The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-18
ut up a better contest. The game
las the only disappointment Of the

put up better contest. The game
was the only disappointment Of the |
"trip.
On Thursday evening the editors and
their ladies We're entertained at fine
dinner at the Grand hotel by the Keo-.,
kuk Industrial Association. Addresses
were made by Mr.. G. r. Joy, president |
of the association, DR.. G. Walter Barr,
who is at the head of the department
| of public relations of the Mississippi
River Power Co., Mr.. Richard Wash
j burn Child, prominent Boston attor-
ney and writer of high reputation and
who is at present connected with the
power company, DR.. S. w. Moorhead,
postmaster and veteran editor of The
Gate City, Editor H. W. Gittinger of
the Charlton Leader, the great humor-
ist of southern Iowa, and the famous
Jack Dalton of the Manson Democrat
Editor O. e. Hull of the Leon Report
er, who has served the association so
i faithfully as secretary for sixteen
/ years, was reelected. Mr.. Harry KEEL
4 Ter of the Russell Union was elected
president, and Mr.. K. F. Baldridge OF
the Bloomfield Democrat. who soon ex
.Tpects to be appointed postmaster by
! President Wilson, was elected vice
| president. The next meeting will be
held at Iowa City, the home of David
Brant, editor of the Iowa City Repub
lican, one of the prominent and influ-
entail papers of the state.
4 The main feature of the meating q.
the editors of southern Iowa last week
was the visit to the wonderful hydro
Istructed by the Mississippi River Pow
! er Company under the direction of Mr.
Hugh l.. Cooper. The party was in
charge of DR.. e. Walter Barr and
1 spent four hours seeing the great dam
and the colossus of power houses. The
Mississippi has been harnessed and
J, the result is titanic. Electricity gen
serated in this power house is now rum
ming the street cars and every indus
/ trial motor in st. Louis distance of
: 142 miles from Keokuk- 1t will soon
i light st. Louis and other cities.
! The immensely of the project does
, not appeal to one until standing ON the
i rim of the great lock you look down at
! the water twenty-eight feet below the
, level of the river in the upper pool.
! Then when you see the great concrete
dam with its immense spil,ways
stretching for nearly mile to the Hin
! OILS shore, the monster power house
. 500 feet long and 1872 feet wide and as
high from the river bed as the aver
age fifteen story building you begin to
, realize how powerful are the forces to
withstand the onslaught of the scien-
: tific man.
The power plant is one of the greav
est undertakings in the world. The
: main building as above mentioned is
500 feet long and provisions have been
made for another building of the same
/ dimensions whenever the demand for
: juice is sufficient to warrant 1t. The
T first building contains fifteen turbine
8 units which will generate 100000
g horse power. A number of the units
were in operation when the writer
e visited the dam Friday The damming
h of the Mississippi has raised the Fa-
J. Their of Waters above Keokuk for a
distance of sixty-two miles.
e The impressive thing about the
k Keokuk plant is the fact that the pow
/ er Will be available for manufacture,
= fact which differentiates it from
e most of the water power produced in
i. the mountains, which is used chiefly
j. for electric light and street car power.
j. Each horse power developed by water
d power supports, when applied to in
r dustrial ends, about five people. Two
|. thirds of the horse power available at
v Keokuk will draw into the Mississippi
valley and support one million people.
The undertaking is SO vast as to
6 stagger the imagination. and the only
!. way to get good idea Of this i'm
}. mense project is to visit it. The priv
!, ilege of inspecting the dam is rare
, treat, especially when DR.. G.. Walter
!, Barr, brilliant and pleasant gentle
> man, is along as guide, and 1t is trip
! that the editor Of the New Era will
long remember.
n A Visit Quite Worth While.