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Excerpt from A Diversion Scheme to Prevent Overflows of the Mississippi and to Establish a Navigable Waterway From Mobile Bay to the Ohio River
The elevation at the Southern Railroad station at Burnsville, which is '15 miles in a line following Yellow Creek bottom, from the Tennessee River, is 467 feet (r. R. Survey), which is five feet high er than the railroad where it crosses Yellow Creek one mile east, at which point the railroad track is six feet above the water surface n Yellow Creek, so that here the surface in Yellow Creek is 456 feet above sea-level (supposing there is no disagreement between the railroad and government surveys) giving a fall to the creek of practically six feet to the mile be'w-een the mouth and the cross ing of the Southern Railroad.
The Birmingham branch of the I. C. Railroad crosses Yellow Creek at a point four miles south of Burnsville; at this crossing the railroad track (railroad survey) is 478 feet above sea-level. The track is. Six feet above the level of the creek surface, making the latter 472. Hence, between the railroad points of crossing (if their surveys coincide) the fall of Yellow Creek is four feet to the mile.
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