bUpper White.

Eight to 10 inches.

1894, 7,795,501 tons.
1895, 7,963,478 tons.
1896, 9,914,435 tons.
1897, 11,265,638 tons.
1898, 6,756,627 tons.
1899, 13,529,720 tons.
1900, 14,054,322 tons.
1901.d

1902, 12,202,017 tons.
1093, 12,499,842 tons.
1904, 10,142,551 tons.
1905, 13,163,656 tons.

Monongahela River Con-
solidated Coal and Coke
Co., A. R. Budd Coal Co.,
West Kentucky Coal Co.,
C. Jutte & Co. (People's
Coal Co.).

95 per cent of the commerce for 1906
was saw logs. The St. Francis
River is one of the most important
in this section.

Commerce included in that of the St.
Francis River.

Commerce consists almost wholly of
timber products. Navigability de-
pends largely on the stage of water
in the Mississippi River.

The Forked Deer River empties into
the Obion 34 miles above its mouth.
The commerce on this river consists
almost wholly of timber and its
products.

The Ohio is the most important com-
mercial stream in the country. It is
formed at Pittsburg by the junc-
tion of the Allegheny and Mononga-
hela rivers. It receives on its course
to the Mississippi a great number of
important tributaries, which for the
most part are navigable either nat-
urally or as the result of various
improvements. The Ohio flows
through a region very prosperous by
reason of its agricultural and indus-
trial interests, which have given it a
large population. At Pittsburg and
on the upper part of its course it re-
ceives coal from the rich fields of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia,
which it takes to Cincinnati, Louis-
ville, St. Louis, and other points as
far south as New Orleans. Com-
merce consists principally of coal,
iron, manufactured products, and
general merchandise.

a Fiscal year. d The Report of the Chief of Engineers for 1902, part 2, vol. 1, p. 398, says: "The commerce of the river is well known to be an extensive one and of the greatest national importance. It varies in and out at different points and over different sections as indicated by the following official record for the past year: In Pittsburg Harbor 10,916,489 tons, of which 8,030,413 was coal; at Davis Island Dam 3,450,665 tons, of which 3,307,738 was coal; at Louisville, Ky., through the canal and over the falls 1,472,542 tons. Besides the above, 173 packet steamers in regular service on the river reported general merchandise freight carried to the amount of 10,064,978 tons. There is also a considerable amount of coal contributed on the lower river, of which no statistics are available in this Department."

TABLE 8.-NAMES, LOCALITIES, NAVIGABLE LENGTHS, DEPTHS AT LOW WATER, ETC., OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS, ETC.-Continued. (c) Mississippi River and its tributaries-Continued.

t total traffic of the Tennessee River below Knoxville, excluding duplications in the traffic by sections given below. c Between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Florence, Ala.

(4) Davis Island Dam is a movable
dam and the first of a series for the
improvement of the upper portion
of the river. It has proved a great
benefit to commerce in general, and
especially to the coal interests, by
allowing the harborage of coal at
Pittsburg in large quantities while
awaiting stages of water suitable to
the passage of boats down the river.
In 1905 traffic through Dams 1 and
6, 3,083,359 tons.

(5) Davis Island Dam, forming as it
does the Pool of Pittsburg Harbor,
has lent its great part to the general
effect on freight rates to and from
Pittsburg. More coal is said to be
shipped to and through Pittsburg
than is handled in any other city in
the country, but there does not
appear to be any local bureau
devoted to the comprehensive col-
lection of statistics regarding the
city's transportation and manufac-
turing interests. Details of the
movement of coal in Pittsburg Dis-
trict over the several transporta-
tion routes are collected in the re-
ports of the Geological Survey.
The Tennessee River is formed by the
confluence of the French Broad and
Holston rivers 4.5 miles above
Knoxville, Tenn., and is one of the
best natural means of communica-
tion in the Mississippi Valley. It
flows south into Alabama, then
westwardly toward the Mississippi
River until deflected, it turns north
and again crosses the State of
Tennessee, emptying into the Ohio
at Paducah, Ky. The Tennessee
with its tributaries forms a system
of internal waterways, navigable by
steamboats for more than 1,300
miles. Its tributaries are still fur-
ther navigable by rafts and flat
boats for a distance of more than
1,000 miles, thus constituting a sys-
tem of navigable waterways about
Above Chattanooga, Tenn.

TABLE 8.-NAMES, LOCALITIES, NAVIGABLE LENGTHS, DEPTHS AT LOW WATER, ETC., OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS, ETC.-Continued. (c) Mississippi River and its tributaries-Continued.

Remarks.

2,350 miles in length. The river is
navigable the year round from the
mouth to Riverton, Ala. Just
above Riverton a lateral canal
about 8 miles long is now under con-
struction by the Government. The
canal extends past the Colbert and
Bee Tree Shoals. The Muscle Shoals
Canal now surmounts the Big Mus-
cle Shoals and Elk River Shoals.
Local boat lines have headquarters
at the principal towns along the
river. There appears to be
through traffic covering the entire
length of the river, the longest regu-
lar boat service being between Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky.
The value of the river traffic for 1904
was estimated by the Chief of En-
gineer's Report at about $30,000,000.
The French Broad is one of the largest
tributaries of the Tennessee; rising
in North Carolina, it flows gener-
ally in a northwesterly direction and
finally unites with the Holston
River in the State of Tennessee
about 4.5 miles above Knoxville to
form the Tennessee River.
The Little Pigeon River practically
amounts to an additional landing
of the French Broad. Traffic move-
ment included in French Broad.
Small steamboats ply as far as Clin-
ton. Statement made that 35 per
cent of tonnage transported only
from Kingston, Tenn., to mouth, a
distance of 1 mile. Balance mostly
rafted. General merchandise, for-
est products, and farm products.

The Hiwassee rises in the mountains
of North Carolina and northern
Georgia, flows in a northwesterly
direction, and enters the Tennessee
about 35 miles above Chattanooga,
draining an area of about 2,725
square miles.

There is no regular upstream move-
ment on the river. Occasionally a
small steamboat runs up 30 to 60
miles from the mouth during pe-
riods of high water. Commerce is
principally logs rafted.

The Cumberland River rises in eastern
Kentucky, flows in a tortuous
course about 688 miles through east-
ern Kentucky, middle Tennessee,
and western Kentucky, flowing into
the Ohio River near Smithland, Ky.
Below Nashville the river is usually
navigable for all steamboats plying
on it for 6 months in each year; for
boats not drawing over 3 feet, from
6 to 8 months; and for boats draw-
ing 16 inches or less, the whole year.
Navigation is practically closed for
several months each year during low
water. The section of the river
from Nashville to Rock Castle
River, 357 miles above Nashville, in
its original condition, was much ob-
structed by rocks, snags, etc., which
greatly impeded navigation be-
tween Nashville and Burnside.
Since the canalization of the river
the navigation has been much im-
proved. Statement made that Ten-
nessee Central R. R., which paral-
lels the Cumberland from Nashville
to Clarksville, Tenn., has reduced
rates since completion of present
improvements. The river and har-
bor act of Mar. 3, 1905, authorized
the Cumberland River Improve-
ment Co. of Kentucky to improve
the Cumberland River and tributa-
ries, including the South Fork,
above Burnside, Ky., at its own ex-
pense, by construction of necessary
focks and dams under Government

b Between Florence, Ala., and Paducah, Ky.