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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture in relation to the forests, rivers, and mountains of the southern Appalachian region

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  • 142 SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REGION. amount utilized being only about 10,000, while the available power on the Coosa River is about 140,000 horsepower, the amount in use being approximately 13,000. On the Tennessee River, in Alabama, there is available 100,000 horsepower, while on the tributaries of the Tennessee, in North Carolina and Tennessee, large amounts of power are available, as shown in the following paragraphs: On the Hiwassee and its tributaries the available power is estimated to be 75,000 horsepower, though the amount used is very small, the only users of power in the basin being some small plants. On the Little Tennessee system, including the Little Tennessee, Cheoah, Tuckasegee, Nantahala, Oconalufty, Tellico, Ellijay, and Little Pigeon rivers, the available power is 100,000, while the amount utilized is only 1,700. On the French Broad River and tributaries, rising in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the aggregate horsepower available is 50,000, while that used is about 3,500, though more than this will come into use in the near future when some developments which are now under way are completed. Others in this basin are projected. In the Nolichucky Basin about 700 horsepower is in use, and 35,000 is available. On the Watauga the amount of power available is 20,000, while only a few small powers have been developed, aggregating 450 horsepower. In the Holston Basin 4,700 horsepower has been utilized, and 40,000 remain undeveloped. It would be entirely safe to estimate the available but undeveloped water power on the streams rising among the southern Appalachian Mountains as equivalent to not less than 1,067,000 horsepower, and the developed power is 117,750. It would also be entirely correct to state that the future value of these water powers, as indeed the future value of almost everything of value about these mountains, depends largely upon the future preservation of the forests.
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