The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-14
100000 PROJECT
TO HARNESS RIVER
CITY OF WINNIPEG TO BE "CHI-
CAGO OF THE NORTH" WHEN
STREAM is LEASHED.

WINNIPEG, Man.-Seventy miles
away in the wilderness destiny is
shaping ends to make Winnipeg the
Chicago of the North.
At Little Du Bonnet Falls, on Win
nipeg river, northeast of the city, the
Winnipeg River Power Company has
begun work on what will be the larg-
est hydro-electric power station in
the world. 1t will cost $9,000,0OO
and will develop 100000 continuous
twenty-four-hour horsepower, which
engineers say is enough to drive the
wheels of all the industrial machin-
cry now operated in Canada.
The gigantic undertaking will give
to Winnipeg cheaper water power in
greater quantity than now is furnish
ed to any city in America. 1t is ex-
pected millions of dollars of outside
capital will come in to build mills
and factories. With it's railway facil-
tiles, it's unlimited market for manu-
featured goods in the rapidly devel-
oping prairie provinces and an abund-
ance of cheap power the city, it is
predicted, will become, in the next
decade, one of the greatest manufac-
turing centers on the continent.
The first step in the stupendous
project will be the building of dam
of solid concrete, 1000 feet long, of
maximum height of seventy feet,
across Winnipeg river at Little Du
Bannet Falls. The dam will create a
reservoir from fifty to seventy feet
in depth, extending several miles up
the river to the second Macarthur
Falls, and by raising the rivers level
will drown out Grand Du Bonnet
Falls, where the river drops thirty
five feet in four plunges.
Eight Fl, 1000 H. P. Turbines.
Eight turbines of 81, 900 horsepow-
er each, of four-runner, horizontal
shaft type, will be installed in pits In
the concrete substructure. The water
from the reservoir will pass directly
into the turbines at 10000 cubic
feet second. Scientific equipment
will protect the dam from danger of
ice in winter Two broad guage ice
sluices will permit drift ice to pass
around the dam and to prevent ice
Jams below a channel will be blasted
through the rock ridge over which
the river plunges at White Mud Falls,
several miles down stream.
To bring in the vast amount OF
material necessary for mixing con-
crete to be used in the dam, power
house, navigation locks, log slide,
fish way and other details of the
structure a railway spur thirteen
miles long will be built to connect
the site with the Canadian Pacltlc
railway at Lac Du Bonnet to the
southeast. Several hundred men are
now at work on this spur.
The power generated at the station
will be conveyed to Winnipeg by a
double.circuit transmission line sup
ported across country on structural
towers fifty-four feet high. A second
double circuit line will connect the
power house with the power works
of the Winnipeg Electric railway at
Pinawa, higher up the river. A
double-loop connection thus will be
maintained between the city and the
source of power.
Winnipeg river flows from Lake of
the Woods into Lake Winnipeg and is
100 miles long. Government engi-
neers,. who made an elaborate survey
of the stream several years ago, said
it held the greatest possibilities OF
power development of any river on
the continent.