Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-01-20

down. so as not 10 admi, Of Sufficient depth fr the
purposes al navigation, besides the nencr OF
always epcoun,ering strong current in ascending.
But, perhaps the CREATES, evil arises ion the in
crease oil capital that in many install is necessa-
~ 10 Obtain the command OF water or, in other
words, to conduct such an va,ion above the
he'd oil the stream, as to give the desired auantum of
power, Tor the purposes IN view. IL often happens,
thai canal may be carried at the foot Of hill,
low level crossing all the Tavinrs at small eeva
ton, end letting down by single lock, whenever the
difference IN levels, aud the ground will permit for
comparatively small Blu, ,r the FIRST level should
DE continued until the elevation Is forty fifty feet
or upwards, above the natural bed OF The stream,
the purpose OF arriving at some favore spot for the
application Of the power So obtained, il almost al
ways Happens, that the canal be carried through
expensive rocky grounds, and over deep ravines,
creas'ng the expense perhaps three four fold !,
winch extra expense might he Otherwise applied To
proportionabie increase in length of navigable
nat: rom inns error, we derive much water power,
ana ii'iin navigation, because have capital To
accomplish all that rs desirable to be done even
the most economical plans"
(E) I'm extract from The appendir annersd TO there
port Of The Committee of Tie District Of Coi,,nbiu
10 NE House Of Representatives., on the Sd of .May
1922.
"The principal canals on the Potomac a,e at the
mouth OF " the Shenandoah, and ~ she Great and
Little Falls. They ,fford Is feet, 76 feet inches
and 81 feet inches fail, respectively The canal
around The Seneca Falls affords II desren OF feet
that nj Houses Fall, 3 feet They may he made 10
command The entire of the river, after reserv-
ing enough for the purposes of navigation"
Extract from The report before mentioned, IF The Prin-
ccipai Engineer Of The Board If Public Works IF
ITgitrio, dated 1920.
il the waters of the Youghocenv should be pre-
ferrrd hat is for the Western extension of the ca
nal,) then branch, called Deep Creek, will be the
| most eligible. There are several branches of this
creek, which form Junction aud compose stream
WHICH may do ioerabiy well to- supply the summit ie-
vel OF canal. This Junction is about two miles
west OF low gnp in the Allegheny ridge, which has
been long spoken Of as suitable point conn cou
between The eastern and western waters.
From this gap, the levels were taken both WAYS II
was found that the fall westward, to the point men
toned ON Deep Creek, was 20io3 feet The fall
eastward, 10 the junction of Crab-tree run Just a.
| bove Gen. Swans old MILL is $40 90 feet, The dis
lance 10y estimation, rather less than two miles
The fall from the ias' mentioned point 10 e mouth
oi Savage river is I366.7l feet. The distance not
measured, but believed to be about Is miles.
u appears, then, tina, the waters Of Deep creek are
1857 feet higher than the water OF ca ahree run "a,
Swans old mill, and, Of course, might be brought
through 'y tunnel, and discharged into the Poro-
mae; put :" case OF canal navigation, the tunnel
would he ON The summit level, aud the water OF
Deep creek would supply locks both WAYS
Inns creek lies IN the GIadeS, aud the from
IT towards the ridge, bur small for considerable dis
'"hce. think, therefore, that by driving up ourn
canal ~ Tar as the ground would perm,I, aud then
taking the shores, possible distance To the level un
the other side, that The tunnel would exceed two
miles IN length. believe a road might he made. -
cross the ridge from one point to the other thai is
from Deep creek to Swans mill, at drg,res thai
would not exceed five miles 10 distance
Deep creek flows through the Glades 10 10 IL
miles below The heiore-n,e niioned point aud Ilru,
win RAPID descent, as am tod falls INTO Y ouc
hiogeny From this Junction TO the national road,
nave seen Tins river but partially know, howe
yer, nom former surveys, that The crossing this
road, the wafer IS many hundred feet The
ese OF tIde-water, than the water at the forks of
Deep creek
! From the national road 10 The Falls, am acquant-
I'm the
fall is very great Above the Turkey Foot where
the three branches unite, which is about six miles
below the road, the stream incnnserahle TO he
msed as river navigation, except III ireshets and be
low the Turkey Foot rs too rapid aud dangerous
que To the foot OF The Fails the side OF
Laurel H'lI So that a canal and lock navigation
must he adopted from the fiIst mentioned pOint, on
Deep creek, To the last mentioned on Yougbogrny
am not IN possession OF data determine rNac,ly
the whole fall in this distance but, round num-
beers, there will probably he much over VI unde,
IUO IL e. 10 he overcome hy locks
On The Eastern side, fom The rnd of the tunnel to
Swans mill, the fall will he l36 81 feet, aud fron,
river, 1861 feet; making the whole Iockasc
l5O3.58 feet.
Cd Extract from he Report cfthe Hirginia and M
rytdnd Commissioners, transmitted By The G. o,e,poy
ofMlryLand Ia The Legislature Of that State on m,
| LIST January, 1928.
a" Deep creek is western stream falling into the
| foughIugeny river, aud flows, at that puInt iron,
| which the commissioners comm enced their uca.
| SUI emeni, within 20f feet Of the summit of the
dividing ridge, between the Eastern and Western
waters. " IL can be brought, Ly cut, within two
| miles OF branch of Savage River, called Crabu ee
run, at the junction OF iIs branches al Swans old
null, on This side oi tile maintains
" Deep creek is "a copious stream, will, hanks
nearly perpendicular, running through the soft r.n II,
oi the glades aud was, in the season when the,
| Uhe conmIssioners) examined il (suppused 10 he
The dres which has occurred within ilie memory OF
most men li'Ing) from three four fee deep and
| nj al,
one and half miles the hour. There /, "A narrow.
pass, called HOop-pole Ridge, through which ID, cp
creek makes MS way, where, by erecting dam iii
teen OF twenty feet bIgh and more lLan forty OF
hliy yards long, the meadows, above, may he ia
undated, aud pond formed three or four miles IN
| length, and half 4 mile IN breadth"
lhIs reservoirs II is believed would furnish snlcI-
ent water for locks, and canal, fcarred through the
dividing ridge by tunnel two miles long. especially
when recruited, as you desc+nd hy Big YOugiIoge-
ny the vest and Crabree rum on the e,st side ol
the ridge. The fact was not ascrIlained; ina from
The position Of The sources OF Liue Yuuglupeny ~
IS believed they might easily he conveyed lgio the
same reservoir" See also the ensuing Note.
60 10 The progress OF the debaes OF the Conyen-
iion Mr. Mercer WAS requested read the following
minute, which he Ind made, a: Nj Smiyer's mfor9
ma IOm respecting the summit ic,tl OF the canal.
g Deep Creek, al The Henppole nafrows, six aud
an hall miles from The summit Of it+ dividing ridge
which, u II proposed TO inetseci, furnishes volume
Of wafer, at the diest of The year AZ least fl
teen by two 'ect wIth average velocity Of The sur
tace and bolton Of The volume, of about one and a
quarter miles per hour. IL may, therefore, he as
sumed, ms the basis oi the estimate be made of the
supply OF wafer for the level of the coueni-
PLACED canal, that Deep Creek will, Mt that point
afford $500 cubic feet Of water every five minutes
nj winch iair allowing for the evaporaun alnoru-
non, ana leakage, OF The reservoir and descending
locks, 10 amount 10 Ie loss OF 1900 cubic feet during
every five minutes OF The day aud nigh, there will
remain sufficient quantity nf water hll, every five
minutes, lock OF Ten feet lii and Of the length Of
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