Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-02
mississippi RIVER Commission.

The report of the Mississippi river com
mission covering its operations from
oct. !, 1884, TO the end OF the fiscal year,
June 80, is made public. The works at
various points are briefly described in
general terms in the report proper, and
the detailed reports of the officers in
charge OF the works are submitted as
appendices. The commission cites the
acts Of congress under which il nets, and
quotes from its own previous reports
statements Of It's plans and purposes
which it comments upon. The plans, II
says, contemplate the closing Of outlets
both the low river outlets and the Gre
vases; the contraction of the water way
of the river whore the widths are eN-
cesSivc and the navigation bad, and
the maintenance OF the banks and
in the execution of the plan
thus briefly outlined and in
strict accordance with its original intent,
and for no other object, the money APP
propriated by congress has been eN-
pended. The total cost OF the bank
revetment between Cairo and Nlcksburg
up To June 80, 1885, has been S2,2l0,O00
and OF the works for constructing the
channel, S2,500,000. A very consider
abiC portion OF the sum expended for
bank revetment was designed to give
protection to certain cities, sites and
harbors, Memphis, Vicksburg and OTHERS,
Some of these required special and
prompt treatment II the delta point had
not been held by revetting its banks with
mattresses at considerable expense, the
| city of Vicksburg would long before now
have been practically an inland town,
entirely cut off from the river. At Mem
| al al T.,
| jeopardy by rapidly caving bank, which
threatened to carry off portion of the
city. Bank revetments, as offering the
only possible means of arresting the
danger, were successfully applied in this
case. at has been claimed says the
commission, "that the caving OF banks
should be arrested by works OF channel
contraction at the wide places above
and much uuwarrantCd stress seems to
have been laid on u hypothetical dis
Cusson introduced into the irStTeport Of
the commission, where it is stated the
oretically that the uniform depth Joined
to the uniform width implies the uniform
velocity, and this means that there will
be no violent or cross currents and nc
great or sudden fluctuations in the sill
transport power of the current; but II /,
not here asserted In that report, nor is i
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