The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-08
Port Eads.
Further Interesting Information from
the City Of the Jetties.

We clip the following interesting data relative
to the jetties from the St. Louis Times of August
5th:
intends to bring to bear all the ingenuity of the
| latest improved machinery, and for this purpose
has secured a portable engine of immense power,
which will run on an iron tramway over the piles,
as fast as they are placed in position. This en-
| CINE will work double pile-driver with circu.
lar saw attachment, so that it will drive two piles
| at once, and by the movement of lever the saw
will cut the piles off at an even grade thus saw
ing an immense deal Of labor and time. 1t is
estimated that with this new arrangement 500 to
600 feet Of piles can be driven in one day.
INCREASE OF FORCE.
The work has now so far advanced that the
force of men will be increased nearly treble dur
ing the next ten days. Mr.. Corthal expects to
be able to sink 400 ineai feet of willow mattress
per day. and this will occasion the employment
Of fully 800 additional men, Immediately. In
driving the piles on the eastern location the
foundatlen was found to be 30 firm that it re-
CURED an everrge of rs blows of $500 pound
hammer having fall of % feet, to drive pile
10 to Is feet. This is
A MOST AGREEABLE SURPRISE
to the engineers, 1t was feared that the nature
of the soil was too oft to allow the pile to retain
a firm hold. Much has been written and the
croakers have had full swing with their ominous
warnings that the jetties would prove a failure,
owing to the character of the soil at the mouth
OF the river, but the farther the work advances
the clearer and more surely it demonstrates the
fact that Captain Eads is right, al ID that success
is inevitable. Already the channel has
DEEPENED OVER FIVE FEET
since the piles were driven, and on the mat
tresses that have already been sunk, there has
sixteen inches per week, while ON their inner side
large bar has formed, with perfect bluff bank,
showing that the cutting OF deepening process is
surely and speedily going on.
BY THE FIRST OF OCTOBER
there is scarcely doubt that from nineteen to
twenty-one feet IT water will be had on the bar.
The companys new tug, the Pres Brearley, from
your city, arrived with 2400 bushels OF coal on
Wednesday last, and her advent was hailed with
rejoicing, she fills the bill to dot. The Graf
ton continues to ply regularly towing barges Of
stone, willows, ETC., and she proves herself as
reliable as when she was similarly employed at
the tunnel and bridge works. Her commander,
Capt. Ruby, has served term OF twenty-three
years on the river, and for the past seven years
has been towing around your harbor. Louis Mo-
rau, the pilot Of the Grafton, is also an old st.
Louis favOrte, and in fact st. Louis is well repre-.
sented in every particular at the jett es. TO
give you an idea Of
THE IMPROVEMENT GOING ON
here will state that work has already COM
menced on a hotel to be liz feet front and 60
feet wide, containing Is rooms, 10 OF them Is by
16, and dining room II by "a surrounded by
verandah. This is to be the general head
Andrewss secretary and representative, is de-
termined that it shall prove both comfortable
and handsome. There are already baker,
butcher, bootmaker, tnware and grocery shops
here, and what is the browning beauty OF the
place there is not a saloon nor drop of liquor
allowed near the works.
The old topers that come down here soon have
the whisky taken out of them, by the salty
breeze, and when the end of the month comes,
they receive their full amount of money, with no
rum debt to act as drawback on their hard
earnings. The health OF the place is remarka-
bic, not single case Of sickness Of any descrip-
ton having occurred yet. One man met his
death by being crushed by pile driver, but that
is the only casualty that has occurred. Fish and
oysters are in abundance, the latter selling at
fifty cents per barrel. The men are allowed two
two hours at dinner time and this tells wonder
as flies round a sugar hogshead, but they have
grown so tame that the men go in bathing with
out fear, and are never bothered by them.
They seem to know meal hours as exactly as
the men, and come swimming round the board
ing boat regularly at meal time waiting for the
been completed from New Orleans to this point,
and as a postmaster hiss also been appointed we
can safely say that Port Eads is q city not to be
sneezed at The ways that have been construct
ed here are $50 feet in length, and are OF suffi-
cient capacity to haul out the barges of the COM
Pauy for repairs whenever needed, besides great
ly facilitating the building OF the willow RATS.
In addition to the barges already purchased,
the company are building six large fatboats,
which will be used to transport stone, etc. On
Wednesday night large party of English capt.
talists visited the jettles, and, after examining
the works, expressed their undoubted convic-
tions that they would prove grand success, and
on their departure were heard to exclaim:
There is but one Eads, and Andrews is his
prophet !"