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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n feels doubljproud of, because it is the first electric street railway inSouth Carolina, and is strictly a Columbia enterprise.The Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & PowerCompany was organized on the sixth day of January, 1893,by a special act of the General Assembly, of the State ofSouth Carolina, and has an exclusive franchise for theelectric railway and the electric lighting of the city,together with the furnishing of power for industrial pur-poses. The company purchased the Congaree Gas &Electric Light Company, the only electric fight companyin the City of Columbia, and also purchased the ColumbiaStreet Railway Company, a road operating its cars byhorse power. It was evident that a change from horsesto electricity was necessary to give a satisfactory rail-way service, and more power being necessary also toextend the lighting system of the city, the company pur-chased from the State of South Carolina, five hundredhorse-power of water power, on the Columbia canal, at
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CORNER MAIN AND WASHINGTON STREET. into the Congaree, just at its doors, these rivers affordwater power unsurpassed in the whole South. Its railroad facilities are exceptionally favorable to itsbusiness prosperity. Ten railroads radiate from Colum-bia, giving it competing lines to the north, west and south;also to the seaboards of Charleston, Savannah, Wilming-ton and Norfolk. A great canal has just been completedwhich will develop 13,000 horse-power of water power.Therein lies future wealth and manufacturing glory forColumbia. This canal is recognized to be the finest inthe South, and was recently purchased by a Boston syn-dicate, which is also erecting a large cotton ducking millwhich, when completed, will be the largest mill on thesouth Atlantic coast. Another $500,000 mill is also inprogress. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT AND STATE HOUSE. an annual rental of,$S per horse-power, where they haveerected their power plant. The plant contains two Victor turbine register gatewheels, capable of d

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