The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-20

that this bar was formed principally Of
sand brought by ocean currents from
tho mouth OF the Alnaaon river and the
bar at the mouth OF Galveston harbor is
formed in the sAmo way. The currents
flow inwardly from the gulf, and how
can current, natural or artificial, as
CAPT. EADs proposes to make by jet
ties, flowing outwardly, scour and keep
open channel through bar that is
constantly being made by currents
nowing iRwardly? AT Arkansas, on the
"a inst, sixty one soundings were takon
along the pilot range over the bar at
mean low tide, and there was found
water ranging from 1913 to l4.5
feet, gain Of five to ten
feet by reason of The government W TX,
so tho Corpus Christi Caller says, viii o
only fourteen inches have been gained
on tho Galveston bar since work began
there, according to the report of the
! government officers. The Arkansas bar
is not formed by sand deposits from the
outside, as is the Galveston bar, princi-
pally, hence the difference in the
amount of work accomplished. Again,
Galveston is in the clutches Of monster
monopoly, the Wharf company, which
taxes e&tortionately every pound OF
| freight loaded and unloaded in that
city on or from vessels. The tax of this
Wharf company on coal brought to that
city on vessels is 50 cents ton. Sun
pose It's charges are 80 cents, as an aver
age on every species of freight received
at, and shipped from Galveston, how
much per annum would the
twenty states and territories specified
by the News as being tributary to a
Texas seaport, have to pay on their com
merce as tribute to this wharf company
For full; succinct and explicit delinea-
Ilon OF the iniquity, the eXtortion, the
sonllessness, the cruelty and the oppres-
sion of this wharf company, the reader
is respectfully referred to the files of the
Galveston News of few years ago.
Furthermore, there is not anchorage in
side Galveston harbor for the TONNAGE
the trade of the territory tributary to
'uch Il seaport as is desired, say twenty
five or thirty feet of water on the bar.
Will demand and require. The HERALD
can name the point whore the seaport
required on tho coast of Texas can he
ana should be secured. 1t ia Sabine
Pass. This point possesses ma any ad-
vantages over any other on all
the coast Of Texas. The bar is
not an extensive one and
is soft mud bar mainly, which can
easily be removed by dredging and
kept open with securing currents
readily obtained. The Sabine and
Neches rivers coming together form
Sabine Lakeland Sabine Pass is the out
let from this lake into the Gulf of
Mexico. 1t is several miles long. is q
mile or two wide and OF great depth and
bei'g land-locked, it is ono of the hest
and safest harbors on the entire Ameri.
can sea board. 1t has room for the
navies of the world, and the mercantile
fleets OF every nation on the globe can
mud safe anchorage in its waters. There
Is no wharf monopoly at the pass to
bleed the commerce that may find out
let and inlet AT its quays and docks;
there are no railroad m0nopolies, no
cotton compress monopolies TO bleed
trade passing through its channels. Its
bar can be removed and as much M
thirty feet Of water obtained for less
than one-filth the sum asked by CAPT.
EADs for Galveston. The expenditure
OF this sum will not deprive Arkansas
Pass OF tho mone' necessary to remove
It's mar and make seaport at Rockport
adequate Tor that portion of Texas, and
OF Mexico tributary TO it, nor will it dc
prlye other points on the coast OF aupro.
prlatlons requisite to make them ado
quate TO the local trade round and about
them. Sabine Pass City is on the main
land and not subject to overflow and in
undation, while Galveston is on an
island, over which the waves of the gulf
have washed in times past, and storms
may again engulf it. Gveus the sea-
port by all means, but don't exhaust tina
federal treasury To do it.