Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-29
NEW ORLEANS.
Past aBd Preseat Fortunss-A GIiy's
Suicide.
How to Remedy CaIsmIlles Impending ever
The Unfortunate CIty-It Should be the
eatsway d al Emplrs to the Sea.

How 10 Remedy gaIamltles Impending ever
The Unfortunate Clty-It ShsHld be the
eatsway Of an Emplrs to tie Sea.
How Profoundly NV Orleans slesrs.
Thirty years ago, the entire trade Of the
West belonged TO New Orleans. Her pso-
pie went to sleep with the happy thought
that, so long as Natures great river
swept on to the Gulf, that, like drift in its
waters, the commerce Of the West would
continue TO float down to them, because
there was no other way for it TO 90; but,
with The aid of railroads and canals, this
vast trade has besn diverted from its nat
ural course TO New York and the East,
while New Orleans still dreams on, and
Is consoled with 3 few bales of cotton,
which 1t costs more to produce than they
viii commando the market, and delights
IN mud bars or dams across the mouth of
The Mississippi, small ships, toW-bOaJ
companies with their dredging contracts,
wharfage fees, hospital dues, stevedOre
rings and other ex~CortiOnata charges and
expenses, as If their object was to drive
the little commerce remaining away, in
slI amounting to fully ten dollars a ton, to
be paid every time a vessel enters and
clears from that port, 1t thus becomes the
most expensive commercial seaport In
the world, whereas it should be the
cheapest, and can be 80 made.
THE REMEDY.
Why not build a large and deep ship
canal from Barratavia Bay to the Missis-
sippi river, opposite New Orleans2 1t
will not be more than twenty miles long,
and is by nature already half made. The
route viii be one continuous chain of
lakes n bayOus from ten to twenty feet
deep, and from fifty feet TO one mile wide
up to within six miles of the river, where
IL enters the Harvey canal, now used con-
stsntly by hsh and oyster schOoners.
HOW TO DO THE WORK.
With The OsgOod dredging boats this
canal can be made at little cost and In a
short time, the mud taken out placed on
both sides, forming permanent embank-
ments; on these build railroad tracks, on
which, with heavy locomotives. in two
hours, a two thousand ton ship, at an ex-
pense of nifty dollars, can be towed
through to the river, and then a tug, for
ten or twenty dollars more, will place the
ship at the New Orleans wharf. The
psnse both ways will not exceed one hum
bred and fifty dollars, and only require
from four to six hours. Now it requires
as many days, and four Thousand i've
hundred dollars.
IMMENSE SAVING TO WESTERN COMMERCE..
AAA9 91HAAE akb4b Will LuEu Lu6 kEANH
and all other freights south. This big
canal will admit greet ships, such as the
Great Eastern, to New Orleans. Then,
with big ships to assist our bigirOn steam
boats, or floating warehouses, with all
proper appliances, to handle grain in
bulk, wheat can be transported from
Cairo to Liverpool or Continental Europe
for ten cents q bushel. Then Mr.. Higby's
great elevator will become profitable.
The saving thus secured to the farmers
OF the West in the single article OF wheat
IN n year will more than pay for the
building Of this canal.
WHO TO BUILD IT.
But IL is not TO the farmers ofthe West
that yOu should look for help, but to
yourselves. Let the city of New Orleans
and the State OF Louisiana build this ca
nal and make it nOminally free at once.
and you VIII have your money back in
less thar i've years. Your property will
increase IN value fully ten per cent, Der
snnum, or double every ten years, as also
will your population.
Do this, and then you can without in
t8rlering with the channels of commerce..
turD the Mississippi into Lake Borgne.
which viii not only add the of
Alabama and Florida TO your business,
but forever lower the Mississippi river to
Underwater level; entirely relieving the
city and the lower coast from overflow:
doing away with taxes to build levsss to
support engineers and levse companies.
Tho canal, say thirty feet deep by three
hundred feet wide, with a road stead to
deep water, with deep and cOmmodious
harbor, break water, railroads, lOcomo-
lives, etc, will not cost q sum greater than
six millions of dollars.
THE RESULT.
Make this canal and you will control the
anumnnnaIa AF #La AHu--a-.s-s IN
which, in less han fifty years, will con-
tain a population Of one hundred millions
OF working people. Do this and no uombi-
nation Of men and money can keep il away
from you. II you fail, you will control
nothing. Do not be- longer lulled to slesp
by appropriations to dredQe the mouth Of
the Mississippi. The men who ask
these appropriations know they will
do no good, as well as all the
men in Congress who vote the money
which costs them nothing, while at the
same time they grow rich with their rail-
roads and canals, while they have de-
pTived you of the Western trade. Ask
the men who vote these dredging sppro-
priatiOns to vote for money to build this
canal. See if they wOn'G lind some OBJ
lection or hatch up some excuse not TO do
II. Tney will first want TO send some of
their Washington City engineers (WhO
hsve already heen a curse to the country
to see if the route is practicable. with in
structions before they start to report
against It.. The railroad and canal inter
est Of the North, in and out of Congress,
Wall street bondhOlders and stock-job-
bers, viii oppose the scheme. Look well
to he motives of men at home who will
oppose you. You will find them con-
trolling great commercial interests and
exercising powerful influences in your
Chamber Of Commerce. They will switch
you off the track, If possible.
Say nothing to Congress. Let New Or
leans go to work, make the canal, reduce
wharfage, hospital and other charges, do
away with all distractions, rings and IN
necessary eXaetions on commerce.. Make
everything cheap. Let big ideas control
actions, and you Will soon realize
big results. Vioksburg, Memphia, Cairo,
Louisville, Cincinnati, PittsburR, st. Lou
is, Chicago, and the entire country, are as
deeply Interested as you are, and are
ready to render any assistance whenever
you make the beginning. J. G.
TIE styles Of the season at Lsidv & Co.'s