The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-19
CONTINUED FROM FIRST p,Grl

| steamer Hartford he says IAN cSamina-
ton OF the log-bOok shows her draft as
follows; March ., 1862, lG #. 4 aft. 10
f. q forward March 10, began working
| Tor the bar; IL, sent four mushrooms and
| chains, six stone anchors, and one iron buoy
| ashore; -, crossed the bar This record
| shows how perfectly reckless these journal,
are in making their statements. The draft
Of the Mississippi could not be asccrtaincd,
but | am informed that the Pensacola
grounded on the BARN fifteen feet of water,
drawing but 10 # 3, on the cath of March,
1869.
WILL TIfE WORK ENDURE
\ piece Of worm-catcn wood, alleged TO
have been taken from the jcttics, has been
shown to these guardians ofthcpubic veal,
and it seems TO have created the greatest
alarm. Numerous essays upon the dcs-
tructiyc character OF the tcredo have cnsued.
None OF these journals, however. has pub
lished the following statement on this point
made by the five distin guished engineers
of the army who were required by congress
TO report upon the jctties last winter:
Experience here shows that far about t.
700 feet inward from the jetty end the tere-
do destroys rapidly all exposed wood Gn-
Guiding in this term the willows OF the mat.
tresses) lying more than four or five feet
below the surface Of the water. Evidence
enough Of It's attack upon the piles and
willows exists But the teredo does not at
tack wood where the free access Of sea-wa-
ter is lmpcded. Those portions OF a stick
buried in mud or sand, or packed around
with mud or sand, are secure. We have no
reason to believe that the, torcdo has penc-
tratcd, or can penetrate, far into the inter
Tor OF the mattress courses. We have pretty
good reason to believe that the foundation
mattresses are and will remain secure; and
probably, also the bulk OF the interior Of
the masses of wilow-work.
Many important works are in exist
ence in Holland and elsewhere. in which
willows constitute large portion OF the work
but no such disastrous results as are pre-
dicted have yetocCurrcd in any one of them
50 far rs can learn. But should the sea ends
OF our works be eaten up by the tcrcdo, il
may comfort these nervous newspapers 10
learn that the law provides that a million
dollars OF my compensation shall be held
as guarantee that will maintain the in.
tegrity OF the jettes against all enemies,
worms included, after their completion, for
100000 per annum for twenty years. Hence
il the worms do not get willows enough
the million dollars reserved must, greatly
to my sorrow, supply the deficiency.
80 REFORMATION OF THE BAI.
In addition to the distress which worms
have caused among the journalists, they are
sorcly troubled about the reformation Of
the bar in front Of the iettics. One of them
declares that Cap. Browns report shows
the average all from June, 1876, to June
1917, from the ends Of the ictties, out one
mile and quarter is eleven feet and seven
inches 1t is needless to say hat Captain
Browns report shows no such thing, If it
did the late board could not have said as it
did, in its report; The actual results
therefore, 50 far As We know them, do not
Justify the predictions of accelerated bar
advance. On the contrary they show dis
appearance Of bar material from the front
Of the jctties"
captain Il'N'll = ~ lI'4 1 VI l'' : lNuu'ltt
TO create the impression that the bar is
forming $4,000 feet out from the jetnes, al
though no survey has been made in front
Of the South Pass since 1875 (thc year the
ietty act wa, passed. except those by Cap
tain Brown and the coast survey, and these
prove that the sca-bottom is undoubtedly
deeper since the construction Of the jctties
than before. Howell likewise predicted
that the "icttics would have 10 be built fur
thor and further out. not annually, but
steadily every day of each year, TO keep
pace with the river deposit into the gulf"
This We have not yet found necessary to
do, the jcttics now being about hundred
feet shorter than they were originally de-
signed. He has simply established new
location for the anticipated bar, and the re-
spectacle distance Of $4,000 feet Tor five
miles from the icttics where it is alleged
TO be informing, should prevent undue anx-
icty on the subject for few centuries to
come
The latest official report of the depth of
our channel is as follows
L, 5, ENGINEERS OFFICE,
SOUTH PASS, la, March ID, 1919,
Editor New Orleans Times:
over South Pass bar the depth of water
at average flood tide, March II, 1879, was
PAS feet. The least width for this depth
was so feet.
At high water oi the day the least depth
was 25i and at low water, 93S feet
At head of passes, March 3, the least
depth of channel at average flood tide was
% feet, at high tide PAS, and at low tide
23,3 feet
certify that the above is a correct
statement. VI. Il. Brown.
Captain Of Engineers, L. 5. \.
Published by order of the honorable sec
rotary Of war,
The Hon G. T. Patterson, superintendent
United States Coast Survey, informs me
that the depth oyer thc bar at Sandy Hook
at low tide is but twcnty-thrcc feet; it
therefore appears that while enemies and
opposcrs Of the .jettics have kept up a per-
Sistcnt and, in many instances, Il most UNI
scrupulous warfare upon the undertaking,
the work has gone steadily ON until it is
almost completed, and already it has caus.
cd the current Of the river to deepen
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