WATER-POWERS OF ALABAMA. ;Q 



As the investigations in this State have been confined so 

 far mainly to the Mobile and Tennessee basins, only the 

 streams of these basins will be considered in the following 

 discussion. It is to be remembered that from West Point, 

 Ga., southwards, the line of Alabama is on the west bank of 

 the Chattahoochee River, along the line where ordinary 

 vegetation ceases to grow. This leaves all of the water 

 power of the main stream on Georgia territory. There are 

 many creeks flowing into the river from Alabama, some of 

 which have considerable fall, as they come from a high 

 plateau. Holland Creek, opposite Columbus, Ga., furnishes 

 the Columbus water supply by gravity, having a fall of 117 

 feet in less than four miles. No doubt many of the others 

 have as much fall, but as they have not been examined, a 

 report on them cannot be made at present, but a recent 

 reconnoissance along the Chattahoochee gives the following 

 estimate of power obtained from some of them, 12 hours per 

 day for each foot of fall, if the water is stored during the 

 12 idle hours : 



Big Uchee Creek, Russell County 7 H. P. per foot of fall. 



Ihagee Creek, Russell County 2 H. P. per foot of fall! 



Hatcliechubbee Creek, Russell County... 7 H. P. per foot of fall. 



Cowikee Creek, Barbour County 11 H. P. per foot of fall. 



Yattayabba Creek, Henry County 9 H. P. per^ot of fall. 



Omussee Creek, Henry county 7 H. P. per foot of fall. 



EXPLANATION OP STATION RECORDS AND TABULAR STATE- 

 MENTS DEDUCED THEREFROM. 



GAGE HEIGHTS. 



The "Table of Gage Heights" is a record of the height 

 of water on a gage rod, graded to feet and hundredths of 

 a foot, set into the river vertically, and fastened permanently 

 to a convenient tree or pier. The rod is read every day in 

 the year, at the same time of day, which is about 8 o'clock 

 in the morning. Inches are not used in these records, as the 

 daily height of water on the gage is written in feet and deci- 

 mals of a foot. 



