,000,
S. 900 will satisfy all claims under thu
h company's rights of emilent domain
lie Giant Bluffs Much in Evidence.
g OF the dam perspective view 0
le the mechanical drawing in place II
the river is fairly representative. saw
lie that the man who made the technica
as drawing of the dam mas not seen tn
ed highly material giant bluffs that cor
M1;v "a nv, !,
is Iowa side these bluffs rise almos
he sheer from the river to height c
A. $50 feet or more. At Hamilton, on tn
m Illinois shore, considerable low lyin
Ia bottom lands will be flooded, avera,
nd ing $50 an acre. perhaps, as the farm
nd ers on this low shelf of loan hay
er risked little in house and barn bull
& ing, owing to the river floods.
RS At present work now going on ;
zee Hamilton largely is preparatory.
- deep cut has been made in the uppt
limestone to the solid, slate blue roc
upon which descending meteor of
billion pounds weight likely would {
at to smash. Clearing the quarry of 6
ex- average of ten feet of soil is in pro
in construction of an artificial shelf {
or the hillside on which rail switch
tho may be brought to storehouse doc
en- and over which carrying crane may
,er installed A neat summer residen
ers has been bought to serve as hea
ne. quarters for D. P Cooper, superi
,ay tendent of the Illinois shore constru
>rJy cfn
out to hold 10000 barrels is completed a.
for it's proportions are evident to the Ke
kukian as he looks across the vail
lid when the sun is ,ouching up its g
kad vanized iron sides and roof.
ack
ono Rivers Floor of Solid Limestone.
800 With the cement shelter provide
the two rock crushers are to be Unstable
hat each of them capable Of crushing
lew tons an hour into three-inch stone.
ore sand pump will bring $4,000 yards
ON sand from the river bottom in t
He hours The cement mixers are cal
gan BILE of producing 1900 yards a di
central compressor plant will Fl
ork, nish power for operating carrie
to shovels, and the equipment for wo
!, is ing.
no From shore to shore the river
any this point-half a mile above the X
kuk river bridge--has a floor of SO
THIS limestone into which the cement "
lid be locked without any reinforcen
aust of steel. The upstream face of
ON dam is to be vertical Downstream
water will descend over compou
curve which at the bottom sends
Ill. floods sharply out from. the foot
an the dam.
oper In the building of this solid GENE
alter structure, its monolithic character v
has be completed piecemeal. First a
ime- ferdam is built to shut out the ri
Des and is pumped dry. In crossing
ulti- river with the dam length of foi
rock six feet will be moulded in iron for
-ork- and bolted together and removal
ging Then section of thirty feet will
low left open between the first unit {