The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-25
government NEGOTIATING
FOR EXCESS KEOKUK POWER

it seemed to be all that St. Louis
would demand for long time.
Under the present conditions OF
the business and development Of the
Mississippi River Power Co., the dan
ger of inability to provide for prime
power requirements because Of made
quate water is practically nil and I'M
der conditions as they will exist one
year from today, such danger will be
absolutely nil.
"Ouc present output and sale is ap-
proximately 100000 klowatt hours
month. We have equipment in
stalled for an output of approximate
ly 100000 kilowat hours. The out
put of 100000 kilowat hours in
cludes all of the prime" power and
quantity of excess"
Il am basing my statements" said
Kellogg, ION our continuous expert
ence since July /, 1913, when the de-
lip"SrS of power from the nlant was be-
gun Since that time 'y'i.aefv mas t5Sssn
a total of only three days when we
were unable to meet requirements for
prime power. There was another
period slightly longer earlier in the
experience of the plant when we could
not meet those requirements, but l
.Tin not &. a1lN ring that instance p
the reason that at the time our de-
velopment was not nearly completed
In the first case our pond in which
water is stored for emergency use
when the river is unusually low, had
a capacity level one foot below the
present capacity and two feet below
the capacity it will have, owing to I'M
provements being made, one year
from now.
In an average year based on
long study of the river, there would
be sufficient water to generate excess
or surplus power at least ninety per
cent of the time. That is, excess pow
err can be generated during 329 days OF
the year In many years there would
not be a single day when we could
not generate excess power" Kellogg
continued land, on the other hand.
there might conceivably come an I'M
usually unfavorable season, such as
the extremely dry years OF the early
COS when possibly for twenty per
cent of the time we could generate
no excess power"
kellogg had made it plain by these
statements that in the future the fuli
amount of prime power could always
be produced and in all probability
ninety per cent of the time some eX-
cess power could be produced. 1t is
this excess power kellogg referred to
in his opening statement as being for
sale and to sell which his company
had spent large sums in advertising.
Seemingly, the company must nave
considerable faith in the consistency OF
it's excess power to urge manufactur-
ers and municipalities to take it on.
The correspondent wished to know
in what degree of constancy the whole
or considerable proportion of the
whole amount of excess power could
be produced. kellogg explained that
an answer to this question depended
upon several things, including the
number of water wheels in operation,
the demand load as we'll as the
stage of the river. He said there
were too many variable factors to
permit him to answer definitely, and,
being unable to answer definitely, he
did not care to discuss for publication
that phase of the matter.
1t was learned that the United
States government and two private
manufacturing concerns engaged in
making war materials for the govern
ment, are negotiating for all the ex-
cess power which the plant can pro-
duce 1t seems a fair deduction that
neither the governmnt nor any large
private company will so to the ex-
pense of fitting up large plants to be
operated by power which is not rea-
sonably constant and that, therefore.
a considerable proportion of the maxi
mum excess power will be available
great part of the time.