E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . er Utilized in Electrification ofCompanys Iron Mines on Marquette Range THE work of construction of the Dead River powerproject, situated about seven miles west of Mar-quette, Mich., and now known as the McClure plantof the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., was begun in August,1917, and was recently completed. The many and unusually interesting features attend-ing the situation, construction, and final completion ofthe plant, which is the largest hydro-electric project innorthern Michigan, have occasioned considerable in- total of 8,800 continuous horsepower fo
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . er Utilized in Electrification ofCompanys Iron Mines on Marquette Range THE work of construction of the Dead River powerproject, situated about seven miles west of Mar-quette, Mich., and now known as the McClure plantof the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., was begun in August,1917, and was recently completed. The many and unusually interesting features attend-ing the situation, construction, and final completion ofthe plant, which is the largest hydro-electric project innorthern Michigan, have occasioned considerable in- total of 8,800 continuous horsepower for use at thecompanys mines in Marquette County. Previously con-structed plants with corresponding horsepowers are asfollows: Carp plant, 2,500 hp.; Au Train, 500, and theHoist plant, 800 hp. In addition there is a 400-hp. plantat the companys Republic mine, at Republic, Mich. The completed dam, which is shown in an accompany-ing illustration as in the course of construction, is ofthe gravity t\-pe and is 500 ft. in length. The spillway. HTDRAtTLICKING THROUGH A Hn,L FOR THE PIPE LINE OF THE McCLURB PLu^NT terest among engineers, and the enterprise representsan accomplishment which does great credit to the Cleve-land-Cliffs company and particularly to 0. D. McClure,chief mechanical engineer, who had entire charge of theundertaking and for whom the plant was named. A de-scription of the work preparatory to the building of thedam has already appeared in the Journal} The completion of the McClure plant, which supplies5,000 hp., secured for the Cleveland-Cliffs company a *New Hydro-Electric Development on Dead River, Michigan,Eng. and Min. Journ., Aug. 17, 1918. is 200 ft. long, and a 200-ft. section placed 4 ft. abovethe spillway proper serves as an overflow space if ex-cessive water should raise the level to this height. Thissection terminates in a rock bluff at the south end ofthe dam, and on the north end a core wall 6 ft. higherthan the highest part of the spillway and 100 ft.
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