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

The average nelghL dpoVe lnc AAvSi
bed is thirty-seven feet with the base
forty-three feet wide.
The power house as shown on the
Keokuk side of the river is 1,4O0 feet
long and 1913 feet wide, with height |
of 113 feet from foundation to roof. /
Water passages and water wheel
chambers will be nodded into It's sub
structure, while the superstructure
| is house of concrete, steel and brick.
into which will be placed the electric
generators, transformers and switch
f'boards.
i Water Turbine the Power Unit.
No water will flow over the dam.
| The water turbines, each with an up
! per and lower waterwheel operating
under water pressure and keeping the
electric generators whirring, is the
power unit, and there will be thirty
of them installed, each Of them indie
i pendent, with its own speed governor
and apparatus.
:! To protect this machinery from the.
floating ice, logs, and other river drift
an ice fender $500 feet long will be
built, curving in Ehoreward from the
power house and looking at glance
to be dam of cement. But food wa
| tiers will escape. free of debris, to the
, turbines In total the three main
, items of construction on this great
: work will be 100000 barrels of cement
/ entering into the 100000 cubic yards
of masonry and 1000 tons Of steel.
In this construction of the dam for
; turbine units, turned by the undertow
: of head water against the dam, the
: matter of ice in the river is Of no
: concern to the power company. In
/ hard winters the river at Keokuk may
e freeze over, but the rapids may be
r counted upon leaving the ice blockade
n no longer than four to six weeks
e Building a virtually still lake forty
|, miles up stream, however, could com
S plicate the matter of a renewed river
s packet service. But, regardless oil
IS such contingencies, the rivermen are
= hackers of the projected dam, and moi
e1 until a short time ago was voice
a heard against it.
Il Then, at st. Louis, arose voice
asserting that he had in contemplation
IF line of steamers 500 feet long ant
in of commensurate breadth, which
re (when they were built) would not pas
al the present proposed lock. 95x4DO feet
lie A hearing was called for at st. Loui
n before the Mississippi river commits
le sion, and at this writing it is the on
st factor in opposition.
Of Power is the prime factor in tn
ne dam interests. To get the power TIL
ag rapids will be drowned as an incident
e. but will stay drowned. One lock vii
M exist where three had existed before
We And above the dam will be mil
Id wide channel Of the river, safe fo
the largest Of river steamers, where 1
at lowest water John Stannus, years agt
A had crossed on foot on small wage
er Already it is announced that sal
ok of 10000 horsepower, to be delivere
a at st. Louis, 225 miles away has bee
go effected to three public utilities con
an panies, provided the dam is complete
og- on time. The initial installation ha
he called for only 100000 horsepowe
on which at first leaves only 40.0(
les horsepower for the local manufactu
ors ing cities within a few miles of til
be dam
ice Power hungry as arc tho r,y,
ad- towns, however, the needs of the rive
in whatever thev reaso,ahIy nav ha 1,
NC not overlooked, for the reason that
sHe the navigation Of the river, or in i
lna improved nayigability in the futur
eo- lies the club over the railroads. Ma
icy G. Med. Townsend of the corps of e
'ai gtneers long In charge OF the upp
Mississippi Improvement, has show
that the water rate on first ella
: freight from st. Louis to st. Paul,
ed, distance of 595 miles, is only for
ed, cents; a rate which obtains on re-
1870 shipments only sixty-one miles SOU
A of the Missouri metropolis.
of Steam power within 240 miles
ten keokuk averages about $50 hors
pa power year. In the sale of 60 0
ay. horsepower in st. Louis the horsepo
fur er year figure Is said to have been
ers, SIS. In the past everywhere the ma
'rk- ufacturing industries have gone to t
coal districts, cutting off the rail rat
at on coal shipments. Keokuk is reasc
.eo- ing that If power from the dam can
Did transmitted 225 miles for SIS, W
will should not the manufactures of t
mt country leave the coal rines for t
the cheap water power on the river, viii
the has the cheapest of all freight rat
und north and south and east by way
the the Ohio river?
of
That's what we're counting OF
ent said Frank LeBron, chairman Of I
will publicity department of the Keok
cof- Commercial club. 1--WE are COUNT
iver upon class of manufactures that v
the bring men workers to the city.
rty- ought to be the central manufact
rms ing site for the agricultural implem,
BILE. business Of the middle west Tod
be bauxite, the clay used In the manuf
and ture of aluminium, is carried from A