Book/Printed Material Navigation of Tennessee River. Mr. Morgan presented the following report from the Select Committee of the Senate To Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River in response to a Senate resolution of March 2, 1905. December 13, 1905. -- Ordered to be printed, with illustrations
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 59TH CONGRESS SENATE Dorey 1st Session No 83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER Mr Morean presented the following REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE TO EXAMINE AND REPORT ON THE NAVIGATION…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
- Date: 1905
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 2 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER St Louis and New Orleans And they have reached the conclusion that the natural advantages are such that this great work can be speedily accomplished at a…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 3 the same natural rights upon the water courses of their own coun tries such rights being the gift of God dedicated to mankind belong to the people…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 4 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER The present capacity of the Mississippi is in excess of the actual needs of the commerce that is now contributed by the great rivers that flow into…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 5 An effort to enumerate these elementary necessities of the best and highest civilization of the leading race of mankind would fail to pre sent even a just…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 6 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER They are to be cared for as highways dedicated to the people who have the good fortune to occupy the lands of which they are a part…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 7 Oklahoma oevaeancnne 78068000 Utah cuerneememacnvass 90 325 000 Orecon 75661000 Vermont _____ 87311000 Pennsylvania 1420608000 Virginia __ 2 _ 211 315 000 Bhode Island 25719000 Washingion________ 182…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 8 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER America and of the Amur in Russia and the Kongo in Africa yet to be developed It will lead them and control their commerce as it now…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 9 trade of this region give it a paramount importance in its influence upon the growth and strength and power of the United States in all civil industrial…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 10 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER tion that will connect the mouths of every navigable river of the United States that empties into the ocean on the Atlantic coast Such is the configuration…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 11 Each river has what is now termed a head of navigation and along its shores it has cities towns villages or landings each of which is a…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 12 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER upon it and to those who wish to find such a market on any of the rivers that flow into the Mississippi This is a common center…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 18 The committee can not omit to call special attention to this double bay or estuary in the center of the eastern grand division of this continent of…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 14 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER Navigable length of rivers in Mississippi Valley Miles Miles Mississippi Biver _ 2189 Cumberland River come 518 Missourl River 2013 Wabash River 104 Aransas BIVer ooo cccae…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 15 Congress in balancing the demands of duty in respect of the all important interests of transportation must find that a tremendous deficiency of legislative provisions in the…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 16 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER It is a country that stands apart from other regions as possessing within its own limits all the staple material that is necessary to the highest development…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 17 V TENNESSEE RIVER AND ITS AFFLUENTS For the purposes of this report this river will be considered as being navigable from Knoxville to Paducah those being the…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 18 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER HOLSTON RIVER AND THE RAILROADS The improvement of the navigation of the Holston is left out of this discussion for the future separate examination that it will…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 19 EASTERN DIVISION The eastern division has its origin in the Blue Ridge range of mountains and the eastern slope of the Alleghenies in water courses that meet…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 20 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER receives through Sequatchee Valley chiefly the coal iron and timber that comes from the western slope of the Alleghenies and the spur ridges into which it is…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 21 of which the Ohio and the Kanawha form the fourth which wants only about 125 miles of being closed in a complete circuit of navigable waters It…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 22 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER pensable textile to all the eastern watershed of the Mississippi at the cheapest cost for transportation It does not seem possible that Congress can be indifferent to…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 23 shoals Regimen of river is practically permanent practically little change in fifty years and as the rock excavations stone dams etc are but little atfected by the…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 24 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER Report for 1890 Gen Thomas I Casey Chief of Engineers states The banks are of such a character as to make any improvement practically permanent Colonel Barlow…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 25 throughout its entire length for boats of moderate draft is by no means an impossibility Now that the great obstruction of the Muscle Shoals has been overcome…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 26 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER Now that Muscle Shoals Canal is completed and Colbert Shoals is to be done away with it is more annoying to the now really brightening prospects for…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 27 Major Knight officer in charge states Extensive mineral resources exist in the counties adjacent to the upper third of the river but most of these are not…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 28 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER susceptible of economical and advantageous development From that point it becomes a broad and beautiful stream IFor this reason the Government has settled upon the mouth of…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 29 Col H M Robert division engineer in forwarding Major King mans report on April 4 1900 states I concur with Major Kingman in the opinion that the…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 30 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER stantly being used by the people that the mineral and agricultural wealth of the region drained is very great Report for 1894 Captain Biddle repeats statements made…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 31 ton Tenn 105 miles above Chattanooga It has two principal tribu taries the Powell and the Emory Clinch River was slightly and temporarily improved by work done…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 89 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER June 30 1905 is 5247249 The project upon which these oToondis tures have been made was to secure better highwater navigation 2 feet in the channel up…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 33 largely made up of the aggregated shipments from its upper tributaries Large quantities of grain lumber and stock are brought down these streams on the rain tides…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 34 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER feet The banks are composed of rock or hard resisting clay with average bank height of 15 feet and show a very stable character The bed of…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 35 G T Nelles assistant engineer who made the survey states All persons familiar with the past and present conditions of the river testify that the works executed…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 30 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER Reports for 1805 and 1896 No appropriations since 1890 No work since September 1892 Report for 1900 General Wilson in a letter to Secretary of War Root…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 37 The early plans proposed contemplated a lowwater channel from near The Forks to near Knoxville by regulation works and re moval of temporary obstructions Later surveys show…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 38 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER LITTLE TENNESSEE Tittle Tennessee River rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the boundary line between Georgia and North Carolina Its total length is 134 miles but…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER 39 The rapid increase of transportation routes and facilities that are established and the still greater development now in process of con struction have created new necessities for…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
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Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83 40 NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER VI NAVIGATION OF TENNESSEE RIVER The sources of the Tennessee and Ohio rivers are in the great Appalachian Range of mountains They flow to the Mississippi through…- Contributor: Morgan, John Tyler - United States. Government Publishing Office - United States. Congress. Senate - United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
- Date: 1905
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- Navigation of Tennessee River. Mr. Morgan presented the following report from the Select Committee of the Senate To Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River in response to a Senate resolution of March 2, 1905. December 13, 1905. -- Ordered to be printed, with illustrations
Other Title
- Cited as: S. Doc. 59-83
Names
- United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee To Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
- Morgan, John Tyler 1824-1907
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
Created / Published
- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905.
Headings
- - Business
- - Canals
- - Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
- - Dams
- - Dredging
- - Federal aid to transportation
- - Factory and trade waste
- - Revenue
- - Alluvial plains
- - Floodplains
- - Geography
- - Inland water transportation
- - Interstate relations
- - Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
- - Shipping
- - Navigation
- - Railroads
- - Bodies of water
- - Rivers
- - Banks (Oceanography)
- - Sand bars
- - Snags (Forestry)
- - Water levels
- - Watersheds
- - Economic aspects
- - Financial statements
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- Government publication
- Legislative materials
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- 1 online resource (72 pages). color maps, tables.
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- KF12
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- 2024871920
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- Morgan, John Tyler
- United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Examine and Report on the Navigation of the Tennessee River
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office
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- Alluvial Plains
- Banks (Oceanography)
- Bodies of Water
- Business
- Canals
- Channels (Hydraulic Engineering)
- Dams
- Dredging
- Economic Aspects
- Factory and Trade Waste
- Federal Aid to Transportation
- Financial Statements
- Floodplains
- Geography
- Government Publication
- Inland Water Transportation
- Interstate Relations
- Legislative Materials
- Locks (Hydraulic Engineering)
- Navigation
- Railroads
- Revenue
- Rivers
- Sand Bars
- Shipping
- Snags (Forestry)
- Water Levels
- Watersheds