Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-29

public corporations and local I'M
| provement districts formed under
state laws, commercial enterprises
| draining swamp or overlooked land
| for sale, other organizations that
may be engaged in extensive land
| drainage work, and also tracts OF
| 500 acres or more drained by 1ndi-
| vidual owners. Enterprises such as
leyee districts that have not au-
| thorized the construction of open
| bitches or tile drains axe not nclud-
ed.
ENTERPRISES located in more than
one county were divided, for tabu-
Iation. and the part in each county
treated as a separate enterprise,
though the capacities OF drainage
pumping plants are given only in
the counties in which the plants are
+! locates.
Operating enterprises, - desig-
mated in this bulletin, are those that
| had [ 1npleted the drainage works
authorized, or had at any rate be-
gun actual construction work, on or
before January 1, 1920; enterprises
that had been established but had
not begun construction are termed
incorporating
Land in drainage enterprises
comprises the area that has been
benefited, or is to be benefited, by the
Improvement works constructed by
the enterprises. In the case OF over
tapping enterprises, deduction has
been made for the amount of dupli-
cation.
"All land in drainage enterprises
is divided, without regard to drain
age condition, into (a) improved
land; (b) timber and out-over land,
which would require clearing to be
thoroughly fit for cultivation and
(c) all other improved land, which
would not require expensive clear
ing before cultivation.
1.-THE assessed acreage for any sin
gle enterprise is the saE-e as the
area in that enterprise. However,
the total assessed acreage may be
considerably greater than the total
land in enterprises, for in summing
up the assessed acreage in the coun-
ty or state, deduction was not made
for acreage assessed in more than
one enterprise.
Improved land in drainage enter
prises consists very largely OF i'm
proved farm land, though it may in
clude some other improved land re-
ceiving benefit from the works OF
the enterprises.
Timber and cut-over land in
cludesy farm woodland Of natural or
planted forest trees as well as other
timber land or areas that wouldeneed
clearing of trees, stumps, or peren-
NAL woody shrubs.
Land designated as swampy or
subject to overflow, includes all land
permanently or generally too wet
for cultivation, land subject to peri
odical inundation by stream floods,
seeped and ralkali land in irrigated
regions, and all other land UNFIT for
cultivation by reason of insufficient
drainage. This classification is with
out respect to the conditions as to
Improvement or timber. /
"The area suffering loss Of crops
is intended to include only land de-
voted to planting crops which suf-
fer damage, either partial or COM
plete, because Of defective drainage.
Land which would be cultivated il
drained or protected against over
flow is not included.
Capital invested, for the purpose
of investigation, was defined as
cost, including charges for engineer
ing, organization, tights of way, con-
struction of drainage works, dam
ages, land and buildings except those
held for sale or farming, and any
other expenditures properly charge
able to drainage and paid by the
enterprise.
'"The drainage works of an enter
prise include all varieties of under
ground conduits, pipes, or line OF
tile, or drains of stone, wood, or 9TH
err material; also open bitches and
canals, together with accessory lev
ees, bikes, dams, weirs, pumping ma
chinery, gates, and other devices for
draining away or control of surface
and soil waters.
"Tilie, as the term is here used,
includes pipes of earthenware, con-
crete, or other material buried be-
meath the surface in such a way as
to permit the excess water to flow
away. The size, if circular, is ex-
pressed by the inside diameter in
! inches.
bitches include all open artificial
trenches, usually with sloping aides.
The width is that of the bottom.
1.-THE type Of drainage shows
whether the drainage water from
an enterprise is discharged by grav-
ity or by pumping.
"a pumping district is one where
all or a part Of the water from the
drains collecting at a low point must
be raised by some form of machin-
cry in order that it may be removed
from the area.
Drainage pumps include all kinds
Of machinery and devices for lifting
he drainage water.
Pumping engines include all kinds
of engines and motors for operating
he drainage pumps"
With this data in hand the farm
ars of any, community will under
stand how to proceed to form a drain
9ge organization. The Georgia State