The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-23
CAPT. EADS JErr1Es.
sIppf Permanently Opened
10 Commerce.
(From the New Orleans Bulletin. ]

ltrom the New orleans Bulletin.
In spite of all carping and croak-
ing, the South Pass has, by Capt.
Eads' jetty system, been converted
within less than year, from q USE
less outlet, with over seven and Q
half feet on it's bar, to q broad
navigable pass, through which Q
sixteen foot vessel has passed. This
has been accomplished by the jet.
ties alone, without any dredging or
following up to this time.
There is depth of twenty-five to
thirty feet of water in nearly the
whole jetty channel, with q short
bar of eighteen feet at its end, and
few Jumps of indurated sand, Of
small dimensions, beyond these, in
the channel. Capt. Eads' Is pre-
pairing sea hollow to scarify these
and promote their dissolution, and
few days work will suffice to give
twenty feet, and shortly after TWEEN
ty-two, twenty-four, and even thir-
ty will be successfully attained.
The jetties are not yet completed,
and the Grand Bayou has not been
closed, and yet over sixteen feet of
water has been actually chenneiIed
straight out to the sea. With lit
tie more work the ietties will be
permanent structures, and if they
have forced the current to scour
through indurated sand, hardened
by the compacting of a hundred
years, and give a channel of twenty
or thirty feet at q time, when the
Mississippi is carrying an unusual
quantity of sediment, and most
likely to shoal at its bar, surely
when the 100000 of cubic yards
of hard bottom has been secured
out and carried away, the Jetties
which have done this will be suffic-
| lent to carry off the mud which
may ordinarily come down in solu-
ton and keep a deep channel.
The bar reported outside toward
the end of the west ietty $50, or, as
Capt. Howell erroneously reports,
1000 feet from the jetty, is an old
lump for which Capt. Eads and the
Jetties, are in no way responsible.
1t was there with 13 feet of water
on it, and containing, down to q 90
foot line, about IL 900 cubic yards
of mud, before Capt. Eads drSve q
stake. 1t has now eighteen feet of
of the ietties has cut it away until
there are but 5 800 cubic yards left
out of II, 900 year ago. 1t will
soon disappear. AS to the shoaling
of the sea at from 21a to miles out
to sea mentioned by Capt. Howell,
Capt. Eads has nothing to do with
that. Howell thinks theIGulf there
will shoal up to 20 feet in about
eighteen years of high flood. 1t it
did it would be godsend to ships,
as with plenty of deep sea room in
front of the jetties of so to 800 feet,
such bar would afford protection
| to vessels anchoring outside.
In point of fact however, such
bar or shoal is there, it has come
from PASCAL Outre, and now that
| the jetty current is turned upon it,
it will soon wash away. The very
latest surveys made by the Coast
Survey and Capt. Esds's engineers
in the last few days shew that the
jetty current, now sixteen to eigh-
teen feet deep and one thousand
feet wide, drives far out to sea in
solid bulk, like the stream from
the pipe of fire engine, and at two
and half miles out the current is
still three feet per second, suffic-
lent to scour out channel there if
necessary
So vanish, as have vanished one
by one, the arguments and fallac-
ious theories set up against the jet
ty system.
The South Pass is now the only
permanent and unobstructed outlet
for deep vessels. The Southwest
Pass which we were promised
should be kept open to twenty feet
by the drudges, is now, or was yes
terday, blocked up by the ship Bir-
mingham, drawing only seventeen
and half feet. An eighteen foot
vessel could go to sea by the South
| Pass.