. Cassier's magazine . HYDRAULIC CANAL CONSTRUCTION, PALMERSVILLE HYDRAULIC POWER 39i ets each. In trains of eight cars thebuckets were hauled out to the workby small locomotives at a speed of 12miles an hour upon the constructionbridge just below and parallel to thedam. Here two traveling cranes,each with four booms 109 feet long,served the loaded buckets of concreteand hoisted them out to the particularspot where they were needed. So eastern Georgia. Running diagonallyacross this cotton belt, in a generaldirection northwest to southeast, isthe Santee River drainage system,with the tributarie
. Cassier's magazine . HYDRAULIC CANAL CONSTRUCTION, PALMERSVILLE HYDRAULIC POWER 39i ets each. In trains of eight cars thebuckets were hauled out to the workby small locomotives at a speed of 12miles an hour upon the constructionbridge just below and parallel to thedam. Here two traveling cranes,each with four booms 109 feet long,served the loaded buckets of concreteand hoisted them out to the particularspot where they were needed. So eastern Georgia. Running diagonallyacross this cotton belt, in a generaldirection northwest to southeast, isthe Santee River drainage system,with the tributaries of this riverspread over a territory of approxi-mately 15,000 square miles. It is here that the Southern PowerCompany is operating. The bulk ofthe hydro-electrical development done. CONSTRUCTING THE YADKIN DAM, SHOWING SECTION AND DOWN-STREAM FACE swift and methodical were the move-ments of the trains and cranes thatthe concrete was in place in the damwithin ten minutes after it was abundance of water power forelectrical generation afforded bySouthern rivers (as already noted) isthe reason for several very extensiveinstallations for serving cotton millsand other industries. In no part ofthe South is this more demonstratedthan in the Piedmont cotton belt,which covers the States of North andSouth Carolina and a portion of by the company has been along thecourse of the Catawba River, whichis one of the tributaries of the first transaction of the SouthernPower Company was the acquisitionof the partially-completed hydro-elec-tric plant of the Catawba PowerCompany, situated on the CatawbaRiver, about 25 miles southwest fromthe city of Charlotte. The drainagearea back of this plant is about 3,000square miles, and the hydraulic devel-opment consists
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