The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-12
JUDGE RICHARDSON'S
COGEMT REASONS

interesting speech before the recent
river convention:
1t is hardly necessary before this
convention to use statistics to con-
vince anyone of the importance of
the opening of the Tennessee river
FOR navigation from it's source to it's
mouth.
This work has been thoroughly
performed. as is shown by the en-
gineering reports, and more recent
ly by the memorial of this associa-
ton to the Fifty-seventh congress.
The two Inquiries that the rivers
and harbors committee makes as a
precedent to an appropriation by
the government for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors are:
First, is the work practicable? Sec
ond VIII the expenditure Of the
money by the government result in
commensurate increase of traffic?
That the through navigation of the
Tennessee river is practicable has
long since been demonstrated. Then
the real question is, does the pres
ent and prospective commerce of
the river justify the necessary ap-
preparation by the government to
make the river navigable from it's
source to its mouth.
The only fair criterion by which
to determine the prospective traffic
of the river is to find out what it
has done under it's incomplete state
OF improvements, and under It's
limited and restricted opportunities
of the past. The Tennessee river has
never had anything like a fair
chance to show its reasonable COM
mercial capacity The river drains,
as we know, seven large states.
comprising an area OF more than
$4,000 square miles. The report OF
Major Dan G. Kingman, govern
ment engineer, in 1889, shows that
the river with its principal tribu-
taries, forms a system of internal
waterways capable of being navi-
gated more than 1850 miles by
steamboats, and navisable by RATS
and tiatboats quite 1,O50 miles, ag-
greg9ting 2,4O0 miles in extent I
believe that the tendency Of the
policy of our government at present
is to specially promote the nav1ga-
ton of our internal waterways,
thereby advancing the interest and
prosperity Of the general public.
] is a demonstrated fact that the
value of the commodities annually
transported on the river Is worth
three dollars for every dollar APP
propriatcd by the government for the
mo ,ce,,t+ bos, Loor ooh;a,,a5 ,,nda,.
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