The Osceola times., 1875-09-11

| the water, which To-Day NJ NOV
Orleans, according to tho govern
ment gauges, is II feet above low
water mark. Now 1t is fully tiv,
feet moro than it was in 1928, anC
tins is the case all the way up &c
Cairo, as proven by letters from
several gentlemen published in the
Avalanche on the 4lh Of July
1874, together with the unmistaka
BILE fact that on lands that wero no,
under water. and on which my
father Kept his stock all through
the high water of 1928, wers sub.
merged fully seven foet in 1867
This vast increase is due in part to
tho lovse system which closed ma
ny powerful and efficient outle,s,
which has caused millions Of tons OF
mud to pass out and augment the
formation OF the bar, followed by
the extension of the rivers banks
at the mouth of the Mississippi,
which would have been prevented
to that extont had the scdimo nj
thus forced down the river be, n
permitted to have passed out
through the outlets, till up and
made valuable thousands OF acres
now IN worthless swamps. Were
1t possible to levee the Mississippi
river from New Orleans to Cairo
and force all the mud out at the
mouth Of the river that now, in
spite OF their Ievses, escapes INTO
and is continually converting
swamps into high lands, quantity
would bo twice S,lSs OS3, S62 Gu.
bit feet pee annum, the present
amount that 10 annually dumped
and forms the mud bar. This Is
equal to ridge one mile long,
one mile wids, by l'0) feet deep,
the ascertained depth OF the Gull,
according to Professor Riddle.
Hence y GU see, that the extension
OF the bar, which. according 10
Capt. Talcott's report, made from
observations for that especial pur-
pose in 1888 and 1852, was equal to
$50 feet per annum will be more
than doubled or one mile in 0Igl t
years with all tho passes open, pro.
vided the levee builders could sue.
cced in forcing all the mud down
the river: showing that at this slow
rate Of extension into the Gulf Now
Orleans will soon be an inland
CITY, with a volume of water in
front that cannot be controlled.
Hence the harmony between the
icvoe rings, tho tow boat pirates
and the trans, continental railways,
us engineered by Eads, who in or.
der to make his jety plan available
even should he get 40 or even 100
feet. At the head Of the Passes,
ID miles above his Jstties, he only
has II feet of water, at the head Of
South Pass, whereas at tho head OF
South West Pass here is So feet, and
u feet at Pass A'loutrs, and to re.
move thls bar that obstructs the
head Of South Pass, be will have
to close both of the othor Passes,
thus forcing all the muddy water
that now flows through all the
Passes, through the South Pass,
which, as before shown, with only
the present amount OF sediment
that now passes out at the mouth
OF the river, will have an extension
Of fully one mile . year. Should
he (to avoid this only have to
close one Of the Passes in order to
remove the bar that is across the
head Of the South Pass, it will be
but \ short time uhtil the South
Pass will have so increased in
length by the jetty process, that
the water will take as q new and
short cut to the Gulf down the
pass that may have been lett open.
SO fix the thing as they will, with
all the success thoy claim, after all,
1t is but temporary and will have
to be abandoned. No matter how
fas; or slow the river extends out,
right where the sediment comes in
contact with tho heavier still, salt
water of the Gulf, there the mud
will drop and form bar pr rscisely
rs II does to day, yesterday, or in
l7lS, when first examined by tho
French engineer, NJ. Paussr. Now
there is no escaping these results.
and in the face of these facts they
would not only force all the ssd-
ment down the river and out at it's
mouth, there to pile up mud
bank so or 80 feet high, by one
mile wide, to obstruct commerce,
by which means they know
t. sy can keep the river com
mercially closed. SO they can rob
the people out of 6O0,000,000 an
nuaily, while they would fence II
volume of water 80 miles wido and
an average of 10 feet deep, when
the rIver is high, between two lev
ees one mile apart, which would
have TO be 500 feet high, provided