Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-11-08
WALALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY NOVEMBER g. 1877

an unbrokcn range northWard to isolnted
masses to tho South. That canal conmu.
nicaton with the West should be sought for
among the head waters of Tugaloo river.
That the Chatuga comes down at right
angle as a feeder, and breaks through the
ridge, aud that its great fall gives choice Of
level. We arranged to make an curly re-.
connaissaoee, for it so happened that his
mind had been long occupied with tho pro.
jcct of uniting the waters of the Mississippi
with those of the Atlantic, somewhere
through the Alleghanies. But, as be wrote
mo, certain influence with the government
had procured his employment far away. l
was promoted and went to sea. MIR. Poin-
settle, President Van Burcns Secretary of
War, recommended the establishment Of
barracks in the South, to be co relative with
those at Carlisle, Pom, He had in view
the region immediately beyond Walhalla,
for the reason that being an apex of country
thcro is descent from it, in directions
through more than half the points of the
compass. The sources Of streams running
to the ocean in,erlook there with the heads
of others turned toward the gulf; their
waters have been brought together for in.
dustrial purposes. Hon. George G. Dbrell,
III. q. from Tennessee, Introduced resdlu-
ton for the improvement Of the navigation
OF lliwassee River, perhaps looking TO this
lnterHow. The lower portion of Hiwassee
is the most favorable, while the upper Of
the Little Tennessee is superior. A slight
cut across the Rabun Gap would pour the
th,rty-iSe miles of smooth water Of this
latter into Tugaloo River. Loss the ex.
penso OF single ailroad Of equal length,
would give tho Northwest q water trunsit
more efficient than dozen railroads. "It
has been proven on the Western waters that
light tug can tow barges laden with 80
0OO tons. TO move the same bulk by rail
road would require 5000 cars, 100 looomo.
tives and 600 men," Chicago would
become the enlrepot for Canada West, aud
all the great lakes, would soon be without a
rival among interior oities The produc
tion of the great Northwest arrived at the
distributing point, Augusta would be
competed for by the Brunswick, Dsren,
Savannah, Port Royal, Charlcston, and vii.
mngtou. They are ports of an immense
plain, extending from Chesapeake Bay to
tho Florida line, trayorsed by streams at
average intervals Of less than thirty miles,
practicable for steamers $50 miles to the
first falls of the rivers. 1t is tho extremo
verge of tho truo cotton region nearest to
tho great marts Of tho world. 1t fronts the
| ocean tho safest and the readiest to nav.
gate. 1t is tho most convenient for com.
mcrcc with South America, the West In
dies, tho Mediterranean, the Enst Indies
aud China.
The company making the canal and
slack water improvements would derive a
double benefit from tolls and from leasing
water power. To illustrate the inconceiya
bic profit from leasing water power by the
square inch, Gerritt Smiths, bought for
81, 400, yielded him an income equivalent
to the interest on $S00,000! The Passaic
Falls, located III this quarter, would not be
remarkable The proprietor, hearing |
was in New York, sent TO me to visit him
at Patterson. | found him in a house, still
unfinished, that had already cost $1l2,000
Ills income was such, that he allowed his
wife $1,000 year uliwouy. Yet, to
bring his water 10 shape, he had to build
the highest s,oncwall in the world, except
the one on tho Languedoc canal. An equal
outlay on these aloaIs Touit utilize thou.
and times tho water. Savannah River with
~" "hio"p's "ou'N ih'uisl Io"ci enough 10
manufacture all the cotton th9t Gnu be
grown in North America.
Southern spinners, pursuing tho true
policy, would put themselves beyond the
competition, not only of all exterior to tho
cotton region, but even of those at OF near
our own cities. by securing y suflicient
area, adjacent 10 their factories, operatives
would 90 home at night to their parents,
the renting of land to whom, would, in
great part, balance wages. Strikes would
be obviatcd, and since provisions would,
along this great water transit, be cheaper
than anywhere else, to a manufacturing
population, o.! for vide space around,
would devote themselves exclusively to
raising cotton to sell in the seed to tho
factories, to be worked up by the new pro-
cess, adding two items not counted hereto.
fore, oil and oil cake, which would 20 far
toward meeting expenses. Besides, the
hnl)ings arc better fuel than peat, and the
ashes afford superior phosphate fcrtli-
ger. A Northern company has recently
transferred itself to Georgia, that it may
operate under this systom. Georgia and
South Carolina will take the lead 10 cotton
manufacture
Direct answer to Cnlhoun's Mills p. O.,
Abbevil County, South Carolina.
Very respectfully yours,
JAMES EDWARD CALHOUN.