New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-20

taking. "ades.
At present the numerous tunnels.
radiate from the main shaft are wei, n;ssa
sequence yet unfinished is the bor;na. co.
| apertures to he used for the final Sio VI tas
the fourth Of July, 1876. Six mach;assaa
employed daily for this purpose. The ha'aA
being conducted with great cant;o
the she'll of rock remaining betwea- E
roof of the tunnels and the waite, ~ A
should be pierced prematurelv, a. H.oo,s
| thirtysix tunnels or galleries which IN
| from common centre, twelve srs
200 feet in length, and one, the larc.os.se
fraction over 3l5 feet. The total arosesi
length is more than $500 feet. In the s rssa
which approaches nearest to the saue1
is little less than seven teat u1s
| others it is ten, twelve and n
| fifteen feet. Over G0,OOO cubic r ovS
of rock have been excavated TINS q: ysga
total weight of which amounts 10 no,',Me
than 10000 tons. To the south of tho ss s ley
shaft are three huge embankmen,s os ian
stone from $50 to 400 feet long, ten to tn oSse
feet high and twenty five feet thick nj ~
which has been taken from the shat. 10y 10y
it's submarine galleries To the norshu aug
are four similar embankments. one Of wh;s9s
is 1000 feet long by fully ten feet in bs;a iOa
after settling some nine feet in ths suI
swampy soil around the Point. All hi, I Sa
been accomplished by force of mt mug ass
than 10 men, and which has never dns" .e
the past two years exceeded $50. ali ,oIy
For a large part OF this period the pro ant ~
been practically abandoned for want ~
funds, so that the average of WORKING W..
since the commencement of the excava,.V
in 1869, has not exceeded four wears Ta
great ally in the prosecution of the vh,k bus
been the use OF the new patent air ilrl, e
apparatus by which progress through u, iIa
solid rock has been accelerated ten old ov ra'
the old method. A single one of these dill.
WORKED continuously will perfo.ats ,h;,,s
feet OF rock in eight hours, where BY mama,
labor the entire distance achieved wemId i.
less than two feet. At Hallett's POM aao -
machine bores five holes two inches in Al.
meter and six feet deep daily. In due tim.
these will be filled with the explosive mo
terial-nItrO- lycerlne or dynamita-tnH 4.
used III making the final blast. Each M.
chine employs a force of ten men IN wors
ing, and as the water is CONSTANTS f.lGn. i.
from the roof above, and the greatest cars
is necessary in handling the exposivs
agents, the work is by no means OF A bol'
day order. The men. OF whom l7j are nov
employed, receive 81 - per day of tipb,
though better than that of their comraSa.
on private works.
In addition to the main shaft and vol
leries already described, operations hsya
recently been commenced on Flood Rock
distant ooO to 600 feet to the west Of thu
point. Here the work of blasting has beer
going on briskly since Monday last. ovar
100 cubic yards of solid rock being removed
already. This part of the He'll Gate inn
provements will be still more important
than that now nearing completion. The
present channel between Long and Wards
slands, though fifty feet deep in soma
places. 10 narrow and tortuous in the ex.
RENE. and has from time memorial been
he terror OF Eastern shippers. In form il
assemblies the letter s. and as il ia in M
,lace more than 200 or 80 feet in width. the
which beset the navigation of the
iate are of no ordinary kind. By the i'm.
)roVements now in progress ali this will be
changed. aud instead of a narrow and
'ramped channel, broad water wav LOO 4
Get wide. and twenty-six feet deep in the
hallowest parts, will be open to shipping,
The narrow parts opposite Hailett's Point
viii be enlarged to like dimensions. and
ther obstacles to navigation which have
Q long infested the surrounding waters, be
Once open throughout its entire
ength, the Gate will become much NOR
opu'ar as a channel to the ocean, the sSe.
er afforded by Long Island being an i'm
crtant item in the consideration of Eastern
ound shipmasters. Residents in the vi.
nifty OF Astoria and Hunter. Point an
READY building largely on the promises
nus held out. Many of the more sanguine
nticipate the removal of large Der cent.
ge OF the warehouses and shipping from
rookiyn and South street, to the ample
ater front afforded by the shores OF the
asst River in the vicinity OF Hell. Gate
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