New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-11
HECApIrCLATI0S.
The Gulf Coast Lighthouses.

Inc Mobile Register is indebted to Gen
exaI Simpson, United States army, tor the
following interesting information concern.
ing the eighth lighthouse district:
This district, in charge of General J. II.
Simpson. corps OF engineers, as engineer,
principal Office at Mobile, Alabama assisted
nv Major A. M. Damrell. corps Of engin-
GERS. in charge Of sub Office 1T New Or
Jeans, Louisiana, under the supervision OF
cbe Lighthouse Board at Washington, eX-
lends from Cedar Keys to the Rio Grande,
embraces fory-seven lighthouses and
lighted bcacons, fifteen day or unlighted
s,sacons, one light-vessel, one steam tender,
sseranium, one steamtug, JOY, six schooners
Magnolia, Florida, Polaris, Lyra, Arcturu5.
Orion, and SIX launches, Surprise, Sunset,
Yharos, Susan, Corinne and Minnie.
T;a.-nu.aber of new lighthouses ordered
nv the Lighthouse Board, and for which
appropriations have been made by Con
srszss, ia seventeen, and their localities anu
descriptions are as follows:
BATTERY GLADDEN., ENTRANCE OF MOBILE
HARBOR, MOBILL EAI.
4 fourth order fixed light, surnounting a
es2Isre wooden dwelling, supported by five
sux, screw piles; height OF focal plane above
mean low water, forty seven feet; will be
spagn twelve nautical miles. This Lighthouse
2sza already been built. and will be exhibited
3or the first time april s, instant.
MOBILE POINT, MOUTH OF MOBILE BAY.
a fourth order fixed white light sur
sa2oInting Il Gecagonal iron skeleton struc
.nre, to he erected on southwest salient Of
Fort Morgan. Focal plane iifty-one feet
s3ove r,can low water: will be seen twelve
.aaad q half nautical miles. This structure
rs already under contract at the North .n,.
preparations for its foundation and tie
i;Ght-keeper's dwelling are already in pro-
,srvess.
SIND ISLAND, AT MOUTH OF MOBILE r,T.
A first order fixed white light: focal plane
40 feet above mean low water, will be seen
seventeen and half nautical miles; tower
90 be the trustrum OF a cone. and built of
brick, superposed on foundation of piles
driven about twenty feet. grillage. under
water supported by the piles. and the whole
20 he covered with eleven feet of concrete
fTfiis work is now under construction the
piles have been driven, the grillaae and the
concrete about being spread. General
3,inpson expects this light to be exhibited
early next autumn.
WEST END OF CAT ISLAND, MISSISSIPPI SOUND.
A fifth order fixed light, varied by flashes
sgery minute and half surrounding
square wooden dwelling. supported by five
lron screw piles; focal plane tOrty-tiye feet
3,oDSc mean leVtt OF mo sOuuu, Can Dc sccH
~sleven nautical miles. This lighthouse was
finished and illuminated for the first time
OFT the fifteenth Of December last.
BoyET AUX HERBEs, FOOT Or LAKE POINT
CHARTRAIN, SOUTH SIDE.
This light will be probably Of the sixth
afcer, surrounding square dwelling sup
Ssorted on brick piers, resting on eighteen
1Eches OF concrete, and on a platform under
wafer comprised Of two courses of timber,
aaSd side by side and crossing each other at
right angles. Plan not yet authorized by
aae Lighthouse Board.
SOUTHWEST PASS.
This lighthouse, which Is to exhibit a
Il xca white light of first order, is to be an
yr0n skeleton structure standing on fouu-
cation of piles, timber grllage, below water
sevel, and concrete. and provided with an
interior vertical shell or cylinder of iron for
spiral stairway, and dwelling two stories
nigh to be made of boiler iron and built
within the skeleton, twenty-one inches
above the base of tower Focal plane of
tight one hundred and thirty feet above
sieau low water. Will be seen seventeen
aa;d one half nautical miles. The fcunda
CON Is now ready for the iron structure, to
lse completed under contract at the North
Wy the first Of May next, when the work will
re resumed. \ steam FOG whistle apparatus
rs. also about completed at this station. One
! q also to be Immediately set up at Pass-a-
4'0utre light station.
TIMBALIER ISLAND,
&Esaut fifty miles west of tho mouth of
iy15tthwest Pass of Mississippi river. This
lighthouse will be like that at Ship Shoal.
:ssenpt that it will be of the first order, SUI