The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-12
Removes Interruptions to Navigation
Between All Points on the Ton
nessee, Mississippi and
Ohio Rivers.
DEDICATED THURSDAY
Power House Contains Fourteen Tur-
blne Units Producing Total OF
1880 Horse Power-Govern.
ment Butt the Look.
Especial to The Gate ctty.l

Especial to The Gate CITY
CHATTANOOGA Tenn Nov. 12.--
An event which this city will cele-
brate November IS in an elaborate
way presages the time when there
will be an uninterrupted navigation
between all points on the Tennessee,
Mississippi and Ohio rivers. and also
between this section and the orient
via the Panama canal. After seven
years Of waiting, the great project at
Hale's Bar, thirty miles below Chat
tanooga on the Tennessee river, In
Guiding lock built by the United
States government, dam and power
house erected by the Chattanooga &
Tennessee River Power Co., have been
completed. Next Thursday marks their
dedication and formal opening, as we'll
as resumption of navigation on this
section of the river which has been
suspended for some time on account
of the construction work. Many SER
ious obstacles to navigation have been
forever obliterated by increase in
depth Of water for many miles above
the DAM
The celebration is attracting much
attention all over the country and
will be participated in by scores of
prominent men. Secl etary of War
Garrison will be present IL it is at all
possible for him to get away from
Washingt ton as will Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo, a former Chat
tanoogan; the house committee on
rivers and harbors; senate committee
on commerce. Governor B. w. Hoop
Ter, of Tennessee, will be present and
make a short address at the banquet.
Others accepting the invitation to at
tend include President Finley and
Vice President Spencer, of the South
ern Railway; Vice President T. G
Powell OF the Queen & Crescent;
President J. w. Thomas, Jr., and many
other high officials of the Nashville
Chattanooga 6 st. Louis Railway;
Colonel John Bogart, who harnessed
Niagara Falls; Nicholas F. Brady, son
of A. N. Brady, foremost promoter OF
the Hales Bar project; Adolph s
Ochs, publisher OF the New York
Times; Thomas Murray, vice presiden,
New York Edison company; presidents
Of chambers Of commerce and other
business organizations all over tho
) south.
S The Hale's Bar project is peculiar
{ looking at it from the standpoint o!
: the national improvement of water
i ways, in that 1t is the first instance
e where private company was per
s mitted to construct dam across 8
l. navigable river, or, in other words
where river improvement and power
development have been combined
The DEVELOPMENT on the Mississippi
river at Keokull, and in Alabama are
elother and later examples of the CO
operative policy.
The lock, at opposite end Of thu
dam from the power house, Is bull
: against a rock bluff, and has clea
! width of sixty feet. 1t is about 30t
feet long inside the gates. The lowe,
gates are ffty-nine feet high, thu
: highest single lift in the world. Eacl
leaf of the gates weighs 129 tons
The dam is 1000 feet long; average,
: in height ffty-two feet; is eleven fee
four inches wide at the top and from
:. ffty-seven to sixty-four feet wide a
: the bottom, according to depth o
;, foundation. The power house Is sixty
). six feet wide and S53 feet long. i
: contains fourteen turbine units, eacf
capable of delivering $3.50 horse pow
er, or a total of 1880. The power
> from this station will be carried t.
Chattanooga at 10000 volts over II!