The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-13
KEoKuK AND THE WATER pow

KEoKuK AND THE WATER pow
ER.
The newspapers round about
abound in references to Keokuk's good
q fortune IN securing development 0;
tie water power. Tie 81. Louis Globe
I Democrat took occasion N it's issue
Of yesterday to remark eiitoriaIly..
II is said that the big dam al Keo-
kuk 10 supply St Louis and other
places Eith electric power, light and
heat viii be completed By July 1. 1912.
4 That sill be N good time for grant
illumination when the Panama canal
( i finished
The Kewanee star-Courier has
this reference 10 Keokuk and It's feei-
ngs:
/ KeoEuk is radiant over her riycT
/ Improvement project which has jus.
been successfully financed. ke1kuk
I now knows how kewanee feels wheT
we get good factory news
The Quincy Wing INDUCES in a DIT
7 Of pleasantly to the effect that mo
wonder Aeokuk is getting chesty,
when 1t can lay claim 10 being TIE
largest city on the river ny a dam
site. and follows it up with the fol-
lowing
Ground vas broken yesterday al
| Reokuk for the frame office to be
used by the men IN charge of the
construction Of the proposed great
dam, and The Gate City gives TIE mat
ter four columns of graee. This re-
calls the citation Of the man who found
a horseshoe and hailed ii as the be
ginning Of a prosperous livery bust
ness"
In concluding news item giving
details Of the project the La Harpe
Quill says:
The abundance OF electrical power
I furnished as cheaDly as Il will be,
should, and no doubt will, reyolu-
tionize the manufacturing interests OF
/ Keokuk, and bring many more fac
tories to the town nearest the dam
1 site and 1t would not surprise us to
I see in few years some of the vari-
Gus interurban lines which the news
/ pepers have built in this vicinity be
come realities"
/ Although an inland city Waterloo
has watched with interest Keokuk' g
efforts to develop and utilize the lat
ent possibilities in the Mississippi
river here. It's present admirable at.
titude toward this city and the result
o. those efforts is reflected in the fol-
lowing. editorial utterance from the
columns of the Reporter published
there:
1T is announced syndicate OF New
York and Boston capitalists will
finance the great water power project
keol.uk has been expecting for sev
eral years. The estimated cost OF
the work is s15.000000, and the plant
is expected tt generate 100000 horse
power. The dam is to be thirty-sever
feet high and will be built seventy
feet into the solid rock of the river
bottom. Keokuk, of course. is some
5 what elated over the favorable termin
: alton of years of hard work in promot
. ing this great enterprise. and vel
may she be. ANY city anywhere woult
consider itself fortunate to be selected
as the site of such a wonderful enter
r prise, and all of Iowa can share il
Q the satisfaction that Keokuk feel:
over the good fortune"
Davenport has fellow feeling fo
: Keokuk by reason Of the fact that i
:. Is soon to have water power of it
own. Under the heading "Keokul
and Davenport" the Democrat prints
the following interesting article:
Let's be calm urges The Keokul
: Daily Gate City, in the extra edition
t which it issued with headlines clea
n across the front page, announcin,
2 that Keokuk's dream of a half cen
: fury had been realized in the financ
ing OF the city's big power project.
"Keokuk is to be excused, since Sat
J. urday, If some one has to sit on tn,
safety valve to keep her enthusiasm
from blowing off The developpien
: of the great water power that hat
I been embarrassed in the Keokuk rap
r IDS since long before the time tina
e zebnlon Pike found them barring hi
j. way up the river some 105 years ago
i will make Keokuk one of the biz
spots on the map in the next few
e years
And it should not be forgotten tina
davenport lies in exactly the sam.
position on the Davenport-LeCIair,
!, rapids that Keokuk does at the foo
: of the rapids 1G0-odd miles farthe
down the river. The present waite
q power project here is not as big al
Keokuk s--but there is no reason VIII,
It should not develop into as big
project in the future There is moth
ing in the present project here Il
prevent the future damn1ing Of tn,
river to increase its head to hundred
OF thousands Of horse power, and it Il
fair TO presume that our smaller proi
t. ect is the opening wedge 10 tn,
d greater
It Heokuk's water power dam is to b.
g completed within thirty months
r by that time it is hoped that Day
: EXPORT VIII also be delivering electri
n power
/ A Generous Verdict.
It Alex Miller in Washington Demo