The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-23

firmly into the rock bed of the river
and will be practically nsonolith.
The power house will be 1,400 feet
long and 1913 feet wide. The substruc-
ture will be built of massive concrete
in which will be nodded water pass
ages and water wheel chambers. On
top of this will be built the super
structure. house of concrete, brick
and steel The superstructure will T
contain the electric generators, trans /
formers and switchboards. The height |
of the power house from foundation
to roof will be 1873 feet.
There will be thirty generating |
units Each unit will consist of YER
tical steel shaft, on the lower part OF
which will be two turbines or water
wheels: on the upper part will be the
revolving parts of the generators. The
weight of all these moving parts will
be carried on suitable thrust bearing
located in a chamber just above the
generator. Each rnit win have its
own speed governor and auxiliary ap-
paratus.
To keep floating ice and logs from
entering the power house an ice fend-
er will be built upstream from the
upper end of the power house and
! curying in to a junction with the
/ shore. This will be $500 feet long.
built of concrete masonry. To the
eye it will appear as solid wall
| fencing off the power house from the
river. There will. however, be large
arched openings below the water lev
ell, through which the water viii find
1 its way to the power house.
1 The construction of the dam will en-
tirely drown out and destroy the Des
! Moines rapids canal with its three
i locks. In place of these will be built
a single large lock on the site of the
| present lower lock This lock will be
both longer and wider than the pres
4 ent lock AS the number of lockages
! will be reduced from three to one, and
4 in place of the canal will be substi-
tuted a lake of deep water over a mile
wide and 40 miles long, it will be seen
that the work will result in great
Improvement to navigation.
In connection with the lock will be
built large dry dock for the con-
struction and repair of floating craft
There will be required in the con-
} struction 100000 cubic yards OF ma
sonry, 100000 barrels of cement and
1000 tons of steel.
The operating head will vary from
So to 81 feet There wi be developed
! and for sale 100000 horse power. The
2 machinery will be capable OF develop
i Jig 100000 horse power.
r The first long distance transmission
j. line will be run to st. Louis. AS the
power market developes, transmission
t lines will be run in other directio-
radiating from Keokuk and Hamilton
1t is expected that the initial install
lation of 100000 horse power will be
completed in two and one-half years
]. s. PoIIard's Address.
e j. S. Pollard of FIT. Madison was en-
g Enthusiastically received as he rose t.
4. address the assembly His topic wal
sFebruary Holidays" The patriotism
# of the bankers in time of war ant
e peace was the main topic of the ad
e dress, and 1t was delivered in mos
r pleasing manner There were numer
k GUS passages which kept the assembl
amused and the delegates gave tn
II closest attention so as not to mis-
II any of the shots which were deliN
q cred fast and on the heels OF eac
n other. That the address was enjoye
q was best demonstrated by the fact tina
- the delegates didn't want the speake
IN to quit.
n The appointment of committees an
IN business matters then claimed the a
tention of the convention.
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no Dinner Served.
Dinner was served in the large
- sembly hall. Tables were set an
- over $50 were seated at the tables.
= was a gay dinner party, everyone
40 sisting in the entertaining feature
~ The topics for discussion at the lunc
~ con were "Overdrafts,, Selection
~ Commercial Paper and Need
- Legislation to Enable Banks to a.
- as Trustees. These We're assigne
no to well posted bankers and were aD
~, handled.