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PERMIT IS GRANTED FOR SANTEE CANAL Benefit to Entire State-Power Dam at or Near Monck's Corner Plan ned-Project to Cost About $5, 000,000. Columbia, Aug. 4.-T'he federal power commission has just granted a permit for the building of the Santee canal, joining the waters of the San tee and the Cooper rivers. The permit was issued to the Columbia Railway and Navigation Company, of which G. A. Gu ignard is president and T. C. Williams is vice president and general manager. It is claimed that this big project and its associated undertakings will mean the complete revolutionizing of practically all transportation in South Carolina. In order to bring about this objective, it will be necessary to dig a canal twenty-three miles long, to build an electric railway line from Columbia to Green wood and to put 11ponl the Congartee and Santee rivers a su cient number of barges ai light draught towboats to move the: freight rapidly. Each of these matters is taken care of in the project of tlt' companty. Tihe contstrtuction plans tall for not only the usual canal loc'ks and other port age f:Clities, btut for a power dam at o1 naear Mtonck's Corier and another power' Iahim on the Saluda river, at the mouth of Hear Creek, onl a line from Lexington to White Rock. All of the details of this enterprise have been takenx into conlsiderIationt and hIt ve been provided for. The proposed Santee canal v-ill shorten by seventy-two miles tle dis tance from Columbia to an Atlantic port. It is twettty-five miles frm the City of Charleston to Monck's Corner, near' Which place are the lead waters of the Cooper river. The Santee cail will have a length of twenty-three miles from Monck's Corner to Per guson. From the latter point to the junction of the Coiga r'e 111(1 Wateree rivers is forty-nine miles ,and thence to Columbia is flity-one miles, a total water route to Charleston of one hun dred and thirty-t-ight mile's. It wvill require $.5,000,000 in round numbers, to complete the entire project and two years is the estinate for the construe tion work. The power dtam and locks of the canal vill be built ol dry land, and an electrie line from Columbia to Greenwood can be built without the necessity of a tre:tle or a long till, for the survey follows the crest of the wv'at er shed, and ott otte side of tie water shed and 1n1i ole side of the survey the water runs into the Salida rivet' and otn tile other side into tile Savannilahl. Everything seems to fa Vor the miniuim cost of colstruc tion. f Results of Enterprise Thisis, as sketchily outlilned, a great under'taking. What would, b e the practical results? Whlat is then to justify the expenditure of this large sutmt ? In the first pice, oflicials of the company deelatre thtat the ino(llle (of the comtp:mity would amttply jnstify the outtlay. The distance from Columbi a to Greenwood h rail is ninetv-live attd one-11a'l t mile. Te sturvr t' t' proposed electric road showsa It mi Ie atge of 7(1.2, thus shortening this trip by twenty-five miles and givilg prom ise of throuigh itrains from Columbia to A tlantal. ThIis; woul meanl the suc cess (If the railrod project if it were indepenident of' Ither cons lda tions, but this untai kin - is to be considered lS a1 whol4e to und1ferstand' wha)I~ t it promlises. Laigasidie the consideration (ifI local freit between Chal.lestonl and ('hestern -1 t I I 1,.b Itl -I': #t(', . a. . t,:.1 tolumbi ~tand Iother10(, up-ttaiI~tte poilt itt tis delrt tat th 81o1tittmlls aln I' outld sav'e enough1(1 tot ofll nt a operation of~ this e lctif and water ai i m 'lvt Ier.L a in'u h Ch ter YorkI ' , tl anca511 Ist , nearion, Marhoo n('otef Ii'e rhc a to ct ena11II operatitn, the Saottet' milI Anches, ptaine ha vbsne,. , spidles ty inr yerinhatin fin mueans. furioperatiorweh'sav the shippers oftcntarn trem ety-seor kind live, badd- nter hunreacd touds~ -n haly d--seri.mhurna th. nlion.l remilliy dt olland a yor moved to 200 etih- industruis il o thre manu-. Lctfrd ab.odamt Gould eovr bohie ver t is Oute4Ioioito fficienca Why the Stay Maintains a Tefficiee "m a .111 cannet ie ga :.eed turert. Thou110sar -d dolls satisfactory scrvice !h were vILud at Uwc C much. feci when iL ei.me tc factry. T'V het G.of weyr, ued in its const as the n1 ufilactu reres Ho(0w do ,'bu select Fth for coten 4)eratio1 and1 wit the refiners. STAINDAR1 Refin market in Charleston, which is twent~y th)ree iles on an air line, or in Sa v'an nah. Hoth of those cities arie at prei(sent dependent upon0 steam power panat s tor their electricity. E-ven at a wholecsal e price of tw cv~ ents per kiowatt hiourx, this wouhl( be less than t he present, cost to make electrlicity, and at the same tiwe wouldI give the canal a revenue of something like S~>00;,000 a year. T1his revenue will enable the company to buib1( the enanal without charging toll upon vessels passing through the locks.This river of course, is free to navigation. This company wvill not standl in the wav l tf anmy other that may wish to oper'at'e barge linies, and the sale of' power will prevent any one boat line from having a monopoly or thle locks fa cilities. Waters of Rlivers Cooper river is tidewater, therefore salt. Santee river is fresh muddly water'. 'What, will be the effect of this fresh water emptying into the Cooper. Some say this should have he effect of propagatin gan oyster in dlustry whliich would~ make South Caro lina comlplete with Lynn Havenl. The small South Carolina oyster is nowv the mlost succulent of all on ihe At lantic (coast. Oyster spawn is heavier than fresh water, but lighter than salt water ,therefore oyster beds1 coul be made in the dual properties water. The surveys submitted to the gov ernlment show a canlal ditch 200) feet widle at. thl" bottom, amnd with a slope or grade of' six inches to the mile. This is suficient, for' the flow of the streamn. The na vigable deplt h is ten feet. While there is a rise in the ground between Ferguson and Moncks Corner, it is said that it will not be necessary to make any rieen cuts for the canal r v. asi dard Oil Com Great Experime eyl. 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'The Crpoe riei wotuly tie-a waterimu curat ue le th tre dege,t sn hono curv toitheint a-d ter anoher Therena will bempt maxt mum rande ofiles ith any ertainty which istonsiee excewllent upoh trle , n flaromady to ren oon prmTeae bcee powelnatl ~ear~ toee fin tht Sua radr isl~ oxpected virin0.ountiy tht promotert soam dis tane fvordiy foraune, fthe shealsi tionollo erndcouarbank wibetowrd~n the abtmns .ndxngtorandt fouda io.The rpoedr in woul have athi oin anwhle Theea will be atxi whChioninred excelent o I. e. oline Efficiency any (New Jersey) nial Department ta-k 13 to find conistently soline, adjust your carburetor d uc no other. Our work is iat this gasoline is constantly ard ; to" w e sur.e that you it whcrcvcr your husiness or you in the field served Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); to it wihen possible through the ;f specialists in our Develop. partment. tow Expert Guidance levelopment men arc at work still further to improve our s. These experts have devoted es to study of the refining bus. id the relation between the ics of the oils and the service icy render. They deal only in >u can't go wrong in folloing idance. PANY (New Jersey) ?soline obtainable IT PAYS TO AD)VERTISE IN THlE TIMES OUR BANK and THSEYPARAE THSEYPARAE Your uture A good future without saving is something that doesn't often happen, you know. Our institution is a progressive money saving and investing bank. We solicit the patronage of these whose person al attributes are likewise-and those who earnest ly desire to become such. You never regret money saved. There is no use to regret when it is gone. The Bank of Manning . JOSEPH SPROTT, President T. M. MOUZN, Csh.e. Motor ] AISOu grphical mnaps, that the low water in the S:mitee at F'ergusotn is fifty-two feet above t ide wat er at Moneks ( or nierI. Thelnse t\wo ) poits are t he tePr mIIini (of the canal; inl other' w'~ordl, the tw'o I rier rIun parallel11(, but1 1the San tris liftyV- tw fNeet eleva t ion overi the ('itnpir, wich' is a tidle wateri streamn t on 'htarleston to at pint sixty miles ini the initerior'. T(here is a three-foot Itk id at Moneks (Corner. Those van t hearid of this proposi tion of a tifty-foot tall in the wateri of the pr'oposedL eanal were fra nkly skeptical; it was plr(posterous to think of a wa ter poiwer' (on the coa stal plane oif Southt Car oli na. Ye t a power' of mat' nitinde has beeni idiscoverted. A.\ml when thle prm noter's learnted that there was a c'onside(rale power de(ve'l iJoment. possiblie, they applied to Congrtess for' the tight to d evelop the power. A fter' two years the petition has heen gran ted. 'The dlay was niecessitatedl by the fact that so many suriveys were necessary. It would not have beeni proper for the (canal comnpanmy to divert all of the water of the Sante'e river', and1 dlepth suriiveys were necessary, showing the flow of the Santee andi several dIepths. iultintely it was leatrnedl that the Santee riv er could afrord all the water requited by the Santee canal and yet lleave a larige volunme in the rivet', as rireii(d byv law. MothIs aind mon11ths have been speCnt upon01 suriveys andl soundings andl in heiaing objections1 ra isedl but the gov (ernmenit finally has dlecided to issue the perm iiit. TIhet e will he a power dam at or near Ill I lole swamp, in the vicinity of Moncks Cornet(r, which will have 30,000t hor'sejiwore, (due to the drtop) from the Santee to the Cooper river. Thi horsepowe. wil fnda ro.. >.