The Hillsborough recorder., 1853-10-12


ei,eyille. aud he thence iafsrs the waste {
af water a5sre. Nav, this inference
il Wha, i called a nen sfguiffF, Coz, be-
low FAYETTEVILLE. there are no locks
aud dams, nor anything else 10 control
or improve the current Of the river,
while above there are and, IN truth,
before onr locks and dams were con
sirueted, the river could not be nayl-
gated af al. except in high freshets,
aud then RATS Of timber went down
But the Doctor Is estoPped. As the law
phrase Is. frvm using the imperfect
navigation af the Lower Cape Fear as
an Argument against ihe Upper, for nc
has admitted, in the very article to
which | have referred, that the river
h.,aw Fayetteville can be relied on.
He says il will make little difference
whether ooal Is 20 be carried ef and
.old IN the condition IN which il rais-
ed. or employed in creating steam. and
used in aid Of productive industry.
railroad communicating with a narigd-
ole arfam on lriieh dependence can Be
placed, Is still indispensable. What
streams Why the Cape Fear below
Fayetteville.
II, therefore. the river below Fay-
ettesille scan be depended on" ruth
om locks and dams, (as it can, except
in extreme drought. and rarely then Tor
so long a period as the Northern rlsers
and canals are closed with ice every
year, i il at all remarkable that the
river above Fayetteville can be depend
ed on irifh these Improvements. Al
low me To illustrate with familiar ex>
ample: Let mill dam break, the water
runs off, the mill stops replace the
dam, the pond fills, the mill goes again,
Now, ii is no more remarkable that
loaded boat should be able to run in the
Cape Fear, Nth locks and dams, where.
riihom them, IL could not 20 at all,
than for mill to stop without the dam,
and to 20 with il, There is really no
MYSTERY about our Improvement, except
in the imaginations of those who know
nothing a0uut our plan. Now, that
plan is, in truth, So 10 speak, nothing
! but succession Of aW ponds, and, in
!, stead Of the mill. we use the baat
These locks and dams do not create
but control the water; and the differ
ence, in a great degree. between the
Upper and Lower Cape Fear, is th'
:, difference between water controlled ant
! not controlled; and ne,e before hears
! ! it doubted, that, with proper improve
y ments, the lower river would afford al
:. abundant supply of water. But. m,
: friend, DR., Mitchell, says, "if the rive
! will carry a loaded boat though in DIR,
y weather, there will have been triumph
le Of engineering skill worthy of beln'
'e recorded am happy to inform bin
= that that triumph, in part at least, ha
Y already been achieved, Tor "loade'
u boat" did pass through several lock
y, last summer, tabout the time when tn
y. water was 50 low near Ellzabeth, !
OF Bladen, aud feel great satlsiactio
a in being able to express the opinion
ne with the most perfect confidence, tina
ne with good working weather, in less tina
'u, three months from this day, a loade
81 boat can and will pass from Fayett
VI Vile TO Haywood, distance OF ov'
fs' one hundred miles.
I. | will close what have to say upt
49, this branch ol my subject, By remark
- - ing, that those who are familiar wi
Nj N the line 1T our improvement, have |
=, doubts about full supply OF water !
!. . al seas0,is and. further, | will yentul
the REMARK, that not q siagie man
:. chaacfgf can be found, VIM is hmili
4, with the pper Cape Fear, that vi
:" risk hls character Tor truth Or pracl
cality uWn the assertion al a detlcien'
i. L ot Mater. mnen our works are dune.
er, Secondly. My next proposition
IN that the locks anu dams, constructed
:. our company, will be permanent, az
on will successfully resist the siOleice
all the harvest ireshets ever vet Know
nd in Cape Fear. Here, again, | rely u
Il. upon speculation--l appeal TO Jac
he N1w II 50 happens, that during I
spring Of 1851, there was the create
.ry freshet $50 consideredl known IN IL
Nv river during the last halt centur.
II. some OF our Ioeks and dams were th
tn up but NOT entrely finished; this Tres
n. et passed over them, without INJURY
Tho them. hut this Is not ali our work
far from time 10 time turing their pr
nd gress, have been submerged, and the
the has not been a slngie instance whe
hat luck or dam has Deen carried oit
m. materially injured, when II was COZ
pleted, except the lock at Jones fal
,ok and that Seas owing to bad Work +; a
nm We arD replacing It with 4 new q
or. ahIch We hupe to complete IN
lds weeks, with good weather. indeed
"a. believe that some oil our locks and ia
,ts have been entirely submerged t"el
fta OF thirty times, and yet, there til
No, Stand, "a triumph Of engineering ski
Nat What further 4 can add, bi way
,ck evidence Or argument, khown not.
aye haze shown iron iactS, tbats 50 sar
:. A ss.