The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-20
wears. The question OF money could
be settled satisfactorily no doubt.
Also Aquatic Sports,

Also Aquatic Sports.
While the big lake will make for
an ideal racing course. it also should
prove popular for all aquatic sports,
including motor boating. sailing, fish
ing, hunting. bathing, swimming, row
ing and the like. No doubt there will
be one Or more big parks on either
side. and also delightful summer re-
sorts. In winter, with the water so
quiet and such broad expanse of (
wetness, there could be enough ice /
when the weather is cold enough to
supply almost the entire upper valley |
| 1t will freeze quicker and deeper there |
than in the river and as it Is to be SO
deep the surface water when it freezes
| should be clear and clean, making for
| the best natural ice obtainable any
where in the world.
There is no doubt about the dam
being a big thing, but right now it is
attractive to Quincy because of the
opportunities it will offer as an ideal
/ place for regattas.
keokuk-carthage Trolley Line.
The Retail Merchants Association
of Carthage is considering a PROPOSE
ton to build an electric line from
| Carthage to Keokuk and at recent
meeting held listened to the plans as
presented by Hon A. w. O'Harra and
Judge D. e. Mack A copy of the
minutes of this interesting meeting
gives the proposition in few words,
and is as follows
4 The meeting was called to order by
Pres. Ferris who stated the object of
the call of the special meeting. Mr..
O'Harra was called on to explain the
proposition of the Chicago capitalists
] with reference to the proposition OF
! building an interurban railway line
] from Carthage to Hamilton. The first
part of his remarks was along the line
of why he believed an interurban line
would be a paying proposition after
which he explained the proposition OF
the Chicago capitalist in detail and
said that they requested the city of
j Carthage to subscribe to the amount
, of $4,000, either in bonds or stock.
t The remarks of Mr.. O'Harra were
3
3 Mack was then called upon for some
: remarks relative to the same matter
, and he made some further explana.
e tions and suggestions. President Fer.
d ris made some remarks. also DR.. Rob
d bins, I. G.. Davidson, j. E. Helfrich,
and Geo v. Helfrich Motion made
by Davidson, seconded and carried
+lo+ ,;+;1n,, ,,rncopf with tho a11yh
: feel free to take part in the discussion
: of the subject before the meeting
: An informal vote was taken and il
:. appeared that it was almost the un
= animous vote of the persons present
e that the proposition be fully investi
: gated and that the r. R. and Trans
portion committee proceed at once
! and find out what can be done In re
: gard to securing the intererban line
= There being no further business tt
!. come before the meeting a motion was
: made, seconded and carried that the
= meeting now adjourn.
Lyman E. Cooley, of Chicago, thu
man who made the first surveys re
q lative to contracting a dam across thu
- Mississippi river at this point ant
= who wisely counseled against th'
y construction of wing dam as i'm
a practical, now comes forward with ;
~ statement that the transmission o
y power from Keokuk to st. Louis can
:. not be practically done; also MI
:, Cooley talks of a water power dan
- across the Mississippi at Jefferson
- Barricks An interview published il
- the Globe Democrat this morning is a
=, follows
!, A project for water-power dar
- across the Mississippi at Jefferso
Barracks and another at Commerce
about $40 miles south of st. Loui:
with locks to enable navigation, as
part of the lakes-to-the-gulf waterwa
u project, was exploited yesterday b
- Lyman E. Cooley of Chicago, the no
=. ed hydraulic engineer, who is one {
those leading the lakes-to-the-gu
. l1 movement Mr. Cooley came to S
:. Louis to receive maps and charts {
-, the river which have been in pr
- paration here under his direction fc
:, submission to the Rivers and Harbol
-, Committee of the House OF Represen
- atives. These exhibits will be deli
90 cred and explained to the Congress
tet ional Committee the first week
10 February by Mr. Cooley, W. K. KAY
- naugh and other waterway advocate
a. Mr. Cooley does not explain VIII
:. would become of East st. Louis al
~. ~ other East Side towns if dam We
- to be built at Jefferson Barracks,
-. how the Southern Illinois and Sout
- east Missouri low lands could be pr
- tected from the proposed dam at Coz
- merce. His plan, in general is sa
- to provide for levees along both sid
"a of the river. where the volume
m. water is increased by the dams. Tt
ha would also necessitate the diversion
,er the natural water courses from Il
na territory Immediately above each da
ew so they would empty into the riv
below the dams. His project, when
- ST. Louis last, was to build one of