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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8149.650
Description
Miscellaneous Small Projects and Project Studies - Skagway Reservoir
State
CO
Basin
Arkansas
Water Division
2
Date
1/1/3000
Author
Carey Holbrook
Title
Fabulous Skagway
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />~ ~. '. <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />0269 <br /> <br />.:. 6 ..; <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />lowered over a perpendicular cliff more than seventy feet high. The <br />hydraulic equipment consists of four Pelton water wheels complete,with <br />accessories, and four 400 KW General Electric generators, 3 phase, <br />30 cycle, with a capacity of 600 volts each. <br />From Canon City there are four ways to get to Skaguay, which lies <br />on an air line not more than twenty-five miles away. If you are rugged <br />enough to stand the trip you can get to the plant by coming up from <br />below, first driving over a dirt road 18 miles to a place where Beaver <br />Creek leaps out of the canyon. Here at the end of the trail is the <br />. . <br /> <br />home of H. C. Clark, an old employee of the Southern Colorado Power <br />Company, who has lived in this spot forty-one years. He formerly <br />worked at SkaguaYJ and on occasions walked from the plant, down Beaver <br /> <br />Creek to his home, a distance of about seven miles. <br /> <br />At one time there <br />, <br /> <br />was a horse trail along this way that crossed and recrossed the creek <br />forty-two times in traveling between the two points. Twenty-two of <br />these crossings were over crude bridges thrown from rocky ledge to rocky <br />le?ge and anchored as best they could be. Some years ago a might flood <br />roared down Beaver Creek from a break in a reservoir, and all of the <br />bridges together with much of the trail itself, were swept away. If <br />you are stout of heart and sound of wind and limb, you might travel this <br />way today on foot, and it would save you a lot of miles. But few men, <br />and fewer women, have had the courage to attempt it in recent years. If <br />you did manage to complete the trip without breaking your neck, you would <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br />come out on top dripping wet from wading the creek. All "creek bottom <br /> <br />c <br /> <br />water rights on Beaver Creek from Clark's house to the plant, are owned <br />by the Power Company through the filing of placer claims. Growing along <br /> <br />. , <br />the creek near the Clark house you will find an ancient apple orchard. <br />
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