Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18
DEEP WATER.
Action of Sabine Pass Deep Water
Convention at Beaumont.
Committee of Five appointed to Collect
Statistics and Set Forth Adyan
tages of the Pass.
Private Capital Invoked to Garry on the Work
Where the Government ApprOpria-
ton win Leave 1t.
Special to the Gazette.

water convention was called to order by
Gen. Hamman, but the committee on
resolutions not being ready to report the
convention was about to adjourn until
1880 when Mr.. S. n. West of Tyler
county arose and stated that his friend,
Mr.. j. s. Daugherty of Dallas, was pres
ent on the floor of the hall, and on mo-
ton Mr.. Daugherty was invited TO par
tieipate in the deliberations of the con-
vention. Loud calls were then made tor
Mr. .Daugherty, who responded by stating
that while here not as delegate
he felt the honor conferred on
him by according him the privilege
of the floor He stated that Dallas
stood ready now to extend helping
hand to the citizens of Southeast Texas
in their efforts to secure deep water at
Sabine Pass. He promised that Dallas
would extend the Dallas Trunk to Sa-
bine Pass as soon as money could do so.
He touched lightly on the pending war
of the railroads, but he accused the
railroads of discrimination against
Texas.
A telegram was read from st.
Thomas, Ontario, Can, hoping that
the deep water movement would meet
with success, as it is the best harbor on
the 500 miles of Texas coast.
(Signed) j. B. WoRFoRD.
The convention was called to order ct
2 p. IN.
The committee on resolutions reported
the following:
Gen. w. II. Hannah, Chairman Sabine Pass
Deep Water Convention.
memorials, beg leave to submit the fol-
lowing:
Whereas, while we recognize the claims
of every point on the Northwest coast of
the Gulf of Mexico which is a candidate
for, appropriations from the general gov
sFfiHlent for the purpose of obtaining
deep water port of entry, and depricate
any unseemly rivalry or conten-
ton, yet feeling that the rapidly
developing material resources and
growing commercial necessities of East
Texas and that vast territory lying north
of il have paramount local interest in
the Improvement of Sabine Pass. The
cheapest and naturally most convenient
and desirable seaport on the Gulf, and,
Realizing as we now do from actual in
spection, its present undeniably splendid
physical conditions and advantages, as
evidenced by the phenomenal success
there recently obtained by the govern
ment in the increase of the water depth
on the bar, from about SIX feet to over
eleven feet at mean low tide; and
Confidently believing that it is emil
nentiy practicable to make and maintain
there magnificent land-locked harbor
with an entrance of thirty feet of ample
capacity, easy of access and great Sc
curlty; therefore be it
Resolved, by the delegates of the peo-
pie in convention assembled that COM
mittee of FIVE efficient citizens of Texas
be appointed by this convention whose
special duty it shall be as early as prac-
ticable to collect from all official and re-
liable sources and have printed with
requisite statistics and charts to the
number of - thousand copies, full
and specific information, showing such
advantages of Sabine Pass, its surround
ings, the commerce and resources
naturally tributary thereto, and
such other facts as shall
be deemed necessary to demonstrate the
feasibility and necessity of making it a
deep water port, and to secure substan-
tial and immediate aid from the general
government to complete the work as
early as possible, and that said commit
tee shall circulate such literature and
publish such information throughout the
United States, and especially among the
IA 900 200 people west Of the Mississippi
river, so vitally interested with US in
Sabine Pass as the nearest, quickest and
best outlet to the sea by the Gulf
of Mexico, and that said COM
mittee have power, and it
shall be their duty, to appoint
one auxiliary committeeman in each
county represented in the convention
and such other counties as said commit
tee shall see proper to solicit and receive
funds to defray the expenses of the pre-
pairing, printing and circulating said
statistical information.
Be it resolved, that this convention is
heartily in accord with the sentiment of
the resolutions adopted by the Fort
Worth and Denver conventions.
! Whereas, it has been recommended by
the engineers in charge of the work on
the bar at Sabine Pass that congress ap-
propriate the sum of 81 600 900 for the
further prosecution of the work; and,
Whereas, the present demand
of commerce requires a greater depth of
water than can be secured from the pres
ent contract, and having confidence that
by the use of proper mechanical appli-
ances a sufficient depth of water can be
secured to greatly increase the facilities
of commerce,
Therefore this convention recommends
that such application of such mechanical
appliances be made by private capital by
voluntary subscription by persons inter-
ested IN the commerce there TO be bene-
fitted; the right TO do such work to be first
secured from competent authority.
And we do hereby distinctly de-
clare that il Is the sentiment
of this convention that such
company shall never be reimbursed for
any outlay incurred by it by harbor or
w,2arf charges imposed upon Sabine Pass
Its commerce, but must look to the
government alone for REIN bursement.
BE it resolved, that this convention
appoint an executive committee, consist
ing of one member from each county
represented, of whichfSfhe chairman of
this convention shall be ex-officio chair
man, and whose duty it shall be to call
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