New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-09

dies, Brazil and Europe? The proposed
ship canal between the Mississippi and Lake
Borgne will enable all this to be done; It
must inevitably make New Orleans the
great lumber depot of the South.
The Pascagoula river alone affords thir-
teen hundred miles of navigable water,
and its banks are everywhere lined with
inexhaustible forest. The best pine logs
are furnished at Eve dollars per thousand,
and cargoes of lumber can be loaded at
anyo the twenty mills near the mouth Of
the river at ten dollars per thousand. The
mouth Of the PascagouIa is only one humid
red miles from New Orleans. That i'm
mense region has just been opened to COM
merce by the completion of the Pascagoula
Ship Canal through the shell reef at the
mouth of the river. The canal is one mile
long, sixty feet wide and ten feet deep.
The Mississippi sound is navigable by river
steamboats, and barges.
The forests of the Upper Mississippi are
being fast exhausted. The great West must
soon come to US for lumber, as she now
comes 10 US for cotton and sugar. When
the empty grain barges can be loaded with
lumber at Pascagoula, or in the Mississippi,
at the above rates, who will say that the
demand will not soon reach several hun
dred millions of feet per annum? When
barges loaded with lumber and timber can
be floated alongside the ships in our port,
bound to Brazil, the West Indies and Eu-
rope, an immense impetus will likewise be
given to our foreign commerce.
We add q summary of the advantages
claimed for the Lake Rorgne Canal, from
recent pamphlet by DIR. James 0. Noyes,
the President of the Mississippi and Mexi.
can Gulf Ship Canal Company
l. 1t will shorten the distance by water
from New Orleans to the gulf ports east of
the Mississippi about fifteen miles,
2. 1t will furnish from three to five feet
greater depth of water than the Lake Point |
chartrain route or any canal terminating in |
Lake Pontchartrain or in the Rigolets.
3, 1t will bring the shipments from lower
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida
directly to the levee of New Orleans.
4. 1t will save transhpment of through
frelghls, the carriage and frequent handling
Of which now costs several hundred thou
sand dollars per year. The great West and
vast region east of the Mississippi will be
brought into direct connection.
5. 1t will make New Orleans the great
lumber mart of the South. -
e IL will anoh1a son
ng from ten to twelve feet of water to
all to within fifteen miles of New Orleans,
hereby saving upon all such craft great
art of the cost of towage.
z 1t will contribute largely to the de-
elopment OF st. Bernard parish, through
,hich 1t runs. New Orleans is mainly sup.
lied with fish from Lake Borgna The
egion in the immediate vicinity of the
roposed canal, especially the Terre aux
eufs, is the vegetable garden of the city;
abounds in orange groves and rich plan {
Itions.
8. The proposed canal will shorten by
evenly miles, i. e., by mere than one-hah,
le distance from New Orleans, by direct !
to the deep water of the Gulf I
Mexico. The West demands, as an ont
It for her grain, her provisions and mann
ctured products, tie shortest, quickest,
fest, cheapest and best navigable canal {
tween the Lower Mississippi and the i
ulf. j..
The Lake Borgne canal can be con-
ructed at one-tenth the cost of any other :
opposed canal connection between the q,
Ter and the Cult the company expect g
get to work in January, and to have RI
cir canal ready for use by January 1, G.
20.