The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-04-01
From the yetties.

CONSTANT DEEPENING OF TIE CHANNEL-foUR.
TEEN AND A HALr FggT ON TIE sHoALHsr
PoMT--AN INPRoIPTU EXCURSION IN THK
GULF. .,
lEron the New Orleans Bulletin, March 24th]
PoRT EADs March % Captain Esds and
party went out yesterday morning on his
steam.yacht Julia, and took accurate sousd-
ipgs Of the bar. The water had deePened
materially all over the bar, and the shoalest
sound,ugs, fourteen aud half feet, have ad-
yanced seaward some two thousand feet.
The crest OF the bar is new only about six
hundred feet from the sea-end Of the jetties.
kYessel drawing siIteau feet can 60 down,
at least ore mile further than when the work
commenced. The Eads party went on an
imp. omptu excursion autside, yoYerbauled
the steamship Msrgaret, bound out South
ives, Pass for Havana, and interchange COM
pIimsnts and salutatlons with the captain
and passengers. -: ...,<,,
The work OF sinking mattresses to close.
Grand Bayou commenced to-day, and will
be finished in about three weeks.o This will
defect into South Pass about 30 per cent.
more water, and will greatly hasten the
securing o.twenty feet throughout the en-.
tire length of the ietties. "ati ~ Ss.i 57st'
There Is no reason why sailing vessels or
steamships drawing fourteen feet OF water
should not 60 to sea through South Pass, and
the day is not very far distant whoa South
west Pass and Pass.a-pOutre will be almost
deserted. -.'' -, "a
When the work commenced, on the 18th
Of June last, the crest OF the bar was about
$500 feet long, upon which there was q
depth OF not more than eight feet. The crest
of the bar is now not quite 400 feet long, and
LII Il, ala al 10 rfAn N
feet. On last June the depth Of eighteen feet
could suly be found for 300 feet from the
lxua's end !; on the 7Lh instant it was S,100
feet from lands end.
On the on er side of both the jetties q
solid mbaukment has been formed by the
sediment washing over and swept round in
the edales, and this natural wall Of earth aud
perfect protection varies from lew feet to
sixteen feet in height, shelving, of course,
from each jetty. This outer wall extends
from the lands end to very nearly the outer
ends of the jetties, and renders their injury
BY any storm an imPosstbility. 81, ii. q 30
The amount Of material to be removed to
give depth of twenty feet is 2, 140, 900 cubic
yards. OF this I, 1905 900 cubic yards hayeal.
ready been.removed and only 795, 900 remain
to be eXcavated. .#.G-E i saea ra1 ~ }'e:
The sn,s terai excaVated already would It
is roughly estimst led, fill Canal street.-The
widest avenue in America-ten feet deep for
distance of five miles.
Captsln Andrews, who has immediate
charge Of the work, Intends to buoy the
channel in few days, so that all vessels and
steamers drawing fourteen feet Of water csu
enter and depart through South Pass. The
determined energy, remarkable skill, and in-
defatigaole labor OF this greatest executive
contractor in America, added to the foresight
and genius of Captain J. B. Eads, the fore.
most engineer of the age, will upquestionably
achieve that upen which the hopes and the
prosperity Of New Orleans depend, and
which bss been so long the unsttatned aud
apparently unattains sl =. desire OF, the csm-
uercial world-an ou' g; from the Mississippi
Co the ses sufficiently capacious for the
largest vessels, and eroof against the destruc.
tiss agencies OF time and tide, and .f1uyiatile
deposit.
The storm 90 Sunday was the most severe
felt here for many years. The wind blew
regular gale during the day, and increased
to a terrible storm at night. The water rose
foxr teuths of, foot higher than during
the gale that swept Galveston, but fortn-
nately did little dxmag. to property. A fiat.
boat laden with WiIlows was sunk. and the
steamer Grafton suffered little. Captain
Andrews informs me- that. the waves that
swept up the river were about twelve ieet Ia
height. .r 10 .fs.i ls.tfHE
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