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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5372, 3 September 1904, Page 10

On the CHattoga River, Georgia, are large cotton factories which are run by water power furnished by a turbine water wheel. Not long ago the superintendent of the factory found that something had gone wrong with the power, and the factory had to bo stopped to see what was the matter. The water wag shut off, tho sluice gates raised, the water drained from the canal, and pierhead and the wheel box was opened. Inside were found an enormous number of eels, which were twisted and Jcnotted around the shaft and among the blades of the wheel so as to make the force .of water, although amounting to several hundred horsepower, insufficient to turn the machinery. When the eels were removed they were found to number 160 and weighed £64 pounds, some of them scaling as high as four pounds. The river has long been celebrated for its eel fishing, but this was an unusually large catch.