Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-02-24
Dam Will Require Year To
Build. - VIII Generate
10 To 10000 Horse
Power
TRANSMISSION LINE
STARTED; TO BUILD
TO LADYSMITH
Railroad Extended To Falls
Diamond Drills at Work.
Power Line To Iron
wood, Mich.

Work on the Big Falls dam project
is off with a rush and will be carried
lon with the utmost possible vigor I'M
til In ebig dam is completed and the
mighty Flambeau is forced to pay toll
in power.
In an interview granted the News
Chicago. general superintendent for the
L. Il. Myers Co. over the development
of this project. declared that. with Il
favorable season, the construction work
would be completed in about a year
The dam will be about 2.fCO feet
long and the maximum highth to the
top of the great structure VIII be sew
enty feet. Teh dam will have a soft.
head of water. which may be increased
to fifty-cight feet, and will generate
from 10000 to 10000 horse power.
Bacllwater of the dam will form a
great lake.
Last week, the News-Budget chron-
icled the fact that the work preliminary
to actual construction had been start
ed. following the sale of the bonds pre-
yiOuSly mentioned. and stated that Il
small force of men had gone to the site
TO clear the ground and erect addition
al cook and bunk-houses. The article
mentioned the first shipments of lum-
ber and supplies via the Tony & North
eastern railroad to within mile of
tile site from whence it was trans
portel the remaining distance by wag-
on road. and gave other details OF the
Inauguration of work on this long
talked of project of 50 much promise
to Ladysmith and Rusk county.
An indication OF the energy and
speed that may be expected to charac-
teriZe the construction of this dam may
be found in the surprisingly rapid prog
ress made in the few days since the
work was started.
Five shacks have been completed
that/will furnish sleeping quarters for
twelve men each Altogether. there
will be twenty-siX of these small Shacks
erected and eight large bunk houses.
The small Shacks. alone. will accom-
modate three hundred men, if neces-
sary.
When work started last week, the
Tony & n Il. Ry.. which was leased
from the John Helm Lumber Co. by the
L. E. Myers Go. to be used in hauling
material to the dam. was almost mile
distant from the site. by Saturday
NIGHT, 900 feet of this distance had
been cut off by new railroad construc-
tion and by the end of this week the
site of the Big Falls dam will be con-
nected by rail with the outside world
About sixty men are now at WORK
and the crew will be steadily increased
until over POO men are employed.
This number will be reached l{y May
and by that time the village OF Big
Falls will have a population, no doubt
of from 400 to 800 people.
Two diamond drills arrived at thu
site Saturday and men are now at Wofh
with them completing tests for tht
foundations on the east side of the riv
ar The wesi side had all been tested
No Golfer dam will be put in untl
after the ice had gone out OF the river
as the Flambeau is too turbulent
proposition in the spring to warran
the risk of such Il temporary structur
being torn out by the force OF the wa
ter.
A. l., Nelson, of Omaha, a regula
emplOve of the H. T.. Meyers Go. 10
wears. is the superintendent i'll charg
at the dam He will have the lates
and best of machinery to work wit
and the advantage of knowing the mos
successful methods of constructor
Machinery will eliminate much OF th
slow. hand labor heretofore necessar
on construction projects OF this KIN
and magnitude.
Power will be supplied by numbe
of small steam plants and no electricit
will be supplied from Ladysmith e'
cept for lights. rs there is no Juice
here to spare Mixers, drag lines an
hoists will each have separate stea
plants.
Poles were unloaded here Saturdl
for the power transmission line betWee
Ladvsmith and Big Falls, the constru
tion of which has already been starte
This line will follow the road 10 Ton
thence north and east to the site OF ii
dam 1t will take 60 days to put I
this line. The poles will also carry