The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1910-07-14
AN IMPORTANT NATTER.
CONGRESSMAN Patterson Wants Work
Done on EdistO and Salkehatchie.


South Carolina:
My Dear Mr.. Carter-I am in re-
ceipt of two communications from
Capt. E. M. Adams, Corps of En-
gineers Custom House, Charleston, s.
c., copy of one Of which is as follows:
THE River and Harbor Act ap-
proved June 25th, 1910, contains an
order for a preliminary examination,
as follows: South Fork Edisto
River to Guingnard's Landing"
This appears to come within your
purview. To enable me to elicit full
discussion of this question, will you
| please furnish me a list of names and
| addresses of persons and companies
| most interested?" A copy of The
other letter is as follows, and ex-
plains itself:
''The River and Harbor Act, ap-
proved June 25th, 1910, contains an
order for a preliminary examination,
as follows:
.Salkehatchie River to Morris
Crossing.
"This appears to come within your
purview. To enable me to elicit full
discussion of this question, will you
please furnish me list of names and
addresses of persons and companies
most interested?"
appeared before the committee
| on rivers and harbors and secured the
orders for both of the preliminary
examinations of these two rivers.
Representative A. F. Lever and I are
both interested in the preliminary
examination ordered under the same
act of the "Waterways from Orange
burg to Charleston including cutoff
or canal from Edisto river to Ashley
river with a view of providing more
direct route between said cities,
than afforded by existing channels, v
and both of us appeared before the
committee on rivers and harbors and
secu1 ed an order for the preliminary
examination of these waterways. The
opening up of these waterways to
navigation would afford direct water
| routes from Orangeburg in Orange
burg county and from Guignard's s
Landing, in Aiken county, via the
Edisto river to Charleston, also a
water route from Morris Crossing, in
Barnwell county via the Salkehatchie
river to the coast 1t is needless for
me to add what great benefit would
accrue to the people resident in the
| vicinity of these streams in the coun-
ties through which they flow. I am
especially desirous, therefore, that
you bring to your aid the assistance of
your two local papers, and that you
get in communication at the earliest
practicable date with Capt. Adams
and with Major J. B. Cavanaugh, War
Department, Washington, D. c., and
furnish them with all the information,
aid and assistance possible in connec-
ton with improving the navigation OF
these streams, and the benefits that
would accrue therefrom to the resi-
dents of these counties. A favorable
report from these engineers will make
| it much easier for me to secure the
| necessary appropriation for improv-
ing the navigation Of these streams.
Orangeburg and Charleston are al
ready both very much alive to the
| importance of this matter, and MIR.
W. L. Glover, chairman of the data
committee of the Orangeburg cham
Der of commerce, has already pre-
pared considerable data in this con-
nection and the Charleston committee
has done likewise.
I have been working at these mat
ters ever since 1 have been in con-
gress, and now that I have secured
orders for preliminary examinations
of these streams, I am extremely anx-
ious that the right kind Of showing
be made to these engineers and that
they be rendered every assistance pos-
sible in order that I may be enabled
to secure the necessary appropria-
tions for improving the navigation
of these streams and opening them
up to commerce.
There is another matter which l
desire to bring to your attention IN
| this connection and that is the great
benefit that would accrue to the land
owners adjacent to these streams in
having their swamp lands as well as
other lands adjacent to these streams
drained by the same, as the removal
of all distractions from the streams
and the deepening and clearing out of
the channel will give freer flow to
| the streams.
In order that all parties interested
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