New-York tribune., 1867-07-26
IMPROVEMENT or THE JERSEY COAST
STRUCTURES AT COMMUNIPAW COVE--THE TIDES
AND CHANNELS OF OUR HARBOR-GREAT
WORKS PROJECTED.

STRUCTURES AT COMMUNlPAW COFE-IHE lipEo
AND CHANNELS OF OUR HARBOR-GREAr
WORKS PROJECTED.
For twenty years past, in the matter of inn
provement public attention mas been directed to the
5000 acres of lying south of Jersey city covered by
the water Of Commumpaw Cove This water has an aver
ace depth OF not than five feet at ebb tide The
lands are Of immense and growing value, and their prox
unity TO the terminal points Of numerous transportation
companies which connect with other grand enterprises
whose lines radate far and wide and the fact that the
commerce Of New.York must seek ts increased facilities
on the opposite shores OF Brooklyn aud HeH-Jer
sey, make them always an object OF interest," 10
capaists are anxious TO see What can be practically
copished there and arc trying TO c9ntdaSc @ M WIN tue
Central Railroad Company and the American Dock ana
Improvement Company which nearly identical IN the
property held by then' possess water lqht Sl
thing like three miles ana haI EXTENDING % IYm tnc @
Morris Canal property 90 Caven Point These parties are
making headway In giving the land an improved appear
The Central Company have already hou III q con-
constantly employed. In short time they VIII
commence erecting buildings Sn % tho iaGa 80 80
melaA.a. IAea VIII on4 aIhow warebouscs p until tho
whole water front from the Morris Canal BASIN TO
Caven Point Is rendered valuable TO commorch uses
There viii be an average depth OF twenty-five eet Gi
watcr-this depth 10 bo obtained by dedglhg-lD
s 10 be sHe created s "n Tho w Whole @ work viii cost millions
OF dollars. To the north OF CaNen f0nt ana
for the storage OF oil Is in course OF erection One Of It's
iron tanks alone win cost 10000 The building VIII De
tho Morris Canal COmpauys property no great change is
visible. Nevertheless the Company's chef officers say
that they have under consideration plan To improve an
the property In Their possession, ana thaJ
thCy will COMMENCE this work. which involves the eIee-
adopted by the Board of Directors by an act OF the
legislature approved March 49, 1867. tins company got
further supplement 10 their charter which grants 10 them
All right, tite and Interest of The state TO certain
lands under water within prescribed DoundaIes ot the
=, h & ~ an times for he usrs OF commerce. The
GnfTI are I II
present gaps iu the estery aud westerly bukhead "a,
of i5 fect in width and Ike ps, any structure 90 he
erected by them on the premises which have been granted
by the state, that the public may win all vessel.
freely gate TO and iiOm the channel Of the Hudson
River and All places cast aud OF the westerly bulk
head above named without the payment OF tolls or
charges In consideration of these grants the Company
has 10 pay to the state the of $4,000 per annu,
which 4 supposed 10 toward iquidang the state debt
and North Rivers have within the ast thirtyone year,,
done amount Of damage that Is but very impcFlecy
understood by the public at large sandy HOOK - s0Wy
stretching out into the harb0r, AZ the rate OF mile IN
sNtecn years and point north OF ne ne Hook rs now now
according to the sonndugs OF Capt Godnoy had i9ry
haitian idea Of rcclamiug land In the harbor instead OF
requiring the formation of extensive wet basins Parties
who have studied this subject carefully declare positively
that IN time 10 come le rDor VIII nave 10 DC cleared on
the ngn distractions which are going on now. III is
we're absolutely ruined 9y ihe plnh OF r.clSlhhS lAhu
the water II - held that 10 have an cbb tide ade
quato the purposes OF commerce, there must be great
area over which the TIDE may How, ana III Whcn
when 10 flows out 10 viii perform the operation topehg
the ocean depends tho keeping open OF the channels at
sandy Hook Attention has been called TO the fact that
massive budngs only firm enough In the ntth cen
tury sustain light and fragile huts and at the com
by vessels every directions and also that the city OF Ra
VIENNA In the time Of Augustus, which then great
naval depot, situated at the extreme OF swamp on
the River Po and could be approached only by olc-
waited mound causeway. RIvenna now mile from
fields and It's ancient paw lies eight feet below the
surface Of the ocean. The same powers which effected
the between Jersoy City and New York is about one
mile ana the average fso ana ta OF tho .ue ls or i1
mile north Of spuyten Duyvl Creek the weight OF
water that flows In with every tide s 100000 OF tuns
No part OF the harbOr Of New York appears so well
adapted 10 the increased facilities which the
commercial Interest Is now seeking as the CQmmnnpaw
easy OF by vessels coming In and vessels
outward bound can sail thence with any wind except an
from the shores OF Now-Y0rk and Brooklyn. The NUS
nsos which now lire the North aud East rivers ought to
have been removed long ago, and their stead occupied
by solid and substanta al docks, on the plan OF those
OF london Liverpool and other European p%aIo com, Sa
ut fabulous cost In London, where sim
liar course was found necessary, millions Of dol,
removing structures which stood in the way of the pro
ected Improvement The London docks were erected at
the great OF 100000. One thousand two hundred
and nifty houses which had been vacated by lSOO pto
pie, were taken awGya Beside 81 kathernes Hospita,
that NewYork will continue its docks and piers as they
SDS Cavs Snd gSe o%anns lands that the foreign
shipping interest must seek for and nd the facilities they
much need to-day. The magnitude OF the interest on
the Jersey City side is much greater than at Gowanus
There Is question that the warehouse system can De
immensely extended a this port and carried with the
greatest success and that warehouses will be In good
mandat Jersey City and GOwanus are tho commercial
docks opposite London the south side OF the Thames
and at kenhead on the west side OF the Mersey, Op'
poso Liverpool At Liverpool and other English ports
the great Of the tide rendered necessary an enormous
outlay but at Jersey city difference Of the hight Of
the tide between food and ebb Is not than hye feet
According the Habor Commissioners report there are
all times an average about 10000 tuns OF shipping
I'm this port onethird of which has TO encounter the most
dsagreeabo advantages incident 70 the lack OF proper
facilities New-YOrk capitalists know this and are en-
deayorng remedy tho evil by extending the docks ana
piers into the adjacent waters.