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ing the horse power available on any shoal, the fall of which 

 may hereafter be surveyed, by the owners, or by parties con- 

 templating development. 



Talladega Creek, in the vicinity of Taylor's Mill, has a fall of 

 73 feet in one mile, where it emerges from the Crystalline rocks. 

 Taking the flow at Nottingham, we say that during the low 

 water of 1900 and 1901 this 73 feet of fall would have pro- 

 duced 438 net horse power without storage. This 73 feet is 

 probably the most precipitous shoal on the large creek, but 

 above it for four or five miles the creek has a number of rapids 

 and shoals that will admit of good development. 



The head waters of this stream in the neighborhood of the 

 pyrites mines in Clay county have high falls on them. 



Choccolocco Creek is a very large and constant stream, and 

 has many rapids where good powers could be developed by 

 dams. During a season such as low water of 1900 or 1901 a 

 lo-foot dam near Jenifer would develop 86 net H. P. A io- 

 foot dam at any point near the mouth of the creek would de- 

 velop 140 net H. P. during the given season. 



Big Wills Creek, at the old Wesson mill, two miles north of 

 Attalla, has a good site for a 25-foot dam. The flow at this 

 point on October 16, 1901, was 107 second-feet, which with a 

 fall of 25 feet, will give 242 net H. P. The fall on other tribu- 

 taries named has not been ascertained. 



8. COOSA RIVER SURVEY. 



The Coosa River has its beginning at the junction of the 

 Etowah and Oastanaula Rivers, at Rome, Ga., a short distance 

 west of the Alabama line. 



From Rome down to Greensport, Ala., a distance of about 

 1 80 miles by river, navigation has been carried on for many 

 years. The total fall in this section is only about 55 feet, and 

 is so well distributed that it has not been necessary to construct 

 locks at any point, though improvements have been made by 

 the U. S. Government in the way of deepening channels, blast- 

 ing out reefs, and building wing dams, etc. 



This part of the river will, therefore, not be considered as 

 having any water power value. 



Below Greensport, Ala.,. the river has a large amount of fall, 

 and although it is proposed to make the whole distance navi- 

 gable by the construction of locks, there are many fine water 

 power propositions which can be developed in connection with 



