The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-28
VIII Make Manufactures Exceed in
Value Of Products Even AsricuI-
turc in This Foremost
Farming State.
MILLIONS TO UNCLE SAM
viii Stimulate the Building Of Many
Smaller installations in Other
Rivers Of the Hawk
Eye state.

Iowa, while retaining It's proud SUI
premacy in agriculture, is about to
have the production from it's factories
exceed in value even its farm pro-
ducts, by virtue of the greatest water
power in the world now building on
its eastern border.
In view Of the fact that the engi-
neering Of the Panama canal Is ex-
ceeded in several important particu-
lars by some features of the greatest
dam in the world, at Keokuk, which
makes the largest water power in the
world to energise the biggest electrical
installation on earth, with incidentally
a lock that exceeds any lock at Pana.
ma, and the production Of deep water
navigation for sixty-five miles along
the Iowa stretch of the Mississippi
in view of these and other facts it
seems little surprising that there is
so little known about the effects OF
this gigantic plant on industrialism in
the Hawkeye state.
This one installation OF turbines
and dynamos will generate over twice
as much power as is now used in all
I! the factories of Iowa.
May Dot the State With Power Plants.
And yet the factories of this state
are turning out products each year
worth SO 1-3 per cent OF the value OF
| the farm products of Iowa. DIR. Cha
lpelps report values the farm pro-
| - "a
factory products of the same year
were worth s324,0s7, 900 by the hes,
! figures obtainable. With water power
available within eighteen months to
an amount equal to twice that now
used, one hesitates to make figures
for the future.
4 This will be the lowest priced pow.
er on earth-it will be sold cheaper
than that produced at Niagara Falls
4 But the indirect effects Of this
greatest water power development al
Keokuk are even more startling thar
the statistics Of its direct results. The
installations at Niagara have sc
i stimulated water power production il
! New York, that that state now has
1923 smaller water power plants
containing 6,513 turbines, and general
| ing Ss5,562 horse power-which |,
nearly nine times the quantity of pow
err used for manufacturing in Iowa to
day.
If a similar inspiration from this
Iaeokuk greater installation occur!
In Iowa, this state will be dotted al
over with water power plants in 1T
rivers so well adapted for the produc
ton of cheap power.
State and Nation Gain Much.
The legislature of Iowa probabl
builded better than it knew when
passed concurrent resolution ask
ing congress to grant the Keokuk {
Hamilton Water Power company tn
right to dam the Mississippi here a
the foot of the Des Moines rapids
1t looks like the great dam a
| Keokuk is the biggest asset low
| ever had in any one thing, or is like
/ ly to have in it's history.
Il The successor Of the original con
/ pany is the Mississippi River Powe
4 company which is building the grea
Il est of water powers with the larges
\ private construction plant on eartl
|! 1t obtained the last franchise for
n \ navigable rivers ths
u congress granted-and the usufruct
J the United States is probably tn
largest the federal government eve
: received. Including the lock. create
than any at Panama, the immens
I dry dock, the Improvement to nav
CATION and other things, the Unite
3 States makes nearly s1o,Oo0.o0o o,
= of this installation without expendir
cent