The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-20
Broad River Improvement.

Broad River Improvement.
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The favorable report Of the United
States Engineer upon the practicability
of opening the Wateree and Santee Riv.
ers to navigation should encourage re-
newed effort to secure boating facilities
on the Broad and Congaree Rivers, so
that boats may have uupbstyucted pass
age from the mountains to the sea. S.
a email appropriation having been
made by Congress for q survey OF Broad
River, Mr.. J. p. Carson, Chief Engineer,
under the direction of. General Gilmore,
OF the United States Engineer Corps,
made surrey Of the Broad River last
Winter, assisted By CTR townsman, Mr..
j. Reed Stoney. Mr.. Carson, at tho re-.
quest of Colonel. 8. a. Pearce, Chair
man of the Committee on Navigation OF
the Columbia Board of Trade. given q
summary Of hisieport, which. is as fol-
lows, Wiz = Sir.'
recommend that the river he opened
to Q uniform chanbel of .fvs yards wide
apd two feet deep from BRll alnice 20 the
foot of Ninety Nine Island Shoals, q dis
tance Of ninety.four and aiguarter miles,
at o Coat of S3T, 900; repairing the old
Lockha.t Canal 81, 600. a channal Ennn
Ninety.nine Islands TO Green River, N.
o., forey-siE and three-quagter mica.
$S8, 900; total $4,000.
ALSO. that for improving the Tiger aud
Pacolet Rivers $4,000 he expended. a
channel of this size will be sufficient for
pole boats of moro than double the pres
emf capacity of those now used. TO CON.
str1et a channel. 20 yards wide and 80
inches deep, suitable for steamers for
tho 94} miles without considering tho
difficulties TO be encountered on some of
the shoals where the grade is from 10 to
15 feet to the mile, sonld cost ten times
the above amount, which the condition
Of the country will not justify. The
population is "a TO the square mile.-
Cotton produced pes square mile S1.6
bales, and CT country on either side Of the
river which would be benefited equal to
81 miles.
Colonel Pearce has received fusther
information upon this subject, which
the following communication viii shov, !:
UNITED STATES ENaINEER's OFFIoE,
NEW YORK, May 6, 1880.
s. d Pearce, Esg., CAc::ynsiaa111.,a. az Ibuasittes
On Navigation, Columbia (S.s G.) Board
Of Trade: rs. fei h..A3
SIR--Eza reply 70 your enquiry OF i the
24th, nltin1o ! have to inform yon that
my report on the examina alton, Of Broad
River, s. o., was submitted to. the Chief
of EngineeFs on the 18th Of April. It
will probably be referred to the COM
mittee on Commerce of the House Of
Representative, end printed during the
present session of Congress.
Very ectfnliy, ls ID
Your obedient servant,
~ esf @. a. GIELMoRE,
Lieutenant Colonel Of Engineers, Brevet
Major General q. y. "A.
In o communication to the Hon. J. H.
Eyins, member of Congress, upon this
p1bjeot, the Chairman Of the COMMITTEES
says: :. eEt Il atTikes ma that this oandl,!ios,
does Justify and loudly calls ssSE acheaper
method of transportation for the upper
section of Che State believe that moth
ing would do moro 10 encourage the
planter than to give him his transporta.
ton OK his cotton and other productions
70 market for cne-third ita present cost
with cheap transportation larger area
would be pisntsd, lan6s would increase
ia vnlue and ernigrani8 would ba at
tractedi to cay nothing of tho effect it
would have. upon the dew velopMlent Of the
mineral resources of the State and Ia
giving additional value to timber lansa.p
The opening Of these RIVERS to naviga-
i0ns Is OF greater inpoFtaucs 20 the Slate
than even cotton manu- ufactures. sNilI the
State Convention, which assemblies here
on Tie LIST proxim0, take q little time 10
consider these questions which affect the
material prosperity of the State Z Will