The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-12
POWER PROJECT
IN M'CURTA|N
Bore Hole Through the
Mountain to Obtain
FAN
LAKE OF 36 SECTIONS
Eypect to Furnish Power to
oklahoma, Texas and
Arkansas

. HtGO. okla. Sept. 1i--One Of
the largest water power projects in
the sUujhwea. Is contemplated in
the construction OF the Mountain
Fork river dam. called Project No
IA by the United States water pow
or commission, according 10 w. T.
iarimoro, secretary of the Hugo
chamber Of commerce, and execu-
five of the dam proposal.
with its completion he asserts, a
mower plant included in the project
will generate enough electricity to
furnish power within 300-mile
radius. including oklahoma city,
NuskOgoc. Ardmore, Tulsa. Wichita
Fan, ~ Worth, Dallas. Paris. TeN-
srkaui. Tyler. Little Rock, Fort
Smith, and all cities intervening.
col George W. Goethals has
promised inspection OF the site for
The dam. and plans of construction
engineers are being rushed toward
completion before Colonel Gocthals
returns from European trip.
More than half a score of inquiries
from large engineering firms OF the
United States. asking for plans in
order that estimates on construction
may be furnished. have been re-
ceived according to Larimorc, who
says eastern capital is backing the
power plant proposal.
The basin to he created by the
largest of three dams contemplated,
the Mountain Fork dam proper, will
have a 800 ,00O, 900 gallon capacity,
according to engineers estimates.
The average rainfall over the drain
age area IL As inches per year. ac-
curding tn weather bureau statistics.
Bore Through Hill.
The lake alone would cover SO
sections Of land. at an average depth
,af 15O feet The fan Of the river at
the point proposed for the dams To-
cation Is about 10 feet per mile. In
the cddlcs. and 10 feet per milo
through the rifles, according to the
engineers.
Situated between Rock Pile noun
tain and stephens mountain, of the
Mountain Fork river. the proposed
power plant entails the boring
through a hill around which the
water flows, in order that the nee
essary fall may be obtained.
The minimum flow of the river
has been placed at 100000 gallons
without rainfall for two months. En-
Eincors have expressed the belief,
1.arimore says, that an abundance of
water stored in the lake basin on
completion of the dam would guar
anlcc operation of tho powcr-house
in a protracted drought.
One mile below the proposed site
FOR the larger dam the river max es
In nrnln1 Stnnh n
mountain, reaching point below
The prominence, but 700 feet by tun-
mel from the dam site.
peustocks are to convey the water
from the dam to the power house
through the tunnel. Farther down
the stream are two additional loca-
tIons which the engineers of the
commission say would obtain
enough tail water from the power
house to run other turbines, thereby
utilizing the same water three times
within the course of mile and a
half.
:, Building Material Handy.
Nearly all the sand and gravel
necessary to the construction of a
dam are contained naturally in the
formations at this point, the engi.
neers say, and the blocking and
turning of the river at various points
may de done with the logs obtained
from trees which will be cut nec-
.ssarily when the river is cleared
tDr the dam.
One hundred automobilists have
promised to attend a scheduled cele'
hration at Broken Bow. when Colo
mel Gocthals arrives in this county
Larimore said.
Summer resorts have commenced
20 spring up around the site, and 10:
reservations have been made fol
building lots and summer cottages
A short distance from the proposed
dam site. the Scottish Rite order ha'
purchased "A 40-acre tract.