appalachian
electric
power
argued
decided
december
rehearing
denied
see
appalachian
electric
power
robert
jackson
atty
francis
biddle
sol
petitioner
raymond
jackson
cleveland
ohio
hugo
kohlmann
new
york
city
respondent
abram
staples
atty
virginia
commonwealth
virginia
amicus
curiae
special
leave
justice
reed
delivered
opinion
case
involves
scope
federal
commerce
power
relation
conditions
licenses
required
federal
power
commission
construction
hydroelectric
dams
navigable
rivers
reach
issue
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preliminarily
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river
watercourse
flowing
virginia
west
virginia
district
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federal
power
commission
authority
license
construction
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construct
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stream
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file
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finds
interests
interstate
foreign
commerce
affected
permission
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construction
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construction
go
forward
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license
radford
dam
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respondent
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river
development
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power
commission
june
commission
requested
report
general
harry
taylor
chief
engineers
war
department
first
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river
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flow
dam
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license
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river
present
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development
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commission
held
hearing
declaration
evidence
submitted
general
taylor
second
report
respondent
appalachian
electric
power
company
took
assignment
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intention
august
several
days
later
filed
application
license
commission
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matters
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developed
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district
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federal
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power
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project
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attorney
general
mitchell
advised
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new
river
mouth
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creek
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dam
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may
filed
bill
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construction
maintenance
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license
federal
power
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river
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power
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hinton
across
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line
use
public
purposes
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physical
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new
river
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creek
near
north
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line
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miles
kanawha
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virginia
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virginia
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kanawha
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together
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stretch
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miles
wiley
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across
state
line
hinton
west
virginia
like
upper
section
government
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section
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navigability
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stronger
obstructions
much
weaker
instance
report
chief
engineers
refers
certain
keelboats
operating
river
report
shows
keelboats
operated
hinton
keelboats
bateaux
feet
long
draft
two
feet
carrying
capacity
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tons
used
commercially
transport
lumber
tobacco
products
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clear
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plied
hinton
near
glen
lyn
fair
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first
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lumber
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points
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lyn
beginning
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war
around
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engineers
reported
two
keelboats
operating
eight
eight
together
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corroborating
testimony
many
witnesses
shows
boats
carried
iron
ore
pig
iron
well
produce
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allisonia
new
river
bridge
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radford
hinton
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stations
freight
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craft
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secretary
war
appears
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frequently
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moderate
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abundantly
throughout
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use
river
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navigation
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western
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ferries
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one
bank
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instances
boating
along
stretch
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made
moore
briggs
general
assembly
virginia
sent
report
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new
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beginning
mouth
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creek
miles
noting
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river
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falls
boat
two
three
instances
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stores
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creek
half
way
stretch
river
considering
virginia
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assembly
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new
river
accommodate
transportation
military
stores
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central
depot
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mouth
greenbrier
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proof
particular
appropriation
spent
reports
war
department
engineers
make
clear
confederate
government
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improvements
river
facts
buttress
testimony
several
witnesses
one
confederate
veteran
civil
war
keelbottom
boats
brought
supplies
radford
commissary
narrows
miles
glen
lyn
continued
downstream
testimony
circuit
appeals
accepted
true
end
civil
war
coming
railroads
evidence
elderly
residents
familiar
events
along
banks
river
radford
wiley
falls
leaves
doubt
least
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transportation
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place
throughout
stretch
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keelboats
radford
hinton
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frequently
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sections
made
regular
trips
allisonia
past
radford
hinton
navigation
however
occur
shown
testimony
number
witnesses
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lower
courts
also
numerous
references
isolated
bits
boating
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parts
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reach
government
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boats
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lead
mines
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various
places
downstream
brought
full
stretch
river
hinton
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supervision
assistant
engineer
derrick
boat
four
bateaux
numerous
flat
boats
skiffs
twenty
vessels
taken
hinton
number
points
radford
accomplished
chief
engineers
report
shows
despite
difficulties
occasioned
low
water
scarcity
labor
addition
testimony
use
days
railways
good
roads
demonstration
possibility
navigation
government
survey
boat
outboard
motor
feet
long
five
feet
wide
drawing
feet
loaded
crew
five
survey
equipment
boat
made
round
trip
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wiley
falls
allisonia
distance
miles
one
way
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river
stage
normal
summer
low
water
crew
boat
used
poles
number
times
carries
portages
going
upstream
necessary
pull
push
boat
mile
quarter
hundred
feet
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trip
use
stream
long
abandoned
water
commerce
difficult
prove
abundant
evidence
fourteen
authenticated
instances
use
century
half
explorers
trappers
coupled
general
historical
references
river
water
route
early
fur
traders
supplies
pirogues
durham
craft
similar
keelboats
new
sufficed
upon
phase
case
desplaines
lack
commercial
traffic
bar
conclusion
navigability
personal
private
use
boats
demonstrates
availability
stream
simpler
types
commercial
navigation
evidence
actual
use
falls
section
commerce
private
convenience
taken
connection
physical
condition
make
quite
plain
reasonable
improvement
reach
navigable
type
boats
employed
less
obstructed
sections
indeed
evidence
detailed
strikingly
similar
relied
upon
establish
navigability
colorado
cataract
canyon
boundary
line
seventeen
trips
period
sixty
years
original
exploration
together
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trips
parts
stretch
considerable
connection
gold
placer
parts
sufficed
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practicability
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means
bring
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river
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navigable
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grande
irrigation
art
iii
section
cl
cf
genesee
chief
fitzhugh
robert
parsons
ex
parte
boyer
marine
transit
dreyfus
montello
wall
economy
light
utah
see
also
justice
mclean
spooner
mcconnell
page
illustrative
natural
growth
cress
involving
riparian
proprietors
rights
improvements
raise
river
level
uplands
newly
permanently
subjected
servitude
public
use
navigation
compensation
decreed
taking
declaration
waterways
question
artificially
improved
remained
navigable
waters
pages
page
cf
arizona
california
cf
barnes
utah
arizona
california
utah
ashwander
tennessee
valley
authority
economy
light
arizona
california
cf
montello
wall
see
page
shown
testimony
weiss
peters
starbuck
lane
smith
farley
kenley
lucas
lilly
burks
burks
johnson
wauhop
stover
calloway
martin
tomkies
lilly
testimony
howard
graham
breeding
owen
farmer
allison
howard
peterson
moore
likens
roop
ingles
assistant
engineer
reported
inquiries
thought
made
former
years
improved
sections
still
keeps
open
bateaux
constant
use
iron
shipped
new
river
bridge
time
suspension
furnaces
prevailing
hard
times
report
chief
engineers
act
june
stat
different
times
ferries
crossed
river
less
ten
points
along
falls
stretch
five
public
ferries
report
moore
briggs
fourth
fifth
annual
reports
board
public
works
general
assembly
virginia
report
principal
engineer
board
public
works
marshall
chief
justice
head
virginia
commission
surveyed
part
new
river
boat
going
downstream
mouth
greenbrier
report
commissioners
printed
virginia
acts
little
done
way
improving
river
since
time
moore
briggs
though
effort
said
made
direction
confederate
government
late
war
report
chief
engineers
developed
universal
fate
work
late
confederate
river
though
seems
injudiciously
located
poorly
built
adverse
anything
like
rigid
structures
report
chief
engineers
testimony
snyder
snidow
skeen
page
see
page
page
testimony
bateaux
going
radford
hinton
given
flannagan
linkous
collins
webb
snyder
boat
feet
gasoline
motor
went
radford
hinton
though
river
materially
raised
rain
testimony
coleman
howard
webb
snyder
price
martin
anderson
report
chief
engineers
see
also
testimony
owen
crowell
dickinson
economy
light
affirmed
utah
see
report
master
et
seq
report
pp
pp
pp
pp
pp
pp
pp
report
chief
engineers
act
june
stat
house
doc
cf
appalachian
electric
power
et
seq
act
allows
commission
regulate
licensee
accounts
limits
licenses
years
requires
commission
approval
voluntary
transfers
licenses
rights
granted
thereunder
amended
requires
project
best
adapted
comprehensive
plan
improving
developing
waterway
use
benefit
interstate
foreign
commerce
improvement
utilization
development
beneficial
public
uses
including
recreational
purposes
licensee
must
maintain
project
adequately
navigation
efficient
power
operation
must
maintain
depreciation
reserves
adequate
renewals
replacements
must
conform
commission
regulations
protection
life
health
property
surplus
earned
first
years
specified
reasonable
rate
return
licensee
must
maintain
amortization
reserves
applied
reduction
net
investment
licensee
must
pay
reasonable
annual
charges
administering
act
first
years
expropriate
excessive
profits
state
prevents
profits
licensee
may
ordered
reimburse
whose
construction
work
benefited
projects
navigable
waters
commission
may
require
licensee
construct
locks
furnish
free
cost
lands
improve
navigation
facilities
power
oeprating
facilities
gives
right
upon
expiration
license
take
operate
project
paying
licensee
investment
defined
exceed
fair
value
property
taken
however
right
state
municipality
condemn
project
time
expressly
reserved
allows
state
regulation
service
rates
none
exists
commission
may
exercise
jurisdiction
denver
stock
yard
pacific
box
basket
white
cf
electric
bond
share
securities
exchange
cargill
minnesota
new
jersey
sargent
section
michie
code
michie
code
cherokee
nation
georgia
pet
west
virginia
new
jersey
sargent
cf
mcguinn
high
point
ashwander
tennessee
valley
authority
new
jersey
sargent
river
rouge
cress
willink
gibson
gibbons
ogden
wheat
gilman
philadelphia
wall
union
bridge
cf
pennsylvania
wheeling
bridge
cf
ashwander
tennessee
valley
authority
greenleaf
lumber
garrison
rio
grande
irrigation
art
cl
art
iv
cl
cf
hanson
cincinnati
soap
cf
sanitary
district
cf
ashwander
tennessee
valley
authority
carolene
products
cf
mulford
smith
monongahela
navigation
ashwander
tennessee
valley
authority
arizona
california
federal
power
act
michie
virginia
code
oklahoma
texas
arizona
california
crowell
benson
utah
cases
cited
rio
grande
irrigation
said
respect
findings
therefore
disposed
question
conclusion
reached
courts
leovy
judgment
jury
verdict
reversed
error
judge
instructions
criteria
navigability
economy
light
facts
affirmed
judgment
circuit
appeals
correctly
applied
test
laid
daniel
ball
wall
holt
state
bank
courts
treated
question
navigability
one
local
law
determined
applying
rule
adopted
minnesota
though
holding
applied
wrong
standard
question
one
federal
law
affirmed
findings
instead
remanding
case
since
record
disclosed
according
right
standard
water
navigable
cf
daniel
ball
wall
montello
wall
oregon
montello
wall
rio
grande
leovy
donnelly
cress
oklahoma
texas
holt
state
bank
oregon
harrison
fite
gulf
ry
davis
davis
gulf
doughton
economy
light