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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • ONE OF A DOZEN MODERN HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS NEAR THE SMOKIES Harnessing the Mountain Streams JUST AS THE inhabitants of the Great Smokies have progressed in their mode of living, from the days of some of America's oldest Indian tribes, the Cherokees, on down to the mountain people of the present day, who send their children to the schools and churches in the valleys and pass the time of day with numerous hikers and sight-seers from the distant cities, so also has there been even greater progress in the utilizing of the gigantic power of the mountain streams that course through the gorges and down the valleys. These streams have their beginnings, many of them, at the very top of the highest peaks in the Great Smokies, where springs that have for centuries furnished water for man, bird and beast, develop into a constant flow of volume and power that is now of inestimable value to all the adjoining sections of the mountain region. Capital and engineering skill have contributed to the evolution of the old mill wheel in a way that is best described by the pictures on this and the pages immediately preceding. From the primitive grist mill to the present-day hydroelectric power plant is a road fraught with toil and tireless energy, but one of great achievement, the extent of which will be meas- INTERIOR OF TENNESSEE ELECTRIC TOWER COMPANY PLANT AT HALE'S , , , , BAR, ON THE TENNESSEE river ured by the tuture.
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