Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-05-29 | Page 7 | Snake River Dam

SNAKE RIVER DAM The Trade Dollar Company to Back P It to Get Power Engineer Johnston of the Chicago drainage canal having reported favorably fa-vorably ron the proposed Snake river dam Superintendent Joseph II Ilutch Ihson tells the Silver City Ida Avalanche Ava-lanche that work on It will begin immediately im-mediately The enterprise contemplates the damming of Snake river at Swan Falls some six or eight miles above I Guiiey to generate electric power for j transmission to the Owyhee mines and I mills The Trade Dollar Consolidated tuning company of Silver City is at 1 the head of the enterprise and will Invest In-vest a quarter of a million dollars In the same Willard White of Boise will be in charge of the work as superintendent superin-tendent and A J Wiley who put in the Bruneau dam will be chief engineer en-gineer Mr Thomas Johnston has been scoured as consulting hydraulic engineer and L R Stillwell manag I Ing director oC the Niagara Fails power I plant will act as consulting electrical i engineer I A rock crib dam giving a fall QI fifteen I fif-teen feet will tie put h and the power generated with turbine wheels The possible horsepower will be 12000 but bnly 1500 will he Installed at this time t The power will be transmitted twenty six milesto Silver City and distributed to the various plants of the company I and wIll also be available to all who may reculro power