The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
WARRIOR RIVER IS SIX FEET DEEP AT LOWEST POINT NOW With Lock Above Cordova an S-Foot Stage Would Be Available Year Round DATA ON ALABAMA
 POWER CO.'S PLANT Warrior Is Capable of Furnishing Power and Handling Tonnage
 for Entire District When
 Fully Developed

 was planned for the Alabama editors, who had been attending the annual con- vention of the Alabama Press association in Birmingham last week, stop-over at the powe, plant of the Alabama Power company was provided for. A slight de lay in reaching Cordova and emoarking or the government towboat Nugent. however, coupled with the desire of sey eral of the members of the party to maka connection with the northbound Ala bama Great Southern train at Tusca loosa, at S:4J p. m., made it necessary to abandon that part of the programme.
 R. A. Mitchell of Gadsden, who has large interest in the Alabama Power company. as the boat passed the power plant called the editors around him aa gave something of the history of tns company and it's present utility. The plant is located on the west bank .f the Warrior a few miles south of Cor dova, upon g high elevation that over. looks ths surrounding country. The openings to coal mines that contain both the Pratt and Warrior seams, both thick and valuable seams, lie within a few Hundred yards from the plant In speak ing of the Alabama Power company M1. Mitchell said:
 DATA ON PLANT
 Pending the development of the wate. power of Muscle Shoals, the government found it necessary to obtain power for the nitrate plants from other sources. cf pn to the location of the plants at Sheffiall was that the Alabana Power company then had it's extensive transmission line system in the state with a practic 1ilv new steam plant on the Warrior river some so niles south of Sheffield to which transmission line could be run in a comparatively short time. With that in View arrangements were made by tn. government with the Power company to install at its Warrior reserve steam plant turbo-generator for the government with capacity of 5000 kilowatts, to be operated by the Power company in con nection with it's existing plants, supply ing power over 110,00O-volt copper line which has just been completed to Shef- field. The combined steam plant will have a capacity of 70,00O horse power During some parts of the year the Power
 
 government with water power from it's Lock 12 development on the Coosa river but as practically the entire capacity Of the Lock F plant is in the service of the public at this time, some 90 per cent ot which is used for war purposes. it is not feasible to supply any large quantity Of power from the Lock F plant"
 He gave the following statistical data of the plant:
 Location-On Black Warrior river, 4t miles northwest from Birmingham.
 Type of Plant-Steam reserve
 Date of Construction-19l6-1 1917
 Lenth of Power House-122 it. in.
 Width of Power House--S5 it. 5 in.
 Height of Power House-S0 fit. o in.
 Cubic Ccntents-S50,0 900 GU. it.
 Boiler Room Floor Area-10,000 sq. 1t. Turbine Room Floor Area-33OO sq it. Coal Bunker Capacity-600 tons.
 Coal Storage Capacity-S0,000 tons.
 Number O. Boilers Installed-Six.
 Capacity of Each Boiler-1200 H. P
 Installed Capacity-30 600 H. P.
 Additional Capacity Being Installed by the United States-40,000 H. P.
 Number of Units-One.
 Generator Voltage-6600.
 Generator Frequency-60 cycles
 Generator PhaseS-Three.
 Type of Condenser-Jet.
 Source of Condensing Water-Warrior river.
 Transformer Capacity of Substation- 25,0O0 kva-
 SIX-FOOT STAGE
 As at present developed, the War rior river has 6-foot stage of water the year round with ample storage capacity to float as many barges as can be passed through the locks. F. F. Gatlin, Jr.. engineer in charge of the United States office at Tuscaloosa, stated during the trip last Saturday that no matter how many barges were upon the river at any one time, there would be no lack of water, and that they could be moved through the locks just as fast as the gates could be worked. Dam IT, the largest of all of the IT between Cordova and Demopo- lis, has two locks and it only takes 30 minutes to go through both of these. Dam Is has two locks. also. but the drop there is considerably less than at 17, and the passage is made in about half the time. At each of the other dams there is only one lock, and a boat can be passed through in from eight to 10 minutes.
 The river stage now, after several rainless weeks, is six feet at the shall lowest placeS and uuIaSs thara ha