The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-12-25

| that so successful NJ the mouth OF theMis
sissippi,to obtain deep waterover the bH
at tho entrance to Galveston hagcOr, III,
cost to b. $7,5C0,cO0, provided he is sue
oessful-nothing il he tails. This isouj
understanding of the proposition. IL Il
not necessary 10 discuss the feasibility
Of CarT. EAps' plan, although we hay,
not the slightest confidence In il, anC
can give satisfactory reasons for on
lack of faith. Suppose he should sue
coed, and success is the objectionabl,
factor in thu case, IT would cost the
general government S7,5OO,OCO
II the general government
should expend 81, 100000 (one-half of it,
annual expenditures on the harbors and
rivers Of tho entire country. on Calves
ton harbor, how much could Sabine
Pass, the mouth of the BraZos, Pass Ca
Grande expect? These la-t-named har-
bors are all important, all deserving OF
improvement, Tor large scope of cou,i-
try is dependent dir, city upon them for
an outlet aud inlet occauward. Is IL
just, equitable aud proper To starve five
sixthS of the state that one.sixth may
be fattened aud enriched? Now, the
HERALD has before said, and +, iterates
it, that the Galveston News, in its deep
water edition, demonstrated beyond
csvil and the possibility of successful
contradiction. the Importance and ne
cessitv to eighteen or 'enty states
aud territories other than Texas. of
deep water seaport somewhere
an outlet and inlet to and
from the seaports OF the world for the
immense, the well-nigh incalrulab-
trade If these states and territories. The
News did not show, however, that Gal.
weston was the point for the establish
mem of that seaport. 1t did not do 80
because, great as il is, II cannot achieve
impossi bilities. Why is net Galveston
the bost point at which to attempt to
make great seaport? CAPT. EADs
says it will cost ~ 100000 to do it. This
will deprive for years every other sea
port on the c. asst of Texas from any APP
preparation for Improvement whatever.
This would be unjust and wrong. CAPT.
EADs's estimate is too small, tor twice
or thrice, or twenty times ", 500 OOO will
not make of Galveston harbOr such u
seaport rs the trade of the scope Ofcoun-
try outlined by the Galveston News in
its special edition will demand.
CAPT. Upton WALKER, an engineer,
who built or helped to build
the Galveston, Houston & Henderson
railroad between Galveston and Hous-
ton, and one OF the most learned, skill
full and scientic, AS we'll as practical en-
gineers ever in Texas, made survey
of the bar at the mouth of the BrazOs
river many years ago, and he found
that this bar was formed principally oi
sand brought by ocean currents from
the mouth of the Amazon river and the
bar at the mouth of Galveston h trbor is
formed in the same way. The currents
low inwardly from the gulf, and how
san current, natural or artificial, as
CAPT. e IDS proposes to make by jet
,ios, flowing outwardly, scOur and keep
open channel through bar that is
constantly being made by currents
lowing inwardly? AT Arkansas, on the
I'd inst, sixty one soundings were taken
IlOnL the pilot range over the bar ut
mean low tide, and there was found |
water ranging from 1913 to AS
cot, gain of five to ten |
eet by reason of the government W rk,
o the Corpus Christi Caller say S, viii
My fourteen inches have been gained
m the Galveston bar since work began
here, according 10 the report Of the
government officers, The Arkansas bar
> not formed by sand deposits from the
utside, as is the Galveston bar, princi-
ally, hence the difference in the
mount of work accomplished. Again,
galveston is in the clutches of a monster
the Wharf company, which
axes extorIionately every pound OF
-eight loaded and unlOaded in that
ity on or from vessels. The tax of this
Wharf company on coal brought to that
ity on vessels is 80 cents ton. Sup
ose its charges are 3O.cents, as an aver
ge on every species of freight received
!, and shipped from Galveston, how
luch per annum would the
wenty states and territories specified
y the News as being tributary to
exas seaport, have To pay on their COM I
lerce as tribute to this wharf company?l
or full, succinct and exploit delinea-
on OF the iniquity, the extortion, the
,ullessness, the cruelty and the Oppres-
on of this wharf company, the reader
respectfully referred to the files of the I
alveston News OF few years ago.
there is not anchorage in
de Galveston harbor for the tonnage i
10 trade Of the territory tributary to !
lch seaport as is desired, say twenty a
ye or thirty feet of water on the bar, \
i'll demand and require. The HERALD /
N name the point where the seaport I
quired on the coast of Texas can be ]
i'd should be secured. It IL Sabine 4
iss. This point possesses IN any adj S
ntages over any other on all ?
Q coast OF Texas. The bar is
It an extensive one and 8
soft mud bar mainly, which can a
silly be removed by dredging and s
pt open with securing currents t
sdily obtained. The Sabine and I
,ches rivers coming together form I
bine Lake, and sabine Pass IL the out q