Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-19
slFrom Sundays Daily.l BRUMP'S BAYOU.
A Graphic Reporter Visits the Bayou and
 Gives the Result of His Investigations.

Yesterday afternoon in company with Messrs. Frank G. Bridges and w. A. Lee, Of the Pine Bluff Water and Light company, and a representative of the Commercial, the GRAPHIC re- porter went on q tour to inspect Brump's bayou and the country which is drained by it. The party started from the dike below the water works, at " hieh point water is being pumped from the Arkansas river to supply the city, both for fire and domestic uses.
 Brumps bayou drains into the river about one hundred yards above the place where the pipes run into the river and through which the water is pumped. At the present time the bed of the bayou is dry, eX- eept for distance of perhaps two hundred yards, which is filled with backwater from the river. The channel of the bayou skirts along he banks of the river, while on the north side is a sand bar which ex thcnd to the river, distance of, per haps, from quarter to a half mile. When the river is high this bar is covered and the current sweeps around the bend above the city against the banks on which the water works are situated The party walked up the river under this the officials could and should abate. Numbers of dead animals and fowls, which had been thrown from the bank above, were seen lying about in a decomposed state, while just above the proper mouth of the bayou is the city's dumping ground for the waste and filth that is collected from the streets. Not only is the filth hauled to this bank and thrown over, but most of the dead animals found in the city are hauled to this place and dumped over, not to be carried away | by the waters of the river, but to ! lie there, lester and rot and allow the | gentle zephyrs to wait the putrid stench up the bank and over our faiI city to create sickness and, perhaps, death Pure air is as necessary to the health of a people as pure water. Did the waters of the river reach this point, it would be bad enough tc have such things dumped into then l above town to float down and lodge along the banks fronting the city an6 scenting the air with all manner O foul stenches; but they do not, only in extreme high water, and the citA officials deserve censure for allowing such things to be dumped under tht river bank above the city.
 Further up the bayou, and alonl it's bank, are numbers of priyies whicl could be removed to other locations if the Board Of Health so ordered The bayou runs within seventy-fiv, yar6s of the Catholic cemetery, bur no drain appeared to come into il otherwise than by percolation.
 The party continued their journey on up the bed of the bayou until til, bridge on Barraque street was reached, and with the exception of { privy here and there along the banks and few dead careasses, i'll d nor, or less decomposed state, scattered about, no disagreeable sights wer, seen until the head Of Third avenu, was reached, when the party cam, upon some pools of very black ant l dirty looking water standing il the bed of the bayou This wate 1 was traced to it's source and wa, found to come from thestave factory 1 From that point the party crosse, over to the slaughter pens. Tn