The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-12-12


LITTLE Tennessee river was made
from its mouth to the Chilhowee
mountains, at the mouth Of Citico
creek. TO which point steamers have
some times assembled. OF the rs
miles estimated length of this exam
nation. 10 miles from the mouth
were found worthy of Improvement
and could be improved with COM
paTatiVe case.
The estimated cost of removing
the principal INSTRUCTIONS, located
at I2 different shoals. WIS placed at
SOB. OCo. The cbstructions, begin
ming at the mouth of the river, are:
Lenoir's Island, Coytee Oower)
shoals, Davis shoal, Coytec (upper)
shoal. Carpenter Island shoals,
Blankcrship shoal, Morgantown
upper and lower shoals, Creuses
shoaI. and Old Dam above Wild Cat
Rock Island. Niles Ferry and Motley
Islands. From the head Of the Mot
ley Islands there is a mile Of good
water to Towards Mill Dam, 10
miles. From Towards Mill Dam to
the Chilhowee mountains, is miles
BY river, but only about 2 miles by
land. In the miles there is a
series of rapids known as the sun
House Shoals, miles long, with
rock lodges running across the river
at intervals Of 100 yards.
II was proposed to improve the
lower 10 miles of the river and Sc
cure a channel 40 feet wide and 2
feet deep at low water. About
100, 0o0 bushels of grain was shipped
each year and it is thought that the
completion Of the improvement
ought to double the shipments.
On the Tellico river. the principal
tributary, large deposits of hema-
lite iron ore and roofing slate are
found and have been worked. The
timber interests along the river
were said TO be good, consisting OF
oak, poplar and ash and the slopes
of the Chlhowee mountains are
covered with pine. Abrams creek,
near the mouth Of which there are
slate quarries, is miles above the
mouth of Citico creek, the highest
point OF steamboat navigation.
In 1883, Major w. r. King made a
RECOMMENDATION Of the Little Ten
nessee river extending from the
mouth of the river to the mouth of
the Telllco river, an estimated dis
lance of 10 miles. This portion of
the river, with n few miles of Tel
iico river, were navigated by small
steamers during the winter months
whenever the trade would justify
them. The steamers usually went
from Lenoir's, on the East Tennes-
see & Virginia railroad, or from
Loudon, on the Tennessee river, a
few miles below the mouth of the
Little Tennessee river. The valley
of this part of the river Is describ-
ed as a rich agricultural region,
with large mineral resources. but
cut off from all means OF trans
portation except by river or expen-
sive wagon routes.
Since 1885, up to 1901. no work has
been done and no appropriation
made for the Improvement.
In his annual report for 1887, Col.
]. w. Barlow, corps of engineers,
stated: THE prospective advantages
and present benefits to navigation of
continuing the proposed improve
ment to completion, are securing q
safe channel for RATS and fatboats
and the small steamers plying in the
upper Tennessee river, and then IN
terests would be greatly extended by
opentnE UP an improved chanel for
n safe and economical line of transit
to the business centers on the Ten
nessee river"
The following commerce was re-
ported In the Little Tennessee river
in 1888, by the working party on
the river during that year. 222,OOO
feet Of lumber b. M; 46 RATS; loo
flatboats; 1926 bushels Of grain;
1850 bales of hay, and 29S tons OF
miscellaneous freight. In 1888. there
were sc, s53 bushels of grain; 100000
feet of lumber b. m; 2740,0oo feet
of logs and 492 tons of merchan-
disc.
In his report in 1900. Major Dan
C. Kinginan found that the total
cost OF improving the Little Ten
pessee river from its mouth to the
mouth OF silver creek, so as to ar
ford a navigable low water channel
of ample width and of depth of
21-e feet, would be $20s,5O5
Aolston River.
The Holston river rises in South
western Virginia and flows in a
southwesterly direction through the
eastern portion of Tennessee and
finally unites with the French
Broad river, IL miles above
Knoxville, to form the Tennessee
river.
A number of examinations and re-
ports have been made from time to
time. looking to the permanent I'M
provement of the Holston river, the
first dating as far back as 1880,
when the state of Tennessee con-
templated its Improvement.
The latest estimates embodied in
report by Major Kingman, of No
vember 80. 1900, were based upon the
Improvement of 142 miles. being
from Kingsport to its mouth.
This river is formed by the con-
f1uence Of its north and south forks
at Kingston, below which point 1t
has no large or important tribu-
taries.
The drainage basin of the Holston
as determined by planimeter meas
urement of the United States geo
logical survey charts, is 3,Sli square
miles, of which about two-thirds
lie above the forks" the remain
ing one-third draining directly into
the Holston proper.
Below Kingsport the basin is uni