Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-03
IMPROVING SABINE PASS.
Capitalists rr, ing to Build Up u RI,m to tho
Gulf Cities,

New York Times
The United States Coast Survey sicAm-
cr Gcdney Is lying of East Twenty-siNth
street fitting out for her summers hy-
geographic work ON the shoals of Cane
May. She has Just returned from her
winters work at Sabine Pass, in the
Gulf of Mexico That locality Is one of
peculiar interest to New York capitalists.
Two New York Syndicates have pur-
chased enormous areas, one on the Texas
side of the mouth and the other on the
Louisiana side, in expectation that a
great seaport is destined to spring up
there which will rival in importance
Houston, Galveston and New Orleans.
Assistant Surgeon II B. Fits of the
Gedney yesterday gave some account of
this locality, "For the past twenty
years" said he, "the few who own small
lots in the city Of Sabine and the capital
lists have been waiting for deep en-
trance at the mouth to put lie into their
land. The place has been laid out In
squares and streets with prctcntious
names suggestive OF shipping AT the
wharYes, business IN the centre. parks
and suburbs. But as yet the only ware
houses on the strand are few sbantics
for shipping alligator hldcs-a business
h'hiAN NNNiiNis NV why NfnltlfH Nttu
on broadway are oN-carts and the only
pleasure grounds are those of the village
school. Sabine City is located on yho river
OF that name which separates Louisiana
and Texas, several kmilcs from
the Gulf Its population is variously cs-
tlmatcd at from 200 to 500. There are
four stores, two bar-rooms, Il newspaper,
one hotel and postoiiicc, with tri-
weekly mall which comes by branch
railroad from Beaumont.
Sabine river is stream whose size and
volume would aStonish persons who have
been accustomed to regard Texas bayous
and streams aS something which horse
might leap or ford. II rises in the north
eastern part OF the state and flows through
500 miles of fertile and Nncly-iimbcrcd
land. At Sabine City II ranges from two
! TO three miles in width, curying around
In grand sweep and riNaling the Missis-
/ Sippi in Heterogeneous. Before the war
] $4,000 bales Of cotton were annually
shipped from Sabine. Since then
an impossible bar has formed
! at the mouth for the removal OF which cap
italists succeeded in getting congress to
appropriate money. The survey Is also
making for the jettics and such other Inn
provemcnts as will make tlrst-clnss city.
J Just above the city the river widcns out
I to about seven miles for distance of
/ twenty miles, and the expansion is called
Sabine lake. New York capitalists have
I taken all the land about this for the prr-
/ pose of creating winter resorts, hunting
! boxes, private grounds, etc
{ .'lIcsides alligator-hunting, | should
\ have mentioned anothcrcu industry.
/ Bird plumcs and feathers are shipped from
/ the city, the coast Astounding in birds OF
rare pumagc, The prairie land near by
affords grazing for thousands OF horses
and cattle our coast-surVcy par
| ty, under Lieut.. Crosby, has been
making u typographical and hydro
! graphical survey Of fifty square miles of
/ this region. In May and June we had the
/ thermometer ut 90, with scarcelya breath
Of air, and With mosquitoes In numbers
and intensity of occupation compared
/ with which the Biblical locustS were no
where. Dredging and jetiy building are
constantly progressing and New Workers
will soon have their port ready for com
/ petition with all other Gulf cities"
I The Gcdneys complement of officers
comprise Lieut.. T. II. Crosby, EnsignS
/ r. NJ. Bruniby, \. l.. Hall, j. II, lIcthcr-
| ington, w Kellogg and j. s. Waters,
Assistant-Surgeon II. B. Fits and Re-
corder J. Ross. Although the coast
survey is conducted under The auspices
of the treasury department, all It's officers
are from the navy