Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-16
THE LEVEE.
Effects Of the Late High WRfer-WhRt
Ought to be Done 10 Save the
North Landing.
what the Little Rock Railroad Com
Pany Is D~oing-DePOt, Platform,
and Tracks.

The high water, contrary to every
body's prediction, has subsidized, and
the "camels' humps" are plainly visible
on the Arkansas side of the great river.
Now, in the middle of May, we may be
assured that the great body of water
which we We're promised from the
plains has found its way to the Gulf of
Mexico, and, while we may have our
usual June rise, there will not be any
overflow such as three months ago was
confidently predicted, and from which
it was feared the mOst disastrous
results would come to the planters
in the bottoms. But, while these escape,
property-owners along our levee front
are not so fortunate. Since the sub
sidence of the water the process of caving
in has gone on at a rate that betOkens a
complete swallowing up of the little that
remains of landing at the northern end
of the city, unless something is done 10
arrest
THE WORK OF DESTRUCTION,
which, though slow, is none the less
sure. At and above the Lawless lot, the
loss is greatest, and even for some yards
south the destruction is apparent.
Where, however, the landing has been
cut and sloped down to lOw-water mark,
aud stone pavement OF gravel has been
laid, the wash is scarcely perceptible.
This would seem to indicate that the
same process at other points, with the
addition of sunken cradles filled with
earth or stone, would be efficient in a V
ing from total loss a portion of the
landing which, through our railroad
system-nOt yet thoroughly united
promises to be the most valuablei in course
of time. OF this there are already in
dications in the Improvements going
on at Center Landing, under the
auspices of
THE LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD COMPANY,
who have a large twO-story frame
building under construction and half
completed, that, it is intended, shall
be used for office purposes. Here will
be a platform and from it will run
several lines of rails, ~cOnverging at
the mouth of Wolf river, where the
company will establish its permanent
depot, workshops, elevator, slip and
boats for transfer purposes. During the
summer months we expect the sound
of the hammer will be heard from day
to day in %unceasing labor until those
great improvements are perfected, by
which "Pirchu is TO receive an impetus
and the equilibrium of growth is to be
restored to the city, which, at n time,
and even yet, threatens extension south
ward, much to the detriment of the
northern end, where
THE IMPROVEMENTS.
are OH a substantial scale. This work
the Little Rock Railroad so early begun
and so vigorously prosecuted, is a cred
liable earnest of the good faith that
has ever characterized the dealings of
this company with the public, and we
are fain to hope they augur well for our
city, the growth Of which, on every
hand, evidenced in the number of build
in course of construction, is
perceptible. With a depot
building and workshops for the Lit
tie Rock Railroad, and similar
for the Memphis and Paducah,
the Memphis and Louisville and the
Memphis and Raleigh (narrOw-guage),
together with the buildings of three of
the largest oil-mills in the South, a roll
.ng-mill, five or six saw-mills, a large
foundry, our only cooper shop, and other
manufactures, North Memphis is and
will be a busy place. Taking as a nu-
cleus what of manufactures is already
under way on its banks, it is safe to pre-
1ict that Wolf river is to be the means
Of great good to Memphis, because the
admirable formation of its banks fits
them as suitable sites for untold num-
Ders of factories of every description.
North Memphis, because of Wolf river,
IS bound to become the manufacturing
of MamOhiS