Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-27
Deep Water Diet.
San Antonio Light.


The interest which centers around deep
water on the gulf coast of Texas is not
diminished. In his speech welcoming
the o. R. G. delegates st Corpus Christi
on Monday last, Col. Ropes very plainly
set forth the work in which he is en-
gagged, as director of the large capital be-
hind him. That work is the opening of
the original Corpus Pass, and Col. Ropes
says that the first cut through from Cor
pus bay TO the open gulf along the line of
that old Pass will be made in sixty days.
That cut will be V-shaped, ten teet deep
ard forty feet across. Once this cut is
made, the rushing tides will rapidly cut
away the channel which will be reyetted
with stone on its southern face TO prevent
washing, leaving the northern or upper
side to the action of the currents.
While this work is being rapidly
pushed, and while the Arkansas Pass
improvement company is getting ready
Its material to commence operations I'M
der the authority of congress, what is
being done at the other end of the line?
The Galveston end, which is being
shored up by that Sc 200. 900 appropria-
ton. that is if they ever get it.
A recent issue of the Houston Tribune
CONTAINS this animated notice.
IA Washington special to the Jack
sonville (Fla. } Times-Union says that
the bill appropriatIng ST $50 ZOO to ss-
cure deep water at Galveston is as dead
as red herring so far as being passed
at this session of congress. The news
paper that formulates Norman maxims
aud its esteemed contemporary that
copies them will now dissolve the mutu-
al admiration society they recently
formed ana again dig up the ensanguinsd
emblem of war. -
Is it not q fair inference from this that
the Houston Post, which 10 supposed to
speak for Houston's business men, has
agreed to bury the efforts of the sgndi-
cate, now so successfully securing deep
water at the mouth of the Brazos, in
order to assist Galveston to secure that
sugar-coated appropriation of Sc, 200 200
to experiment with at the expense of the
national treasury? And if so, Is the
Houston Post party TO this scheme TO
draw untold millions from the people?
Or, Is II only afraid to call things by
their right names, lest it give aid and
encouragement to the BraZos work by
publishing what is being done there by
private capital, at comparatively small
expense, to successfully solve this
deep water problem? Or, are Hous-
tonians afraid of the future COM
mercial rival so certain TO oFershsdow
them OH the banks of the Brazos2 This
is very pessImlstio view of the case, to
say the least. All Texas will share In
the success that attends the securing of
deep water, no matter where attained;
and in that benefit the great Northwest
will also share, as well as this great
Southwest. The new port at the mouth
of the Brazos will only be sixty-flve
miles from Houston and will greatly aid
her commerce for a season, if not for all
time.
San Antonio has none of that jealousy
over what may grow ut Arkansas Pass.
Her cry has been first, last, and all the
time for deep water; deep water where
it can be soonest obtained and for least
money; and as she said at Denver and
Topeka and at Washington, so she says
now