San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-23

SHORE. w 0dU advantage nave you
over Arkansas Pass where natural
channel already exists?
"This; Corpus Christi bay is the
largest bay on the gulf south of Mo-
bile. The direction of the cut is to
the southeast, the quarter from which
the prevailing winds blow nine
months of the year. There Is no tor
tuous channel, no distractions, but q
free ingress to the waters of the gulf
and a tree egress to the waters of the
bay. This is not SO at Arkansas
Pass. Arkansas Bay is shallower,
of less area, and practically
nine miles from the Pass, the opening
from the bay to the pass being mar
row and tortuous. AS result, the
maximum current at Arkansas Pass is
computed at two and half miles an
hour, while at Corpus Pass it will be
seven miles an hour. Reflect mo-
ment; Corpus bay is eighteen miles
across either way, with an average
depth of fourteen feet. The incoming
tide meeting with no obstruction, I'M
der the impetus of the prevailing
wind, rusbes into Corpus Christi bay
with great force, and as the waters of
the Gulf fall under the receding tide
this vast body of water absolutely
unobstructed in its course pours
through this channel 1000 feet wide,
has no bar to its passage and carries
all its silt. if such there be, far be-
yond the mouth of the jetties. There
is certainly no reason that operations
successful either at Arkansas Pass or
at the mouth of the Brazos should
not be equally so, to say the very least,
at Corpus Christi"
Where do you propose to con instruct
your dock and where will your rail-
way connections be made?
"Our road from Corpus Christi will
touch the bay at Flower Bluffs,
twelve miles below town, cross over
to Mustang Island, follow the bay
shore of the island to the channel
now being cut, cross 1t on draw
bridge and skirt the island to
Aransas Pass. Where the ram
road crosses over present work,
docks will be constructed. Our
plan will be to dredge slips to the
depth of thirty feet, into which steama-
ers and vessels of all kinds may come
to receive and discharge cargo at the,
docks which line these slips. Our
railway spur tracks will traverse
all these docks and freights can be
discharged and taken direct from
steamer to cars or from cars to steam
or. There will be seventy of these
slips and every facility for the speedy
transfer of freights.'
Have you any idea how soon this
work will be completed?
eff we have do not deem it wise
to set date. There are unforeseen
con tingencies always arising and de-
lays may be occasioned. This much
is certain. Our plans are matured,
we have abundant capital to carry
them out, they are approved by the
best engineering judgment of the
day, they may be modified according
to circumstances, but work will be
pushed as fast as men and money can
do it, until clear 80 foot channel is
obtained from the open waters of the
Gulf to our docks on the Corpus bay
coast of Mustang Island"
Another st. Louis Trunk Mystery.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July GA box
the chopped pieces ola
part of a woman's body was found in
the baggage room OF the Union depot
last Friday morning. The box has
been in pile of unclaimed baggage
for five months, and was without adj
dress. Part OF the body was wrapped