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BUILDING A DAM ON END. Unique Construction of Concr.-te on Niagara's Brink. restern Electrician. tTo build a dam in the form of a column, standing on one end, and put it in place by tipping it over into the water, is certainly a curious feat of engineering. This method has been adopted, however, by the commis sioners of Victoria Park, on the Ca nadian side at Niagara, to assist the Niagara Falls Park and River rail way. Ontario. in securing a sufficient depth of water in their joint intake in Victoria. The Niagara Fails Park and River railway is the electr~c line that forms a part of the Niagai,- Gorge Belt Line. az it skirts the top of the cliff on the Canadian side at Niagara. Fre quently in the past it has been troutb led with a lack of water supply to op erate the turbines in its power-sta tion, as it conLrols power rights in Victoria .Park. The city of Niagara Falls, Ontario,,takes its water supply from this intake, and there have been times when it has been .forced to call upon the officials' of Niagara Falls, N. Y., to supply it with water by means- of a line of hose laid across the lower steel arch bridge. All these conditions have been quite annoying both t> the railway company and the city, and the copiplaint was made to the commissioners of Victoria Park that the' water at the joint intake had been lowered by works of construc tion for power developmeht. It was under these circqmstances that the park coinmissioners consult ed Mr. Isham Randolph, consulting engineer for the commissioners. F61 lowing the advice of Mr. Randolph, the park commissioners have erected a concrete column 50 feet high and 7 feet 4 inches square on top of a tres tle that stands twenty feet above the ground level at the waterworks in take. This giant column it is pro posed .to tip over into the river to act as a dam, designed to raise the water level at the intake considerably. The concrete of which the column was made was mixed of one part ce ment, .t-hree parts 'sand and five parts stone. Its approximate weight is 20C tons, and every eight feet or so there is inserted a wooden wedge that has a width of a foot at the outside and which tapers to about six inches ..near - the center. The object of these wedges is to break the 'column into ~six parts as it falls. Running through the cen ter of the column there is a big chair tat weighs about 80o pounds, and tns11 hold the six pieces in wvhic' the column is expected to break to. gether. When prostrate the column Swill 'be about twenty inches above the ground level, and for this reasor an opening 'vill 'be left between the end of 'the dam and the edge of the river in order that any ice which may - be floated down stream in front of the intake may be carriedl away. The colEmn will :be left standirig for about a month and will be tipped by mean of jacks. The scene of the work i htar'dly 600 feet 'back from the brini of the Horseshoe -fall. -We-have know the be and have p1 them. THE C versible Disc Wise men settle their quarrels be fore they are begun. Some women use their jealous hus bands to make other women jealous. Those who have once loved can never be satisfied with common friendship. 'When a man becomes too shifEleSSI to give advice he has reached the limit. Most people meander down the path of life and never realize their own importance. A woman has brains to be able, without any, to do so much more than men. A woman thinks she is slender when she can get in her waist without a buttonhook. It i; awful easy 'to marry a girl when she has fooled you into think ling you are doing it. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. Assessment of Real Estate and Personal property for year, 1906. I, or an authorized agent, will be at the following places named below, for the purpose of taking returns of real estate and personal property for -the year, i9o6. At Newberry January ist to 14th. At'Whitmire Monday., January 15. At Maybinton Tuesday, January 16. At Glymphville Wednesday, Jan.17. At Walton Thursday, January 18. At Pomaria Friday, January 19. At Jolly Stree'c Monday, January 22. At Little Mountain Tuesday, Jan. 23 At O'Neall Wednesday, January 24. At St. Luke's Thursday, January 25. At Prosperity Fri. & Sat. Jan. 26, 27 At Longshore's Monday, January 29 At Chappells Tuesday, January 30. And at Newberry until February 20th after which time a penalty of 50 per cent will be added against parties failing to make returns. While on .the rounds my office will be open each day for the purpose of receiving returns there. The law requires a tax on all notes, mortgages and moneys, also an in come tax on gross incomes of $2,500 I and upwards. There shall be. a capitation tax Of 50 cents on all dogs, the proceeds to be expended fo.r school purposes. Dogs not returned for taxation shall not be held to be property in any of the Courts of this State. All males 'between the ages of 21 and 6o years ex<iept Confederate so! diers, or those persons incapable of earning a suppor: 'by being maimed ~or from any other cause are liable to coll tax. Real Estate is to be reassessed this year. Each tract or lot of land must be assessed separately, also state to assessor if you' have bought or sold any real estate since last year. All property must be assessed "a.t its true value in money" which is con struedl to mean "the sum of money for which said property miider ordi nary circumstances would sell for cash." Don't ask that your property be taken from books the same as las~t year. All property must be listed on proper blank and sworn to. Name of township and school dis trict must be given. W. W. Cromer, Auditor Newberry County. 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