The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-27

as follows:
Dennis ...".......,......,........ lac, 900
NaNnaW ..,...,...,,.,..,, SOU,UOU
Catfish Point ....,...,,............ $4,000
Longwood ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $4,000
Leo,a ..'.'',' ,...,...,....,,,,.,,. l2,OOO
Ben Lomold ......".......... 10000
lOlhl"' '''''s'',,,',. '....,',.'.s OiO,UuU
1t is possible that protection levees
may be required at Arcadia and Cho-
tard. This, too, must depend on the
action Of the river during low water.
Besides this new work, estimates have
been made OF quantity of repair and
enlargement work, which ought to be
done, but not all of which is impera-
lively necessary. The most important
and the most pressing of these are:
Enlargement on Rife Frant,.... 1880
Enlargement on Eutaw Front. 10000
Repair Of Eastin Front ........ $500
Enlargement below Eastin Hoop 5000
Topping OF Longwood Levee... 1000
Total..".......,.......,...".... $1,000
Prudence would also dictate the en-
largement OF the Cammack Leyee,
which is hardly sufficiently strong for
an embanknent of its hight. There
are numerous low places to be topped,
banquettes or benches to be put in
across sloughs, crawti,h or sipe holes
to be cut out and weak places to be
strengthened; but these will rather
come within the work intended to be
allotted to the repair force.
In the course of his report Capt.
Startling says: The flood Just past
was remarkable for the lateness at
which it developed, for its great hight
in a large portion of the district, and
for the discrepancies which appear in
the reports from different places, some
times not far apart. These discrepan-
cies are even more remarkable in the
Upper District than in our own; vary
ing there from seventeen inches above
1882 to twenty-three inches below.
In this district the following are the
heights reached by the water at some
Of the principal points:
At Suntlower Landing, ) inches
higher than 1882; at Australia,
inches: at Ooncordis, ! inch; at
Stokes's, . inches lower; at Rosedale,
4 inches lower; at Judge Miles's, be-
low Riverton, about the same as 1882;
at Beulab, about 3 inches higher; on
Vermilion Lake Mrs. Lightfoot's), 7
inches higher; at Bolivar, q inches
higher; at Field Miller'e, s inches
higher; at Mound Landing, about the
same as 1882; at Huntington, ] inch
lower; in Miller's Bend, 6 inches
lower; at Greenville, z inches lower;
at VS. rfeld's, 8 inches lower; on Lake
Lee, nearly foot lower at Longwood,
several inches lower, probably three
or four; at Leots, Skipwith's and May.
ersvile, about two inches higher; and
lower than 1882 by an increasing guam
tity further down.
The experience of the past year has
confirmed me in the opinion previ-
ously expressed that repair force is
not an economical way OF doing work,
but that when properly managed it is
very thorough, and that it is very
valuable auxiliary in time of high wa
ter. ! think it advisable, then, TO
maintain the organization, and to di-
rect it principally to such work as can
not well be done by contract, such as
digging out and refilling crawfsh holes,
putting up plank Tevetments, clearing
the levee OF trees and brush, putting
in benches, etc. To this end, it is my
idea that the force should begin at the
upper end of the district and work
southwark over the entire line, repair
ing every weak or defective place that
can be identified, and removing all
timber and underground.