The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-10-24
WATER POWERS
Rival Companies Seek State
Franchises for Develop
ment Near Rapid
City.


Pierre, Oct. 24.-There are filed
with the state engineer, applications
for water rights on Rapid creek for
power purposes by three different con-
Germs. towit: phe Dakota Power com
pany, the Victoria Waterway, applioa-
tion being made by Geo. E. Flayvin;
and the Rapid River Power. Light and
Heat company. Several of the applica-
tions overlap the same stretch of creek.
IL all were developed a tremendous
amount of electric current would be
produced
Rapid creek, which flows like q mill
race, falls 90. 0S feet per mile from
Mystic to Rapid City, a distance of
about s. miles by the Rapid City,
Black Hills and Western railway,
which clings to the creek bank the full
distance. Already the Dakota Power
company is producing {, 900 horsepower
at its plant at Big Bend, Is miles
above Rapid City, and it has water
rights for two more units below. Its
second development would take the
water out at Biz Bend, below its
present plant, and convey it by flume
and pipe line to McGee's mills, about
four and one half miles below. where
it can secure a head OF "a feet. 1t
would take the water from the stream
at this point, and carry it a lie dis
lance below to another hydro electric
station.
The Victoria Waterway is a some
what novel proposition. Its promoter
proposes to tap Rapid creek some dis
tance above the mouth OF Victoria
creek and carry it across a bend to
the upper part of Dark canyon, which
would be damed to form a storage
lake. into which it would be run.
From here it would be conveyed further
on to get a higher head. Dark canyon
forms the lower reaches OF Victoria
creek, aud is one of the deepest, most
PERCEPTIONS canyons in the entire hills,
the walls rising perpendicular for sew.
eral hundred feet. The creek ben il
very narrow, sometimes not over 80
feet. This natural formation would form
an excellent location for a dam. The
reservoir would be s., 900 feet long, 700
feet wide aud would contain 900. 000,-
900 cubic feet, the entire fow of Vic
toIia. and the surplus from Rapid
creek emptying into it.
The third application, that of the
Rapid Valley Power, Heat aud Light
company. seeks permission to remove
the waters at a point a short distance
above the mouth Of Prairie creek. This
would be about a half mile above the
Dakota Power compaEy's second plant,
and would carry the water the full
distance OF the Dakota Power COM
pany's third plant, thence across the
bend, crossing Dark canyon SOME dis
tauce up, and finally discharging some
where neal the proposed plant of the
Victoria Waterway.
All OF the projects would involve an
immense amount of lock work, in
Gliding much ~tuIneling. One tunnel
ON the Victoria proposition would be
4, 200 feet long. This part of the
stream Tor which the rival companies
are seeking rights, is much the most
pvecipitous. the creek falling practi-
caily 1000 feet ia the 13 miles be-
tween Pierre Lodge and Rapid City.
State of Ohio, City OF Toledo, -.
Lucas County So
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
10 senior partner Of the firm OF II. j.
Cheney a Co., doing business in the
City OF Toledo, County and State afore-
said, and lhot said firm will pay the sum
OZONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case OF Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY,
Sworn TO before me and subscribed in
my presence this 9th day of December,
A. ID. 1856. A. w. GLEASON.
lsEALl Notary Public
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