Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-02
(Manufaoturezs Record.)

 electric power on the Little Red river of this state The officers of the company ale A. R.. Amos, president; F T. Stanfield. vice-p- -esldent; Guy A. Watkins, secretary and W. D. Dickinson, treasurer. |,
 For five months engineers have been at work making surveys and preparing report upon which the company has leen able to make an estimate of the value. Of the stream for power purposes. Dickinson x Watkins. engineers of Little Rock, have been employed to dc. this work. The engineers made detailed and careful study of the entire drainage area of the river, with especial reference to the conditions favorable to a large ,unoff from rainfall and ability to take care of this rundif by ample storage. Typographical maps covering the entire region, made by the engineering department of the United States government, were utilized, and with these maps and many weeks of field work they have prepared a preliminary report, now in the hands of the company. This report shows facility for large storage through throwing high dams. across narrowg gorged outlets.
 The sources of the Little Red river are in the Boston mountains, from where it descends in three main forks, essentially mountain streams, until they reach the first open basin at Higden. Here the three forks unite and pass in, one stream through
 fo ajn a broad. irregular shaped basin four miles lower down. From here the stream winds in crooked course between towering bluffs tn a second favorable site about three miles northeast of Heber Springs. At this site the bulffs rise abruptly on both sides of4-the stream to an elevation of 25O feet above the bed of the stream.
 The. drainage area of the Little Red river is 1,500 square miles. It is underlaid chiefly with heavy beds of sandstone, unlike limestone, imperv- ious to water. The waters of the stream are, therefore. subject to com paratively slight evaporation. The report Of the engineers places the run off at Al per cent. of the rainfall.
 Power Dam Near Heher Springs.
 A power dam at the main site near Heber Springs with a 150-foot head gives basin of 23,00O acres. This reservoir will store in g 20-foot avail able drawdown, 17,424 ,OG0,000 cubic feet capable of developing 22,670 continuous horsepower across a drouth period Of 1O4 days, and can be refilled three times a year from the runoff of the average annual rain fall as recorded for the last 23 years. After deducting transmission losses, this will place on the switchboards at Little Rock and Memphis. and at intermediate points in tEe territory. 126. .5S2. .OOO kilowatt hours per annum.
 By utilizing the regulated stream below with ifs additional watershed. and where another 76foot head :s available, making total of 226 feet, the output may be increased to 197.- S4O,O0O kilowatt hours, which places this. when constructed. among the important hydro electric plants of the United States, and which would produce a power considerably In e%- cess of the present market needs or its available territory. This excess while temporarily without a market, would by the incentive Of abundant power at permanent low cost act as a magnet in drawing new indus tries to the field, which would in the end be the real, paramount and en- during good furnished to the com munities which it supplies.
 The site of the principal dam is about three miles northeast of Heber Springs at point where the stream flows between two mountains or tombstone, solid ledges 20 feet thick cropping out of the bluffs. This sandstone is hard and Guite suitable for concrete. while cand can De readily and cheaply formed by crush ing it. The Missouri X North Arkan- sas railroad passes within two miles of the site from which spur can De nuilt without difficult construction to bring in materials and machinery Covering portions of .be basin m abundant pine. oak and hickory TOT cofferdams and forms.
 The report gives an alternate oe- velopment, which consists, when 1uliV constructed of four dams, as lndi- ,cated in accompanying map By tnis development the necessity or ralic road reconstruction, several miles o' which will fe required by the hishef dam of the first plan, will be aimos. wholly removed. This alternate plan contemplates storage dsm at Hle- den. where 65-foot dam will store 10 900 ,O0O 00O cubic feet or water available for use at power dam oi SO-root head near Hebe' springs.
 Deyelop 19.0OO Horscnower.
 With installations at coth Hlgoen and Heber Springs, the plant would develop 19,OOO horsepower. or all ontput of 109,O0O,O00 kllowatt hours ner annum delivered at Little ROCK and Memphis switchboa,ds. The com. plete development, with dams a pangbnrn and Halls Shoals also contemplates an installation of Ssooo kilowatts, with transmiss;on lines to both Little Rock and Memphis, ana naa would give net output of 1So.s45. .ooo kilowatt hours per annum. and coula be installed at cost of s1o5 per kilowatt. M. .or,o,
 This alternate plan permits seriai construction. A storage dam at HE den with mower dams at :Ileber springs as A primary development could pc
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