Senate Doc. No. 84. 



Plate XXVII. 



CASCADES NEAR HEAD OF CATAWBA RIVER. (Set pp. 29, 116.) 



There .are hundreds of cascades as beautiful as this in the Southern Appalachians. As long as these mountain 

 forests are preserved these streams have a regular flow; united thev furnish the water powers which operate the 

 factories valued at increasing millions. 



