The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-23

- Object-To utilize power gem -
= Grated by the Mississippi River ::
- for the benefit of manufactur- =
:. ers and lighting purposes. !.
:. Horsepower generated--i'e- =
:. tween 80, 600 and 100000. !.
:. Location Spanning the =
:. Mississippi between Keokuk. :.
:. la and Hamilton. H. :.
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Keokull Ia. Aug, 23.--The great
Mississippi River power dam, one of
the engineer wonders of the world is
To be dedicated here next week and
keokuk Is preparing for the occasion
on IA scale in proportion Ia its i'm
portance. II will be red-letter event
not only for Keokuk and its immediate
vicinity but for all the cities and
towns within a radius of several hun
dred miles. for the wonderful new
zone which is To he formally opened
Is expected To- minister To the millions
of inhabitants OF Iowa, Illinois and
Missouri. The governors of the three
states will he here and with other
appropriate To the occasion. From
: Chicago II. Louis. Hannibal. Quincy.
: burlington. Eort Madison and numer-
GUS other cities will come delegate ions
+, of citizens Ia join in the celebration,
The Importance of the great engi-
: neering project that has now become
I an accomplished fact cannot be over
$ estimated. II is expected To work an
/ Industrial revolution in three of the
h great states of the middle west and
viii be To this entire section of the
country what the mammoth hydro
electric plants of Niagara Falls are
To Ontario and western New York.
Second Largest in World.
n The dam represents the labor OF
v three Years and an expenditure esti-
mated at S27.000.OOO. With the single
: across the Nile at Assouan il is Tho
: longest bank-to- bank river dam in th'
: world 1t spans the Mississippi rivel
= for distance of 456S feet betweer
. this city on the Iowa side and th'
= town of Hamilton on the Illinois side
. The structure is built of solid con
y crete. The width is 10 feet at tn
, top ana AZ feet at the base. It's tota
>. height is SO feet, with 1l9 arche'
n spans and piers q feet thick. Eacl
70 spillway is 80 feet long and 81 fee
>, high and the steel gates above tn
spillways measure IL by 80 feet.
:. Almost as wonderful as the dar
itself are the great power-house an
the shipping lock. The power hous
is nearly 1000 feet long and III fee
high or about the size of the ordinar
:" twelve story building. Here are
be installed thirty specially designe
u turbines. each of 10000 horse powe
u The shipping lock, free gift ,fror
'e che power company to the govern
l. ment is 10 feet wide and has a Iii
of 40 feet The walls are 80 feet hig
and from To 81 feet in thickness
The lock gates are one million-poun
steel trusses operated by pneumat
machinery.
~ Power almost without limit will |
. transformed by the great electric ger
orators and shot out with incredib
force over wires To points as far sout
g. as St LOUIS ana as far north as Bur
ng ington. Transmission lines already III
IS operating from the dam To st. Loui
d. a distance of l37 miles.
r. Big Festival Planned.
Harnessed with electricity. IL
: Mississippi is expected to make OF u
towns and villages along it's banl
large and prosperous manufacture
OF cities py affording them cheap pow
ice and water transportation as we
"a Since the project was first taken I
H. the growth of the cities and tow
IN this section of the Mississippi Va
'ds lev has been marked. Scores Of maj
ufacturers have sought and obtain'
re- locations where they can be certta
e." of a cheap and never7failing pow
yill To run their machines. Hundreds
is- miles of interurban and city electr
on railways will be operated with pow
To generated here. Electric light con
III panies have been formed for even q
'ed smallest places along the river and
nnumerable other ways the dam
expected to bring prosperity 10th
ew entire section of the country.
These are some of the reasons WI