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[File contains five identical reports.]


**************REPORT************
AVAILABLE POWER AND COST OF DEVELOPMENT
Green River, Henderson-Polk Counties, North Carolina

Spartanburg, S.C.
Dec. 12th, 1906.

To
Mr. Willett Bronson,
Superintending Agent, No. 18 Exchange Place,
New York City, N.Y.
and
Mr. C.B. Justice,
State Agent for Trustees,
Rutherfordton, N.C.

Dear Sirs:
        In accordance with your instructions, embodied in contract dated June, 19th. 1906, and specifications of same date, I visited Green River during Nov. 1906, and examined the river from the railroad bridge near Zirconia to Green river cove, at the W.A. Henderson property Fish Stop shoal, with a view to hydraulic power development, including Laurel creek, and instituted surveys of said reach of this river; the results of which are described in the following report and shown on the accompanying maps.  Sheets 1,2,

** ** ** **DESCRIPTION** ** ** **

        The sources of Green river are in the Blue Ridge mountains, extending fro Turkey Mt., south west corner of Henderson Co., N.C., U.S. Geo. Sur. Topo. Sheet, Saluda Quad., a distance of 26 miles as the crow flies.  The character of the drainage basin is mountainous and the valley narrow with a few acres of low flat land.
        The stream is gorged at a few places only; the slopes of the valley being generally about 45 [degrees].  See Topo. Sheets above named.

** ** ** ** POSITION ** ** ** **

        The part of the stream covered by surveys, from Green river bridge, Howard Gap road, about 3 1/2 miles north east of Zirconia, U.S. Gauging Station, as follows:-

From Hendersonville, N.C.....................7 miles
"        Asheville, N.C..............................26 ".
"        Rutherfordton N.C.......................26 ".
"        Greenville, S.C.............................28 ".
"        Spartanburg, S.C..........................32 ".

All as the crow flies.
      The general direction of the river fro the railroad bridge, near Zirconia, to the mouth of Big Hungry creek, is north east, 4 1/2 miles in an air line; and from Big Hungry creek to the upper end of Green River Cove, south east by east, 1 3/4 miles.

** ** ** ** FLOW ** ** ** **

        The flow of Green river at the Howard Gap road bridge (U.S. Gauging Station) 3 1/2 miles east of flat rock railroad Station. (Saluda Quad.) was determined by the U.S.G. survey, Nov. 13th, 1905, Water Supply and Irrigation Paper No. 168, - Pg. 30.
        I examined this gauging Station critically and considered it an ideal location for meter work, such as executed by the U.S. Engineers.  All the water passes through parallel walls in a smooth unbroken sheet and the bottom is practically smooth and nearly level.  The flow was 72 sec. feet.
        The reliability of this measurement seems to be well supported by the rainfall in that section.
        The Annual Summary-1905, Weather Bureau, Raleigh, N.C. Pg. 9, shows that the rainfall was deficient in the is section and over nearly all of the western part of the State during the months of Sept., Oct., and Nov.  The rainfall at Hendersonville-nearest station-was; Sept., 1.83 inches; Oct., 3.42 inches, and Nov., 0.38 inches, showing a deficiency of 6.14 inches for the said 3 months.  It seems that the stream would have been discharging a normal flow with a 2 1/2 months deficient rainfall immediately preceding the measurement of flow, which agrees wit my own observations on stream flow in this section.  In connection with the fact that Green river may very well be "robbing" the water shed of the French Broad river and its tributaries which is several hundred feet higher than the Green river, and which water shed is a comparatively narrow one, may very well account for the difference of the Government calculation of 72 sec. feet, and my calculation of 59.57 sec. feet.  As I informed you verbally by method of calculation is to ascertain from the U.S.G. reports of the annual rainfall, from a calculation of the drainage area and an examination of the geological structure of the basin thereof, the annual amount of the water flowing into the river.  The above facts might well account for the difference of the results arrived at between the two methods of computation.  I estimate the normal discharge of Green river at the point above stated, to be 59,57 sec. ft., or 17 1/4 [percent] less than the Government record.  The normal flow of a stream is the greatest discharge for the greatest length of time during a year: i.e. the potential Dynamic flow, which lies between the minimum flow, which is all the year, and the maximum flow, which is for a short period, and which, from practical experience, we determine to be 11 8/10 months, and which normal flow is the greatest continuous flow.