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Title: American waterways
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: American Academy of Political and Social Science
Subjects: Inland navigation Inland navigation -- United States Irrigation Panama Canal (Panama)
Publisher: Philadelphia, American Academy of Political and Social Science
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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going up on the stream hitherto regardedas of little consequence we are compelled to revise authorities oftwenty years standing. One of the chief disadvantages to-day to the fuller utilizationof the streams, especially on the north side of the Ohio, is the in-sufficient supply of water in summer and fall, and the heavy fresh-ets; by engineering skill these objections are being met, and thepolicy of afforestation will also aid. The principal use of poweron these rivers to date has been for flouring, grist and saw mills,but on certain rivers, notably the Great Miami and the Beaver,general manufacturing has established itself. The Ohio River (^er se presents few opportunities for thedevelopment of water-power, the two really available sites beingat Louisville and Davis Island Dam. Engineers estimate that from17,000 to 144,000 horse-power can be produced at Louisville Falls.600 miles below Pittsburg and 135 miles below Cincinnati.As early as 1873 plans to this end were presented utilizing
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POWERS DEVfLOPED^^5 AVAILABLE=^ 1. Davis Island Dan:i 2. Connellsville. 3. Falls City 4. Beaver Falls. 5. New Brighton, 6. Fallston. 7. Zanesvillc. 8. Marietta. IVater-Pozccr in the Mississippi Valley 173 the present government dam and canal. On the Indiana bankof the river a low wing dam of rip-rap diverts enough water to runa few small plants situated above on the bluffs, and a trifling useof power is reported also on the Kentucky side. Many objectionshave been raised, but the main project is entirely possible if suffi-cient capital would develop the site. At Davis Island Dam, a few miles below Pittsburg, it issuggested that from 3,000 to 4,000 horse-power could be developedon an average of from seven to eight months a year, by taking advan-tage of the ten-foot fall below the dam as now constructed. Thetwo outer branches of the Ohio, viz., the Allegheny and Monon-gahela-Youghiogheny furnish, comparatively, little power. On theAllegheny there are a few powers, ranging from 75 to 250

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