The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-02-06

naWlla'S natufdI now OF WatSft ~ as w cav
feet of water the entire year.
It Is also intended to construed reservoir,
daming up Anthony creek, for the pur.
pose Of supplying the James River ana
Kanawha canal at It's summit-level 1an0 Inc
deficiency of the Greenbrier river. 1t 1s
estimated after supptyingthis summit-ievei
| there will remain of this reservoir 5,olz,-
| 496, 900 cubic feet to be devoted TO the ser
vice of the Greenbrier. The Greenbrier
going into the Kanawha, it will thus throw
into this river. per second, 400 CUBIC leet;
or, per day, 81 ,076, 34S cubic feet or ninety
days supply, nearly one-third the amoune
required.
These two reservoirs (DIeador lake ana
Anthony creek) place the supply of water Il Id
| the summer season, beyond 3 doubt, sum
cient to maintain navigation for SIX icet VI
water In the Kanawha river the entire year.
The estimated cost for these open dams anu
reservoirs of Mr.. Lorraine's Is 81 ,s79,172.
The effect of this reservoir system on the
navigation of the Ohio river below the point
where the Kanawha goes into that river Ii
as follows Allowing for like Improvement
In the Ohio from Point Pleasant to It's
mouth, distance Of 725 miles, these cham
| nels to have open dams of 200 feet there, and
| 6s feet depth of water In the same, with
six-inch fall from pool to pool, the discharge
| through them would be-per second, 4,4l3
cubic feet per day, 3sl ,sOl 900 cubic feet;
adding wasting over dams. Is, 942, 400 cubic
feet-total supply necessary for the Ohio,
Alta, 900 cubic feet. With two-feet depth
of water at Wheeling bar the discharge of
the Ohio river in "a hours, as measured by
MIR. Elicit, was 22S.000,000 cubic feet !; add
to this amount lOW-Water discharge of the
Kanawha river, 1860, 900 cubic feet; low
water discharge of the Ohio at Point Plea
SAINT, 44,640,000 cubic fcet-the total sup
ply necessary for the Ohio, All, IA, 600 cubic
feet deduct the above low-water supply, 344,-
64n, 900 cubic feet-leaves 10, 104 900 cubicfeet
ms the amount necessary to be supplied from
these two reservoirs, Meador lake and An.
thony creek, in order to insure six feet of wa
ter in the Ohio. Meador lake has, as we have
seen, 1922, 100000 cubic feet, which will
therefore supply this IS, 900 cubic feet
JAG days to the Ohio river. ........s
1t is thus shown that the Ohio and the
Kanawha can both be more than supplied by
these two artificial reservoirs in the mouth
tains of West Virginia with all the water
which will be necessary to supplement the
ordinary flow in summer season to give six
feet Of water for boats the entire year; and
This. too, at a cost of s., Cos, 900, making S52,
000. 0O0 to complete the entire route from
Cairo. the mouth of the Ohio river, to Hamp-
ton Roads, 1888 miles. What if it should
cost three times as much, when it can be de-
monstrated that beyond meridian Of 100
miles west of Chicago there are now 300,-
oOO. 600 bushels of grain which the central
water-line can bear to Hampton Roads for
thirteen cents per bushe, or twenty cents
per bushel saving over the cheapest pre-
sent route, making a saving of S60,000,0O0
in the annual production beyond this line,
and over the whole country of not less than
an annual saving of Sl20,00O,000. 1t can
enable the twelve grain-growing States of
the West TO place their wheat in the Liver
pool market at freight of tWenty-six cents
per bushel, being about nine cents per bushel
below that which the Baltic wheat can be
there placed and nineteen cents less than
Black Sea grain, enabling our country to
supply the English markets with breadstuft'-
deSideratum which has long been wanted.
The commissioners of the seven States of
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Vest
Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, who
have been commissioned to come OH here in
regard to the improvement Of the Ohio
river, met the friends Of the Virginia water
line few evenings ago, and exhibited the
most marked interest in everything rela-
ting to the completion of our canal to the
Ohio river In fact, friends of other schemes
now pressing themselves on Congress show
the.utmost interest in the central water-lne,
particularly those Of the Niagara ship'canal
and The Atlantic and Mississippi water-llne,
all concurring to show that the completion
of the James River and Kanawha canal is
no,c an assured fact, if not at this session,
certainly at the next session, of Congress;
and our people may shape their future
course to completed canal as III accom-
pished fact in the next five years.
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