Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-05-11

aboat $229.62 and about 985
miles by the United States.
The expenses attending the pro.
lection and preservation OF Ievees,
and the closing OF crevssses during
high water by the several lsvee
districts and the United States
have amOnRted to . large sum; but
v- ARE unable to state the amount,
and they. Of course, form no part of
the perm snent betterment Of the
lever system.
TENsAS BASIN LEvEE DISTRICT.
This district, comprising the
parishes of Mor~honse, West Car.
rO,t, R,chland, Franklin and Cata.
houls, with that part of Oaachita
and Caldwell east Of the Ouxchita
iiv~r. was organized in 1885. 1t II
subject to overflow escaping from
the Mississippi and the Arkansas
rivers in the State Of Arkansss, tn
greater extent than from any other
source. The work Ot the dis rict
has been always mostly confined to
levee construction and improvement
in Drsha and Chico: couHties, Ark.
The United States "Upper Tensss
District" covers the Same terrltOry
from tho Arkansas river to the
Louisiana line, and by far the iarg-
est part of the levee work done In
this district during the past two
years, and, 10 fac.. since 1881, bss
h-en nv the United States. The
approximate length of new levee.
built since April, 1892. is 1855
miles, aud OF Ievee raised AMI tn.
isrged %. 20 miles, involving about
1896, ,9l9 cubic yards OF earthwork,
at y cost Of about 1892. Ot
this work the Tensaa Basin Levee
Distfict has built 6.3O miles Of new
ievre, and las raised and enlarged
j.64 miles of old levee, amounting
to 63i ,O36 cnbic yards If earth work.
at a cost OF 497. .6O5.69.
Two years ago, previous to the
elimination of the flood of 1892, II
was estimated that the line OF
Ievees extending from Amos BayOu
to the Louisiana line. about e ghty.
five miles. had over 40 per cent OF
its length of weak aud small sec-
uons, with grade less than q loot
above the height of previous foods,
and that when the stage of the
river became higher than In 1890
there couI: be little expectation
that the lins would be held intact.
The food OF 1892 was higher along
the entire IiDe of levees than ~
1890 by fully Que foot in some
places. and while It prevailed six
crrvas.es occurred. viz: A, BrONks'
Mil. May g; at Panther Fmest.
Nav l3; At lower LELAND, May 25 ;
at railroad lrvee (below Arksnsas
City) June 2; at Upper Leland,
June 90, and at Lskcport. June e6.
The discharge from these crevassrs.
~ith u still larger volume vt water.
mostly from the Arkansas river,
which passed across Anus Bayou
ridge above the head of the levee
svs,rm. ov-iflo~rd large areas In
the Fifth louisiana aud Trnsas
Basin Levee ulStrlCte.
During the year between The
6w,ls Of 1892 and 1898 very little
work was done by the Tensxs Basiu
L-v~e District. bat the work Of the
Federal government continued, snd
new ievees we're Quilt, closing Of
covering all gaps aud consider ably y
reducing the lruyth 0f line with
weak aud low session. But ths
food of 1893 reached nearly tb,
name height along this front u,
that al 1892 80 in sOme places n~srl,
a halt foot M.her--and four ere.
vassea 0ccurIrti, viz: At Adams
(l~iow Lakeport). May ~; n
k'grr's. May IA; ut Mathews Ben,
(ah0ve Grand LAX }. May 10, ant
At Sain's Field ON CsptSss Greek
Mar 70. Tue Ovr,fl1w from thrs,