Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-09-04 | Page 7 | Immense Canadian Generating Plant

IMMENSE CANADIAN GENERAT ING PLANT. A hydro-electric generating station rivaling in size the great powerhouse power-house recently placed In operation at Keokuk, on the Mississippi river, is being built on tbe St Iawrence river at Cedar Rapids. thtrf miles from Montreal A canal lO.noo feet long will take the water of the St Lawrence Law-rence at a point above the rapids and discharge it through the power-house which acts as a dam at the other end of tbe canal below the rapids The water drops thirty-one feet through ji twelve 1U.800 horse-power water j wheels driving dynamos attached to them The water wheels are the larg- J est In bulk ever built, and when the I station is finished 160.000 horsepow- I er wilf be transmitted to Montreal The water wheels are being built in ithe United StateB and the electrical machinery in Canada. No electrical j generating station in the whole of I Canada will compare with the Cedar Rapids station n size and there will be very few surpassing it in tbe world. Electrical World ! H