WATER-POWER UTILIZATION 



Plant of Columbus R-vcr Co., n Muscogcc County, Georgia, on Chattahoochcc River, which Heads in the 



Southern Appjlachians 



ncnt timber supply, by securing 

 lation that would prevent forest wast- 

 age, despoliation and the total stripping 

 of tiinher from vast tracts. Instead of 

 using the income the natural reproduc- 

 ti ui and a part of the capital the orig- 

 inal forest each year, put the capi- 

 tal to work take care of existing for- 

 ests, and provide for new one-. If such 

 a plan had been adopted in Pennsyl- 

 vania fifty years ago. what would now 

 have been the condition of the state? 

 And what would, to-day, be the value 

 of a permanent and adequate timber 

 supply to the state? Mr. Practical 

 Business Man, suppose you answer ! 



Water Transportation 



NO THINKING man will deny that 

 a comprehensive, well-developed 

 system of water transportation would 

 be wonderfully beneficial to the inland 

 commerce of the United States. I'.ut 

 to have a system of waterways, we must 

 first have the water. There is plenty 

 of water ; but. under present conditions, 

 5So 



it conies too much in bunches. At one 

 sca-on \\e have raging, swirling yellow 

 torrents, while at another we have 

 -and bar-, -hallow-, and silt reefs. I lou 

 can tin'- condition be modified? Simp- 

 lest matter in th>' world. Five words 

 will explain: fore-t and ilood water 

 reservoirs. Let us reforest the de- 

 nuded hillsides, mountain tops and 

 watersheds, -o that the storm water-, 

 tin- melting -now-, and the- spring rains 

 will not carry down with them, in their 

 mad ru-h the stones, gravel, sand, and 

 silt, but will pass somewhat gradually 

 ''own from the hills. Then let us dam 

 the valleys at whose iMtoms lie the 

 feeders of the larger rivers ; let us 

 equip such dams with gates for regulat- 

 ing the flow of the water into the 

 -t reams; let the reservoirs be of suffi- 

 cient capacity to restrain any ordinary 

 flood ; and then let us so regulate the 

 outflow of water from them as to main- 

 tain a navigable stage even in seasons 

 of serious drought. We can then im- 

 prove existing waterways, and plan and 

 execute new ones, until the country is 

 covered with a network of canals and 

 -treams made navigable by man ; our 



