The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-29
THE PAUPACK DAM
Vivid Description OF The
Immense Project
COMMENT BY PROMINENT HAW-
LEYITES; POSSIBLE EFFECTS
ON GROWTH OF TOWN.

ON GROWTH OF TOWN.
ut looks good to me-" said Mayor
R. w. Murphy to a Citizen reporter,
Friday, commenting upon the gi-
gantic $5,000,000 dam project of
the Paupack Power Company, who
have planned to turn the wasted en-
ergy of Paupack Falls into electric
watts and kilowats.
Il had a good deal of faith in it,"
he continued, for fifteen years. It's
just now being worked out. They
have acquired all the properties
above the Falls, and nearly all be-
low.
1T will help Hawley lot. If
they are going to have power to use,
there will be some manufacturers
here who will want to use it as well
as at other places.
They are getting ready, clearing
off the hillside and building saw
mill. They're doing business red
hot. They are going to build an
electric road from the Erie right
back to the woods.
From Wilsonville to Hawley there
is fall of 800 feet in the Paupack
River. Up the river from Wilson
Vile there is a fall of less than a
foot to the mile. By building a dam
forty feet high at the Falls it will
throw the water back enough to
cover about 1000 acres. That is
supposed to develop 10000 horse
power for twenty-four hours consecu-
lively.
7,OOO-ACRE LAKE.
I'VE will soon have a lake in the
mountains covering 1000 acres, with
a shore line of 100 miles, dotted with
| bays and inlets. Think what sum-
mer resort that would be. The shore
rights would pay if turned into lots
and sold for cottage purposes, even
if they never turned wheel.
Mayor Murphy waxed enthusias-
tic in describing the boundless pos
sibilities of the new enterprise
which is to make Hawley blossom
like a rose. He is the secretary and
treasurer of the Keystone Cut Glass
company, and as proprietor of one
of the leading industries of the bor-
ough, as we'll as it's official head, is
ever alive to anything that VIII
make Hawley grow.
, James Butler, Moosic, representa-
tive of the Paupack Power Company,
whose offices are located in Scranton,
| has done the purchasing of the prop
critics, the deeds Of which are in his
name. He has had many years ex-
perience in the same business, hav-
ing purchased the ''rights-of-way"
for a number of large corporations,
notably the Laurel Line.
According to his statement the
men back of the scheme are Col L.
A. Watres, L. H. Watres, C. d.
! Simpson, l.. Stillwell, the man who
! built the Niagara Falls Power
Houses, and C. A. Marcoe, all names
| of men to conjure with in the fl
nancial world.
$5,OOO,OOO SCHEME,
He said that it was the intention
of the company to erect dam at
| Wilsonville, and back the water as
far as Ledgedale. The lake will
| have an average width of mile
and a half. About 16 or Is years
ago a company came in here and
spent $4,000 to $4,000 in attempt
ing to develop electric power. Mr..
Butler thought the scheme an en-
tirely feasible one. 1T could easily
cost $4,000, 1000" he said.
Thomas Mangan, president OF the
| IldWICy Dam, "hSh oSSh ~ h'S NSSJ
| offices, said:
THE enterprise is not devised for
the destruction of local interests.
They want to increase the number
of manufacturing plants, and be a
benefit, not a detriment to the re-
gion. In buying up the properties,
| they gave every man more than he
asked. No man but got more than
twice what it was worth. The OBJ
ject of the corporation is not to do
any damage to any local industry.
We don't want to cripple any in
dustry in the town. The people
who are back of the project have the
welfare and progress of the com
munity at heart"
! Mr.. Mangan was quite anxious to
make it clear that the Company, in
which it is said he is financially in
terested, would be help, instead of
hindrance to Hawley, as many are
declaring it was bound to be.
AMERICAN LABOR.
When asked as to whether they
would employ American labor on the
| job, he said: "Pd like to see nothing
else. But where in the world would
you get American labor? I'd have
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