Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — GIANT DAM RIVALS NIAGARA [ARTICLE]

GIANT DAM RIVALS NIAGARA

Mammoth Structure in the Tennessee Mountains Will Provide Horsepower Estimated at 80.000. Knoxville, Tenn. —Surpassed only by the Roosevelt dam and Niagara falls, and the largest dam east of the Roose--vete-dani. .is the mammoth new damjust completed aiTfiebah. inihe .nnuintains 47 miles south of Knoxville^ - •Iwelxe hundred .men worked over two years on it. Two hundred thousand cubic yards of .concrete were used. It is 210 feet high from surface of river to crest. It raises a mist 100 feet high'as its water strikes the river after flowing over the top. It is3so feet long at the base. 725 feet long at the top. 175 feet thick at the base iind 12 feet thick at the top. Six days were require'! to fill 'the lake behind it. which is ten miles long; engineers had figured oh 21 days, but a heavy rain helped. It will produce 7.500 units more of horsepower than the combined ronsumptirih of Knoxville, Memphis, Chattanooga and Nashville, or over SO OOP horsepower.—lt is almost identical with the Roosevelt dam in the West. The cost was over 51.000.000. region. It was built by and for the Knoxville Rower company, an ally of the Aluminum Company of America.