The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-01-23
All right. says

ed. Pse lust been dar.' Oats tun'
Jasper says he; but have an idea,
Surprising you get down on all tours
and 1 will ride you in All right'
says 1. So down 1 gets on all tours'
and de general gets straddle, and we
amble up the hill and Frances up 10
the pearly gate. who dar? says ST.
Peter. 1T is l, Gen. William Malone
of Virginny,' says the general. is you
mounted or afoot? I'se mounted,
says de general. All right says st.
Peter and d-n me, if he didn't tell
him to hitch his boss on de outside and
walk in" So Arkansas Pass and Sabine
Pass will hold the bag on the outside.
GALVESTON AND BRAZOs.
l say to you, sir, that have it from
the highest engineering authority
in this country that it cannot be done
in five years, if ever. 1t is 35,OOO
feet or about five miles to the crest OF
the bar at Galveston, while at Brazos
it is less than 1000 feet. You have
an example in your postoffice here OF
how rapidly government work is pros
ecuted. Any firm of builders in your
city would have finished that building
inside of two years. The leaders in
the syndicate building the jetties at
the mouth of the Brazos demonstrated
in the building of the great state cap
itol at Austin, Tex, what can be done
by private enterprise, for they con-
structed that building-the sec
ond largest in the United
states and the seventh in the world
of granite and iron in three and one
half years. And they will give to the
people of Colorado, Kansas and Texas
deep water before the close of the
present year. Galveston is the wealth
lest city in the southwest. If she be-
lieved that the engineers reports were
dead certainty, she would do as we
are doing-but she does not by refus-
ing to put up dollar, except for lobby
expenses at Washington. There is
one lesson the patriotic Yankees have
taught Galveston, which she has thor
oughly learned-in fact, knows it bet
ter than her teachers-and that is to
loudly, early and often, shout for the
old flag and an appropriation.
OPPOSED BY THE ENGINEERS.
When Capt. Eads was making his
fight for permission to build thejetties
at the mouth of the Mississippi every
engineer fought the idea, They
formed combination against the en-
terprise, and had it not been for that
big-hearted, common-sense patriot
Gen. Grant he would not have pulled
through. They fought Eads so hard
that he was obliged to pay 20 per cent
for money with which to prosecute
the work, and his chief engineer, E.
l.. Corthell, one of the greatest engi-
neers in the world and who is now our
chief engineer, was often obliged to
call his men together and ask their in
diligence. And yet the men who
never conducted a great operation to
finish claim that such men as Cor
thell, Sir Charles Hartley, who con-
structed the jetties at the mouth of
the Dandbe, and Sir John GOode,
one of our consulting engineers,
do not know what they are doing, be-
cause they have taken charge of the
Brazos improvements. We will build
city seven miles from the mouth of
the river. We will own and operate
our own railway on each side of the
river. We have our west ietty now
5000 feet, and the eastern work runs
about $500 feet. We will succeed for
in our syndicate are such men as SEN
ater G. B. Farwell, of Chicago; Con-
gresham Abner Taylor and President
Grants of the Atlas bank, of the came
city; L. Otis Wetherbee, of Boston;
w. M. d. Lee, of Leavenworth, Kan. ;
ex-Speaker Ira H. Evans, of Texas, the
only Republican who ever occupied
that position, and others we'll known
in business circles, but never classed
as men who are rainbow chasers, or
constantly pulling at the public teat
for appropriations to improve their
property.
NO SHOW FOR GALVESTON.
Mr.. Cottrell, in a recent report, says ::
81 am decidedly of the opinion that
by the present government methods
there is not any possibility of an ade-
quate depth of wator being obtained
at Galveston, or any other place for
several years to come. do say, how
ever, that if comparison be made
between the conditions existing at the
mouth of the Brazos river and those
at the mouth OF the Mississippi river,
or at the Salina branch of the Danube
river, the comparison will be favorable
to the Brazos, and l further state that
if the work at the Brazos be pushed
with the same energy and skill as dur
ing the past fall, twenty-three feet of
water can be obtained before the close
of the year 1890" Gentlemen, 1 thank
you for your generous attention.