Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-21

pany, with ITS property valued a, n,tli,,,,.
VI uoilars, would contribute llbersIi, :,
secure deep water on the bav front ~,
oause a transfer Of the shining ~ the
suli side OF the island by building riers
Moutu totally ruin the wharf comnanv,s
now valuable property.
Christi Caller believes tbc bnildi,a - w ,,,s
,,s n antonio and Aransas Pass railroad
I IT. III soi'e thc deep-water question for
should be interested in Aransas pass
and It win be the deep.water morn of tn
/ as In the near future
san Antonio Times; We remember worry
wei the sneers of the Galveston News
anu oil some other Texas papers at those
VINO dared to oppose the deep.water
scncine, as unjust TO all other Texas
ports. Things are turning out as we nrr .
ulcted. Galveston has suffered immeas.
uraoly from the unwise attempt II made
auu VIII suffer far more. The Times
uoesnt rejoice over that, however. or
oyer the downfall of a rival, but It does
/ IKE 10 see these efforts TO gobblc up All
inc earth and a few other planets beside
come to an utter collapse.
Houston Post correspondence, Comm.
l ma, Sept. To- Referring TO your article
on deep water on the Texas coast In n
late issue, you seem to think Sabine Pass
superior to the Brazos In the facilities
ohered for deep-water harbor. In this
thlnk you are mistaken. The Brazos is
lhe only river of any considerable size i'm
Texas that discharges its waters directly
INTO the gulf. All the others lose the
force OF their current in wide shallow
bays before reaching the gulf, and thus
are deprived of the velocity necessary to
the purpose of cutting Il deep channel
through the bar
Az the BrazoS, the crest of the bar is
less than one mile from che main land.
and the soundings on either side the chan
mel nowhere more than nine feet, not
more than six feet average, where the
lettles should be laid. SO that less than
two miles of jettes, of average height
not more than six or seven feet, is all
That Is necessary to secure deep water on
this point.
After crossing the bar the depth OF
water in the river for probably fifteen or
twenty miles Is not less than twenty-five
feet. think it is not less than thirty
feet, and up TO Columbia, the terminus OF
the international & Great Northern rail.
way, there Is no place where there is less
than fifteen feet of water in the channel.
After the May rise this year | cndeav-
ored to obtain soundings of the bar at the
mouth, and to this end wrote DR.. T.. s.
Wcisiger, quarantine officer at Nelasco,
requesting him to have II done. The fol-
lowing is his letter in reply;
NELNsuu, Ten, June 20 lSSj
Dear Sir-I have delayed answering
your letter until | could get a reliable
person to make Soundings on the bar.
Capt. Bowers and Locke could not lind
any bottom with an eleven-foot pole
Capt. Bowers was out yesterday and
Locke four or five days before.
Yours, etc, T.. s. WEIsIGER.
| wrote again to DR.. w, requesting
him to have one of the gentlemen named
in his letter to 60 out again with lead
line and ascertain the depth of water,
but it was never done. But an eleven
foot pole and a mans arm would sound
fully thirteen feet, and no bottom, and
this Just by the force of the unconined
current during one rise In the river If
the iettieS had been there the depth
would have been greater and permanent
The people OF this country would be
glad to see Houston take an interest in
deep water at the mouth of the Brazos,
and to the writer 1t seems the most con
ycnicnt and available point to Houston,
II the people of Houston would manifest
an interest in it, your able representative
in congress could, and no doubt would,
obtain such appropriations as would in
sure the completion of the work in less
than two years.
The depth obtained by the last May
rise without jetties indicates that with
jetties the depth on the bar would be the
same as in the river, viz; not less than
twenty-five feet, and in the river per
fectly land-Iocked harbor where vessels
would load and discharge on high dry
banks, with no necessity for wharyes.
BRAZoS.