New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-04
nd repair purposes, I
.vtsind payments on 1
raer to have been duriI
~ follows, viz: I
Tlgs,*A''

e; !:3! ! S: :: 4 4
r. =. liking total amour >s7'' '"
}" Gpany up to Decem .ctus
= : q ,xe the' ,snss
:. 70 Lsves compan3 . naH, ,s,poes'
Rived thirty-four eorpede "A vs. u
; cue yard for all worl r, nnooa ,s''I una :.
olnizstion, and all +peun. a1peYos
tHevee fund is still 80 n
std the company clam % nlIv( |
a nsiderable amount for repairs and n
woes. If so we have no possible mean
asrtaining what this amount is. The 2
bDf cubic yards indicated by the
miioners year by year, during these
yes, as being necessary to be Q
sttted. was minimum of 5000, 900 40
yals per annum. The Chief EngHr
thsStste reports that the work sctal1
do, by the Levee Company for last
thp years has been insufficient t. piacey
the culinary wear and tear of ttpfVeee,
andhat the State is losing gro4every
yea He also informs me that work
don has been let by the Leves }npany
| to sly contractors, and has been ftically
Gro Ned into one hundred wo1 hJdays In
eachtear, between the month"; Novem
Der all May. The largest numl pr hands
ever Employed by tho companIfs 2ooo IN
1872. Last year there were le1 pan looo
emploed. In 1874 the nunifwas still
fewer, because, as stated to IN the re-
port ofthe State Engineers, Fenlten-
tiary hnds built the Newsof pcCuilum.
Bass, nd large portion Pc Hickey
lsvees. besides smaller wofRuring the
summemonths." II
The tct is hardly disef that the
Levee Ompany have faileffve satlsfac- I
ton to, E to secure the copce OF that
class of he community w,(ve the larg-
est interests in the propantenance OF l
the leves, and the BE- eportunlty to e
Judge ofthe work done.
The Chef Engineer df4 State, IN re- .
cent communication on subject, says; =
1t is painfully evidG 4st the present Il
system is Ineffective Psect tne State u
from overflow. and ~ Congress de- y
cline to come to OUT some radical Fl
changes will have to te. p
The Lsvee CompaS nderstand, pro- n
fess a willingness tot 1er their char is
ter on tie payment / Otate OF certain "
claims which they alp De due them for ie
work done, This. 81 question which "
NAV la left for fursknsideration and
action. The imme1ss9 practical point
to be dstermiued,, ia the revenues tn
which th presenthrtnill tax, or less Cd
tax will rield, be euted as to give the by
State mre levee wk|an the Louisiana of
Levee Company lie betofore supplied Gle
I believ. they b. there any better bal
plan WITHIN our a8 l feel confident hill
there is. AS
UTILlzAT1oaoffSvIcT LABOR. exc
The pla, whie ed to me most likely wh
to give in,reasSedfcy and economy to the
our leveesystaua4 SIN the employment Ch'
If the abk bodS q let's of the State. In pol
older co,utriath(F actics of thus en- and
,loying onvrsa has been pursued for 'ne
Years with he1 results. From an boa
,fficial sntemtt to me by the officers con
# the State POI iary, learn tiat leVe
Eey lad uuc charge, on the twen- yeal
ieth Of DeoeSe6 >, $50 convicts, CLASH ior
led as undeIM &554; females, %; able peri
,odied m.la This number of able oia'l
,odied meeu likely to diminish. On palo
he eontraE al eulation increases, and lure
he laws )co1 bore rigidly enforced, ance
be numb Pc largely augmented ""e'
.om yea % +. The federal prison ="
70, mility tcivil. convicted within oaia
lis distct formerly confined in serV'
If Stat P4 tiary, the government 14sse
aging jr support fifty cents q ''me
lad per dsl there would probably be u
objeOon be federal convicts being par'l
deradto ate Penitentiarv aos;n quest
ID wrked Ter proper discipline in 'na'
9 sase NJ as the State convicts Will
snyeve1 the lowest estimate BY an p
O nj. nrA IL ia ha,;avod +ho,o III, sensif
at ,ast Ale-bodiad mon ar.;,.,, The v
: wrk Of levees all the year round. u al
The pen Dry situated at Baton sen'
m, m er ahont tho oon+, 81. the th
ldof Of pms, is most conveniently sinoor
.,d for he of sunnl;es r. a.n. pany {
bats Al = for that purpose. the con- anu p"
!. sook o,.ra.a a.,,is mission
i, no;u o;pt with thu ..1on;.- tainly
sion hillary o,oon;..t;oa system
1atedEhe State Engineer that 500 oai io'
bod; en- will hn;,d 5ooo ..s:s though
8 pa. Experienced contractors ooen u
conJ Dor higher than other labor. 'no .so
StSngineers estimate 1,5OO,O u al
II the ,ovas. .,,onn+ &c board
'sal re built each year. Five hun "0' y. =
cor working but 200 days in the p'o"'n
dtild at least 100000 cubic parry
Of. Seventy cents is believed 0'0noy
affiberal estimate for the cost of sio"'er
s and o,oth;no M. 49, than by
ntracts were made for these 0A"1 Nv
a+ba ,os+ ILL a.. CO.. ever, or
d ,os h. .,., some O
III ,., e 49,. A. am not
+.L;nn &c., 80 A.. date re
Ia ho oonno,,od - 49, Compan
\ .nt;,u 49,. A.. oc- have
"a ha oo,s;,oa - cradle le
Slo7 75o. .dd e.. 400. &c greatest
%, 900, which would probably be oau'o ~
,tata uero ~ ,ron;aa 100 .,o. trust J
convict barges, one to be used So"i o"i'
Mouth of Red river and one be-
ult is an outlay of $l52, $50 per regre
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