Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-29

/ VckseerV. and Is the latter place lessen
I the volume Of water four or i've feet
more. Then 81 would not be q very ex-
pansiYe work 70 dam up
Rid RrTER
end turn that stream and all its tributa-
I riasfnto the GulE.thr0uEh the Atchafalaya
aad BerWEckh Bay. BF keeping this vast
make room and inefease tie current, and
/ drawing tbs water on more rapidly from
that above, Sc that up 81 high az Green
( vile the water VIII nos rise by eight feet
IS hiEh ss it new rises. Thus, By COM
msnCi1g at the bottom hrst and working
on up, we have prepared the lower SEC
tion, from VicksourE down, for a cutoff
system, by which the river can be short
eued fully two hundred miles more, in All
thrse hundred miles to Cairo. With this
shortened distance aud
INCsEAsED CURRENTs
the river can new overuoW u
banks and fill up at the Dot
tom az now, but viii continually Ike
a mountain stream, wash out and get
5aaner nj deeper. This plan VIII re-
1 Slain every acre OF and without q foot Of
1 river Ievss, from overflow, that is not be-
low low. water-mark. Treat the Missis-
4 sfnpf river Is YOU would q crooked creek
1 which ovsrh0ws its banks, and you viii
have the same results. But this is too
simpIe. cOmmon-sensed, homes and plain
Tor those would-bs scientihcs, styling
themselves engineers, 20 acknowledge.
II they did, 4" OthellO's occupation would
be gone" for this would forever do away
with their h~umbuggery about leve5s, RS
there would be no use tor them on the
banks OF the Mississippi.
There is another point those
WOULD-BE sCTENTIFICs
never think Of whsn trying TO fence the
river in with levees. Does not everyone
know, who has q particle Of common
sense, that for every additional acre Of
land put into cultivation between the
base Ofthe Aneghenies in the East and
Rocky mountains in the west, to that eX-
tent the surface drainage is increased,
which naturally forces the water
down in the lower valley n shorter time
and greater accumulated quantities.
While by this gradual and steady process
Of s~ugmenting Of water from above goes
constantly on do we find any proposition
made to dispose Of that. water by straight
sning the river, diverting large and pow
srful rivers away from the Mississippi
which would diminish the volume Of wa
ter in the river, making new and opening
old outlets to
CONVEY WATER
from the river to the Gulf, all Of which
would hasten the water on to the Gulf
through 8 hundred mouths and outlets,
instead Of one, which would discharge
the water faster than it could possibly &C
cumUlate, then we VIII have no overflow
But do we hear them talk Of thisf No,
not ID word. On the contrary, they try
&c force all this vast inland ocean of floods
ont through one neck. OvsrtiOws, broken
levess, bankrupt treasures, and a ruined
people is the result,
WILL n BOP EVER
a little common sense3 Why can
they not see that these levee boards
are engineers; are robbing and swind-
ling them all the time, and
there is no end to iJ-thst is, so long as
people viii pay money to keep up and
support this set Of blood-suckers. I say,
again. treat the crooked Mississippi as
YOU would g crooked creek. Begin at
the bottom, cut of its bends, increase the
current, and it will cease to overflow its
banks, wash out at the bottom and get
deeper. Then you end forever the in
fsrnal lsvee system and its robbers.
PLUNIUS.