The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-01-21
self to the development of Kanawha

self to the development Of Kanawha
river.
Questions were asked of Capt.
Hoag relating to this river which he
answered as follows:
ut will require four or FIVE more
locks and dams to reach the coal
fields, which are about 225 to $50 miles
from the mouth of the river.
"The slow progress of the work is
attributable to the inadequate APP
preparations by Congress, and that if
large enough appropriations were
made, say a million dollars, all the
locks and dams could be constructed
Mt once and in about three years the
entire work completed.
"In the Kanawha, the Government
directly built the first two or three
dams, but now the work is under the
contract system.
"The cost of each lock and dam on
the Kahawha river, and there are
eight, has been between $3.50, 900 and
$500, 900, while the highest cost of one
in this river would not exceed $780,
0OO."
A motion was then made that
committee be appointed to draft suit
able resolutions, and that the meet
ing adjourn until $3.50 o'clock, when
it will re-assemble to hear and act
upon the committees report. 1t was
adopted and the following committee
appointed; Attorney General w. J.
Hendrick. Chairman; Hon. Albert S.
Berry, County Clerk Q. B. Hill and
County Judge G. w. Gourley, of Lee
county; Hon. Theodore Hallam, of
Covington; Representative w. s.
Bailey, of Carroll county, and Squire
1P, Mcdonald and Messrs. John w.
Pruett, Lewis E. Harvie, w. II. Mar
ray, j. w, Gaines and s. F. j. Trabue,
of Frankfort; Hon. L. F. Mann and
Hon. E. M. Pryse.
Letters of regret that they could not
be present were received from Col.
w. G. P. Breckinridge, member of
Congress from this district, Col. j..
Stoddard Johnston and Gen. John B.
Castleman, of Louisville The meet
ing then adjourned.
Upon re-assembIing ait $3.50 O'Clock
there was noticeable accession of
delegates ia attendance, large mum.
ber of them being members of the
Legislature, who could not be present
at the first meeting. Chairman Hen
drick read the resolutions prepared
by the committee, when Mr.. N. p.
Gray moved that an amendment be
made to add a resolution that an off,
cial copy be certified to each member
of Congress from Kentucky. The
amendments and also the resolutions
were then adopted unanimously, as
follows:
WHEREAS, The State of Kentuc XIV,
by acts of the General Assembly, has
transferred and ceded to Uhe United
States the locks and dams construct
ed by the State on the Kentucky river,
the Licking and the Big Sandy rivers,
together with all the ground and APP
purtenances thereunto belonging, for
the purpose of enabling the United
States to oOntinue the slack-water
navigation of said rivers to the in
exhaustible supplies Of coal, iron and
timber on the upper waters of said
rivers, and
WHEREAS The appropriation here
tofore made by the Congress of the
United States for the further i'm !
provement Of said rivers since said !
acts of cession have been inadequate |
to insure steady advancement in said |
work and part of the dams, in their
present condition, are liable to BEL
destroyed by floods; and
WHEREAS, The estimates made by !
the department of engineers show ,
that the cost of completing the locks
and dams now in course OF construc-
ton, and the other locks and dams
necessary to provide continuous
slack-water navigation on these
rivers, thereby opening up to the
commercial world a territory unsur
passed in the United States in min
eral and timber wealth, the develop
ment of which will add millions of
dollars to the taxable wealth of the