The Marshall republican., 1911-04-14
MILLIONS IN COLO
LOST EVERY YEAR.
so SAYS LYMAN e. COOLEY, nv.
DRAuLic ENGINEER OF
CHICAGO.
MISSISSIPPI RlveR DAMS
Pro2osed Waterway Dams Would
Yield s~s,cooyoco Annually to
6tate Revenue ~ Utilized
for Power.

II the present watchdogs OF our
state treasury should suddenly be
slipped up on and told that eight
millions Of yellow dollars we're each
year dripping through their out.
stretched fingers there. would be a
howl raised which would reverberate
from the stone BLUFFS at Jefferson
City to the uttermust confines of Cal.
laway county. Likewise there would
le many wild.eyed state employees
,%unning amuck with handfuls of ochre
o plug up the aforesaid leaks. and all
q General Rulnboldt's newly.uni.
.Ormed minions, no, to mention Gov.
error Hadley's colonies. would be set
. watCh,L, until each and every yell
low dollar had been found. officially
jinchod. and sealed with the thumb.
nail mark of the pinching officials.
:ct that there are Just that many dol.
lrs slipping 10y the state is said 20
@ true. and no less a parsonage than
ie Hon. Lyman T.. Cooley Of Chicago.
1glnccr extraordinary. has the honor
2 10 Informing us.
Mr.. Cooley was engaged by the
state OF Illinois. the Lakes.to.the.Gulf
Deep Waterway Association. and 9th.
or ORGANIZATIONS 10 report upon
The method. cost. etc, of building the
proposed fourteen.foot waterway from
hicago to the Gulf. In his report,
low a matter OF newspaper history
and engineering ii cussion. Mr.. Cooley
briefly mentioned that dams would
have to be built NJ two places along
the Missouri border-one nc Jefferson
Barracks. and one at Commerce.
Taking the dimensions OF these pro-
posed dams on q large sheet OF paper
In u hand. and u blue pencil In tho
other. the Missouri Waterway Com.
mission. which for the past year has
been digging and wadlng-mostly
wading-into the water OF
the state, began figuring what all OF
this water which was to go oyer the
'.imps would do II properly %harnessed.
Tho figures arrived at eclipse ever
the automobile advertisements and
he Missouri egg permutations.
1t takes a lot to mold down a chunk
of water a mile wide. more or less,
and twenty feet thick, when Il falls
eight feet straight down. The result
IN electric horse power Is the trlnlng
sum OF two hunG ed thousand for
each dam. making .our hundred thou
Hun1 fnr Iwn-nHAlHH haln. as.r a.
point-which figure brings with II the
realization that there are thousands
OF manufacturers p''nfully aching for
: chance 10 pay s 900 per year for
Zach u OF these electric horse pow
crs, or horses power. The poorest
nultiplier In the lird reader class
cen easily ascerta l that four hun.
dred thousand horse power multiplied
by twenty dollars equals eight mil.
ion dollars, not eight million horse
1ower.
Here Is where the state OF Missouri
comes in-that Is, II has not yet, hut
could. All OF this much yearned for
Eight million dollars belongs to Uncle
Sam. who owns the navigable waters
IN the earth beneath and all that In
them Is. But the state OF Illinois has
voted twenty million dollars to Uncle
Sam to help build the f~ourteen.foot
channel through their state In ex-
change for the water power on the
Illinois river. Begin 10 catch the idea?
Uncle Sam does not much want water
power, being some Dowerful already
but might care for 0 few millions TO
held build a waterway which Mis-
souri, and other states concerned
seem determined to get.
Mr.. Cooley has suggested tina; the
two dams could be built and equipped
with power plants for ten million dol
lars, hence the Missouri Waterway
Commission is busily engaged getting
ell the facts and figures ready to
show the Legislators what can be done
IL they are disposed to build two
dams and present them to the United
States. taking In return a quit claim
deed to two power houses, which
power houses will yield the trining
sum Of eight million dollars per year
in revenue-all Of which probably
means no state deficits, maybe no
school taxes, and maybe. a cheaper
cost OF living In the dim but certain
future.