200 WATER-POWERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



eight feet; Hamilton's shoal, ten feet ; Ilrlland's shoal, fifteen feet in three hundred yards, one 

 and one-quarter miles from r-iilroad: Blackhurn's inland shoal, ten feet,; Tripp's sluml, sixteen 

 feet. 



(.1) Above, Allen's shoil, fourteen feet fill in two hundred and fifty yards ; may be increased 

 to 18 feet. 



(t) Above are Blassingarae's, Harrison's, Farris's and other shoals, all about six miles from 

 Greenville. 



(w) Above is Cedar falls, twenty-one feet. 



(art Above are Harrison's and Houff's mills, ten feet fall each; Log shoal, fourteen feet fall; 

 Ashmore's mill, ten feet fall, and Linderman'.s shoal. 



(.(/) Jones's paper mill, eleven and one-half feet fill, fifty horse-power; Parkin's mill, eleven 

 feet fall; Green's shoal ; ^>awmill shoal, nine feet fall. 



(z) Tributary to Reedy river are Laurel creek and Rearburn creek, with a good fall of twenty- 

 six feet at Goodgion's mill, and another of fourteen .'"eet at Fuller's factory. 



(*) Twelve Mile creek, tributary of the Saluda, in Lexington count.v, has a drainage area of 

 ninety-three square miles, and five horse-power per foot fall at low water. .Several falls on it are 

 from seven feet to twelve feet, and might be increased to twenty feet or thirty feet. Other tribu- 

 taries are. Little Saluda river, draining two hundred and ninety-seven square miles in Edgefield ; 

 Bush river, one hundred and five square miles in Newberry; Little river, two hundred and 

 twent.y square miles. 



(t; North Fork Saluda, draining flfty-six square miles, has a perpendicular fall of two to 

 three hundred feet over a gneiss ledge, and another not quite so high. .Middle Fork drains 

 flfty-six square miles. South Fork drains seventy-eight square miles; on it Rock shoal has nine 

 feet, and an unused sho d, twelve feet fall. A mill sixteen miles from Greenville has eighteen feet 

 fall. All the head waters abound in cataracts, some several hundred feet, almo^t verticil. 



The tributaries and affluents of the Savannah river not enumerated 

 above are in the sand hill region — the Upper and Lower Three Runs, 

 Hollow creek and Horse creek, all considerable streams. On Horse 

 creek 1,807 horse-power have been utilized, and there is a large amount, 

 say one-third, still unemployed. The streams named should furnish at 

 least as much as this one, which would give about 10,000 additional 

 horse-power available in this section alone. Above the fall line Big Stevens 

 creek is a large stream, and so are Big and Little Generostee creeks. 

 Tugaloo river has for its tributaries Big Beaver Dam, Choestoe and 

 Chauga creeks. The Chatauga river has Brasstown, AVhetstone and 

 other considerable tributaries, scarcely any spot in its drainage basin 

 being two miles from a water-power. Seneca river has Deep, Eighteen- 

 Mile, Twenty -three Mile, Twenty-six Mile and Conner's creeks, all large 

 streams, with abundant fall. The Keowee river has Toxaway, Big Es- 

 tatoe and Whitewater creeks, the latter with one fall of six hundred feet 

 in three hundred yards. This whole region abounds in streams of clear 

 "a'ater flowing over rock, having numerous cataracts and fed by an annual 

 rainfall of more than sixty inches. 



In the above statement the available water-power examined is estimated 

 at something over 300,000 horse-power. Of this amount about 4,000 

 horse-i^ower only are employed by all kinds of mills, Avhich is only a 

 little more than one per cent. The returns of the census enumerators, 

 however, above given, show that altogether more than 15,000 horse-power 

 are actually employed by mills in this region. Now, it is more likely 

 that Mr. Swain would pass over without examination such water-powers 



