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<p>Correspondence, memoranda, drafts, briefs, exhibits, reports, and newspaper clippings on the Federal Power Commission's licensing of Union Carbide Corporation's Hawk's Nest and Glenn Ferris power dam projects. Subjects include FPC hearings, history of navigability of the Kanawha River, efforts to dam the Kanawha River, the navigability of the New River, and the New-Kanawha Power Company. Correspondents include H.G. Davis, Russell A. Alger, Homer Adams Holt, Robert C. Byrd, and Jennings Randolph.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="local_LC">Glenn Ferris (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071450" source="lcsh">Kanawha River (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091393" source="lcsh">New River (N.C.-W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Rivers and river valleys.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Union Carbide Corporation - Hawk's Nest Project.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">New-Kanawha Power Company</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78034874" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United States. Federal Power Commission</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Alger, Russell A.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79016398" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Byrd, Robert C.</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95042542" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88295887" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83045964" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998</persname>
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