An Important Water Power Scheme.

An Important Water Power Scheme.

Advices from Canon City, Col., give details of a scheme by which it is designed to utilize the water power of the Arkansas River at that place. A. R. Black, the promoter of the new electric railway undertaking at Canon City, is at the head of the project and has formed the Royal Gorge Canal Company to construct a canal, for which the survey has already been made, and which will have its source in the Royal Gorge at the upper end of what is known as the Gorge switch, about one-half mile from Canon. It will be brought down the south side of the river (and in order to accomplish this a large amount of tunneling, fluming and blasting through rock will be necessary) to a point a little west of Grape creek, about a mile and a half from town, where a water power plant of about 4000 horse-power will be established in order to raise the water from eighty to ninety feet, the distance required in order to accomplish one of the objects of the canal, which are two-fold; first, to develop a system of economical water power for various purposes; and, second, to irrigate that portion of Lincoln park which lies above the ditch already constructed.

这样的安排不会干扰剑服d rights of the other ditches which get their supply from the Arkansas, and at the same time it will furnish unlimited power at a cost of less than cne-half that of steam. It is the intention of Mr. Black to supply power to any industry in Canon, or its suburbs, which power may be transmitted, either by electricity or by compressed air, in pipes, or by conducting water through pipes, where there may he a good tail race. Should the water power be used in Canon it will give a fall of 120 feet, which is ample for almost any purpose. Of course, one of the principal objects of the canal and water power works is to supply the power for the electric car line, work on which will be commenced in a short time. As Canon is situated ‘in about the centre of the great wool growing section, and as there is not a woolen mill of any importance between the Mississippi river and the Pacific coast, this solving of the power problem at such a low cost will, it is expected, be the means of large woolen mills being erected at this point. The money for the construction of the canal is already pledged.