Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1909-12-09
TallahatchIs Drainage Plans.

the reports of the chief engineer and
consulting engineers Of that district
These engineers have been in consul
tation for several weeks, carefully
weighing the respective merits Of a
number of plans for the treatment of
the Coldwater- -Tallahatchie basin, and
have finally arrived at a unanimous
. conclusion as to the general solution,
leaving the minor details of the work
to be decided after surveys IN greater
detail have been made.
i In order to expedite the solution, in
the least possible time, Of the intri-
cate problems involved in the hand
ling Of the hill waters which enter
the district, two consulting engineers
were called iii to cooperate with the
district engineers. Upon the recon-
mendation of the chief engineer, the
services of Mr.. Arthur =. Morgan and
General @. HI. Ernst were secured.
Both of these engineers. were regard
ed, because of their exceptional ex-
perience along these lines, as being
the best available men to assist in
handling this problem.
Mr. Morgan is a supervising drain
age engineer Of the u. $. Department
of Agriculture Drainage Invesuga-
tions, and was detailed for this ser
vice by the courtesy CT the chief Of
that department, Mr.. G. G. Elliott.
Mr.. Morgan has wide experience
in the solution of intricate drainage
problems throughout the country, and
has successfully met conditions some
what similar to those Of the Talla-
hatchie district, i'll the st. Francis and
Little River districts III Arkansas and
Missouri.
General Ernst was recently retired
from the Corps of Engineers, y. s.
Army. He served for some time on
the Mississippi River Commission, is
now chairman of the International
Waterways Commission, and has a
broad experience in the treatment of
hydralic problems.
At the request of Mr.. Morgan, Mr..
F. G. Prout, consulting electrical en-
gineer, of Memphis, Tenn, was also
called in to report upon the probable
value of the power .5hich can be gen
Grated at the proposed diversion dam.
Each of these engineers submitted
a separate report, Mr.. Proutt's deal
ing solely with The development of
power and the rsdiscussing main
ly the drainage problems. All of these
reports were transmitted to the presi-
dent of the commission, accompanied
by a report from Major T. G. Dabney,
chief engineer, summing up the re-
suit of the joint findings of himself
and consulting engineers.
The following extracts have been
taken from the chief engineers re-
port, and illustrate the main features
of the plan proposed.
ION September 9th, made a re-
portto you submitting aplan of main
drainage for the entire district with
estimates of the cost of same, and
recommending that it be approved
and adopted by the Drainage Com
mission, which was done. 1t viii be
recalled that this plan, under the
pressure of compelling circumstances,
had to be formulated in hasty man.
ner, when there was avowedly neither
sufficient time nor sufficient data
available to reach the most satisfac-
tory results in dealing with problem
which is beset with extraordinary in
tricacies and complexities, as will ap-
pear from the several reports to you
of the consulting engineers, which
are transmitted herewith.
.sMr. Morgan was called in month
or more ago, since which time he,
with the cooperation of the commits
sion engineers, has made an exhaus-
tive and diligent study Of all the pos
sibilities for drainage in this situation,
by the aid of much additional data
which has been obtained since the
original plan was presented. These
researches, covering wide scope,
were greatly stimulated by Mr.. Nor
gan's activity, and the principol fea-
ture Of the plan concluded upon, as
described below, 10 to be credited to
his initiative.
General Ernst was called in a
week ago, and since then has been
very diligent in going over all the
plans that have been considered, to-