Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-10
DEEP WATER.
What the Tsxas Newspapers Say I.
the Great and Pressing Need
of the State.
II js Not "GsIvesfsD or Nethiuso WIZ
'he People, but Deep Water
Port for T,xas.
Texas Should Meet In q Texas City Co Make
an Effort for the HarmonlzAr alton
OF revas Differences.


tenth part If The pluck thst DsllIs ana
Fort Worth have, she would have deey
| wster within one yesr. The fact OF The
business ia, Galveston is rich and restiur,
being pent up in U.ics ths. seems tc
care for nothing outside the confine line
Dallas and Fort Worth may turn Red
river into the Trinity, but Galveston vii!
lever secure deep water.
Westherford Sur: Now thas the cues
ton is definitely settled tina. the deep
water convention will be held ct Fort
Worth on July 10 next, os announced In
the call Issued by Leading business meu,
sud published in last weeks issue Of the
Sun, a meeting of the citizens CT Weath-
erford and Parker county should st once
be called 20 consider the Importance of
the deep wster question in all It's bear
ings TO interest Of Texas, and to appoint
delegates 10 the ensuing Fcrt Worth dee o
WEter convention.
/ Paris Farmer: Every farmer is. inter
estad in the result C the deep wster con-
vention, to be held at Fort Worth CT July
10. a deep water port On the gull means
caesp transportation, and that 10 what all
classes need.
Gssnbury Nawg: d July 1o E deep
water convention Is TO be held st Fol t
Worth, and every county in Texss should
be represented. The people OF this coun-
try want deep water st the most avsilable
place, and that place eeems TO be Aransas
Pass.
Corsicana Observer, Deep water for
I, xas is the all-sbsorbiug theme of the
progressive men OF the stste-pot only
this, but of the Leading business
men Of the west. Since Texas
cad Colorado are bound TO
gether by steel rails, s closer commercial
relation exists between the two sections.
A highway for food tide Of commerce
has been opened by the push Of tie 1all.
ways into the southwest and the north
west. Vast agricultural resources exist
n the broad expanse Of new territory
thus bound together By these new arteries
of commerce. With deep water on the
Texas coast, wonderful developments will
follow. How shall we get deep wstel7
Millions Of dollars have been squanteied
In the eh9rt to create deep wafer at
various points along the GUT coast,
out SO far put precious little
visible good mas resulted from these
large expenditures. The Observer has
very little faith in the securing system,
which has teen tIIad by istties, walls or
other dredging. II we were to speak the
fat, we would sey: Build piers 20 deep
water. 1t will cost legs IN the long run,
and what is more, II will be cure and
safe method Of procedure. The Calf
coast is made up largely OF sand, so far
SIS soil is concerned, 70 dredge out Z
channel, the sand will soon fill 1t unless
strong current can be kept flowing con-
stsntly in one direction. Captain
Eds succeeded at New Orleans
with the Jetty system be
cause he had the volume of
water of the Mississippi River for
motor, but Corpus Christi or Arkansas
Pass have not such volume. No Texas
harbor can ever have such an auxiliary as
the great Mississippi to help cut away
and scour ship channel through q sand
bar such as the one at Galveston. Near
Arkansas Pass, at Rockport, it is By actual
one mile to deep water from
the shore. A pier could be built to deep
water at that point for less money than a
channel could ever be dredged or con-
structed. When these piers are once built
it will be permanent. The sand drift
from the Gulf would pile up sgsinst the
sides Of the pier, until In time an island |
would be formed and the land gradually
extended to deep water. If the pre- jet
was left for US to engineer, our plsn
would be to build TO deep water, rather !
than to try to bring deep water to the
land. We once before made the predic-
zion and now We repeat it: Texas will
build to deep watei after all her expert
merits and expenditures. Rockport seems
to be the most feasible point at which
success naY be attained.
Hamilton Herald: A convention to |
secure deep water on the Texas coast is
being talked Of, TO be held at Denver. 1t
Is to ba an Interstate convention. The |
Fort Worth GAZETTE demands the recon-
Citation of differences between the va
rious sections Ct the state before carry |
Ing those provisions abroad to be AZ |
asted. The Herald believes that
no outside Influence or capital would
be needed II this harmony st home
could be brought about. Deep water
ct Arkansas Pass should and sJuld BE- Sc
cured by western and northwestern busi- |
n SIS men interested in the enterprise, II
they would tske hold with esrnest8eRe,
and Western Texas would resp rich re- |
ward FROM the Success Of such move
ment. Government aid, either state or |
will never do the work.
ConsEche Chief: The jealousy exist |
ing between Dallas and Fort Worth as
rival cities sometimes leads them both |
int indiscretions. The call Of the cit;zans |
OF Fort Worth upoa three states and ter
ritcries for 9 deep water convention, 10 |
be held in that city July 10, is sll right |
and proper, excepting that SIS Fort Worth
has been well patroD.zsd OF late by public /
1t would have been in little /
better taste to have circulated the
csll mora generally among the oustTJ
ness men Of the state for their slgS
na.ures before precipita.ing .tupon the
public. The efforts Of Dsllas to hskfY
q similar c invention called u.side ,.ah@
state Is hardly tena5le upon the gsfEf
that such convention ought to ~ ~
moved from locsl influences, for 6sN in
auerces will exist anywhere. both |
cases there is visible 10 the public dig
position on the part of the two cities TO
take the wind out OF each others sails.
deep water bar and q harbor area sui-
dcient to give hundred Euro
resn merchant ships ample ees
room are OF too vital interest to the great
southwest and to Texas In particular to
StEDf local jsalous!es. The CONVEX
Hon oIght to be held in Texas, and as
matters have gone thus far, Fort Worth is !