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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



January 



North Carolina, added a million dol- 

 lars ; and those on the tributaries of 

 other streams rising about the Blue 

 Ridge in South Carolina and Georgia 

 add still another million, making four 

 million in all for the streams flowing 

 from the Blue Ridge across the Pied- 

 mont plateau. Add to this the dam- 

 ages along the streams flowing out of 

 the Southern Appalachian Mountains 

 to the north, west, and southwest, and 



On the Tuckasegee, Little Tennes- 

 see, and Hiwassee, in North Carolina 

 and Tennessee, $500,000. 



On the tributaries of western Geor- 

 gia and Alabama streams rising in this 

 region, $500,000. 



This aggregate of $10,000,000 tells 

 a story of destruction never before 

 equaled in this region. Bridges were 

 swept away by the score, houses by the 

 hundred ; thousands of miles of pub- 



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Layer of Sand spread over the lowlands bordering the Catawba River by a flood in May, 1901. 



we have another and a larger story of 

 destruction : 



On the New (Kanawha) and other 

 smaller adjacent streams in Virginia 

 and West Virginia, $1,000,000. 



On the Watauga, in North Carolina 

 and Tennessee, $2,000,000. 



On the Nolichucky, in North Caroli- 

 na and Tennessee, $1,500,000. 



On the French Broad and Pigeon, 

 in North Carolina and Tennessee 

 $500,000. 



lie roads were washed away almost be- 

 yond the possibility of repair. 



The soil in the narrow, irregular, 

 fringing valley lands in the mountain 

 region was in many cases partially and 

 in other cases completely washed 

 away. In the lowlands beyond, the 

 broader bordering valleys were de- 

 nuded beyond recuperation. Some 

 areas were denuded of soil, while 

 others were covered with desert-like. 



