Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-29
DEEP WATER.
~. difference Between the Theories
Of capt. Eads and the Govern
ment Engineers.
r.. South Demands two Perfect HarbOrs,
One East, the Other West the
Mississippi,
g,yas Loses ss,OOO,oOO Annually for
want ola Harbor-Judge Reagan
and his Troubles.

..,ol correspondence OF the Gazette.
en-. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 25.--There are
.,dleal differences of opinion between
r,pt Eads and the board Of govern
.,ent engineers. Worse than this, pro-
ssslonsI and official vanity was pro-
6andly wounded, originally by the
olepdid achievement of Capt. Eads
the mouth of the Mississippi.
rhere in contravention of their
theories, philosophy and protests, he
r.sd the forces of the river
md of the ocean tides to make
sufficient ship channel for
,be worlds navies. Here stands the
mod erat Reconsideration that Can't.
Eads is thorough master of the laws
bvdrodynamics. He can anticipate
Win unerring accuracy the result of
,he creation and action OF river and
oeean currents. Expenditures, how
srer great, and results, however grand.
we're measured with as perfect accnra-
IN before as after the jetties a. the
Balize were perfected.
Tug DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EADs AND
THE ENGINEERS.
II thus happens that when Capt.
Fqds comes before the country, at the
.olicitation of the people of Texas, and
proposes, as they request, 10 perfect
br galveston mueh-needed haven of
,ecurity for sea-going vessels, and
vhen that task is proposed to be exc
fnted and way OF ingress and egress
bl the largest ships is TO be perfected
I'M Capt. Eads, and when the accept
Ince of this proposition involves by
|nnuendo the condemnation OF
tedious, unavaillng processes of gov
|ernment engineers, no wonder that
Cant. Esds is mercllessly assaulted.
There are clearly defined differences
between the plans and theories of
|Cani. Eads and those Of
me government board of en-
gineers. They propose to give
,iialyeston harDor only eighteen feet
Of water while Eads would give IL
thirty feet. They would have Texas
nrodIcts and cotton and cattle paying
The highest, and Eds the lowest posse
BE rates Of ocean freights. They
would lave Texan products exported
at "retail," while Eads, in the greatest
ships that pillow the sea, would send
F. forth crops and cattle in bulk"
THE PEOPLES TRUE POLICY.
Tbs MIN -ence in ultimate cost 10 the
Dom nm roe n II, ss, of the two modes
4 Of exportation of Tue products Of the
.etate, Is such tGat il wete VISIT If the
engineers' plan cost nothing and Eaus
milan ten millions. To adopt the plan
.of Eads. Cotton, wheat ana DeeI pro
|duced in Texas to compete IN the
worlds markets with like a. PRODUCTS OF
other countries must have ia cheap
lest possible routes and agen-
cles of transportation. The greA, est
ships that pillow the main, If Eads may
give Galveston harbor depth of thir-
iy instead of eighteen feet, as c0ntem-
plated by the government engineers,
will be freighted by elevators and
Without subsection to taxation by a
wharf company. Railway trains from
all states and territories west OF the
will have their freight
b. elevators 10 "Great
Easternsn anchored beside or at the
very termini of measureIess railway
lines.
GREAT SHIPS FOR A GREAT COUNTRY.
No shallow estuary eighteen feet
|deep Is wanted, no little ships of two
thousand tons burden are sought to be
.inducted into the roadstead of COM
mercial emporium TO which ten mill
lions of people within ten years, will
send all exportable products of their
toll. "IIive and let live" will be the
maxim of craftsmanship, as IL Is Of
generous and just philanthropy.
When "Afrira was annexed" the
unity and brotherhood of the human
race was asserted in the organic
law of American union and
mo tariff or other barriers to trade can
be suffered TO initiate AGAINST perfect
|cOmpetition and the perfect develop
ment of every race and every natlOn-
fAlty. Texas and the West must nave
perfect access to the worlds markets
UNCLAIMED IDEAS.
government engineers are proCucts
pf West Point. They are guided oy
Fixed written codes of hydrogIapllc
hnd other thinking. They have E1gidy
defined methods OF improving haEoors.
They have a system Of doing out
money to harbors in sums proper,
tioned, not to necessities OF states anu
people, but to che magnitude and loea-
|tlon Of cities.
The same sum, enough to apPease
the laborers and mob of Mobile, Is
launched annually into the bay IN
front of that city. And yet II SHIPS
drawing thirty feet could enter mobile
harbor, million more cotton oaiss
would be thence annually eXpOT1eu.
The people would save 81 80 at least
on each bale, such being the diiieI-
enee in the cost of transfer OF pale o.
cotton by water and OF one py ran
from Mobile to New York. un
Government engineers and poiiu-
clans never contemplate facts OF tnls
character. They never get out OF tne
ID ruts. They never dream OF Practl-
/, good to be achieved by. Legislation
Il the one hand, or by harbor-making
III the other. IT Is simple, endless
I'm, We with the unthinking, rotary
Issu ,e engineer bureau and the CON
srssa n, il he may conciliate VOTERS
4 ns~fno ly blest.
r'siecl IE COTTON GROWER, ~.
If ~ k, vivacious,. irrepressltpi.s .
Dew.a IrA man should thrust M