Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-09-21


 new arrangement wBs contemplated
 MT. Cameron said:
 "The openlng up of new quaFries or
 the National involved considerable worl
 and the supply during the past montt fell short of our expectations, but sht 1 Mexican road will hereafter furnish
 tTo train loads per day. Double this ] amount ho asver, can be transported by the contractor and arrangements were l practically concluded today with the | San Antonio & Arensas Pass Railway tC furnish Q train load per day, and 6 1 wharf Is now under construction ai l Rockport from which 1t will be deliver | ed onto the barges. 1 had conference this morning with Vice President Monserrate 8ad the Aransss Pass Rail
 way hea made arrangements to render | efficient service in this respect"
 When asked what he thought abou: l the outcome of the Topeka gathering l Mir. Cameron referred the reporter to an interview with himself Shat appeared ID the Kansas City Journal of Sept 7 which IS as follows:
 Mir. Brewster Cameron who was prom inentiy identified with the range cat ile interests in Ar!zons during its halcyoD days, epent yesteI day among old friends at the stock yards.
 &r. Cameron was for years conspic- uous in every movement to upbuild the plains cattle industry, and was a tamil- jar figure in all of the great conventions
 Of catlemen that were held during the sos, but he has devoted the past two years to securing capital for the con- struction of system of harbOr works at Areneas Pass which IS designated to secure a naYIgebie channel Of thirty feet across a narrow sRndbar that obstructs the entrance to Aransas Pass harbor, on the gulf coast of Texas.
 Mir. Cameron stated to 6 Journal re- porter that the importance of the pro- posei harbor Improvements at Aransas Pass 10 the farmers and producers West of the Mississippi River could not easily be overestimated. The committee ap- pointed gt the Denver deep water cons vention held gt Topeka in 1889 that the surplus products ID the territory that is directly tributary to gulf port on the Texas cOast amount to over S5O0,000, 000 annually. It. Is further reported that 3l20,G0O,00 per annum would be saved 10 toe producers West of the Mississippi by shipping through a gulf port, over tho long and expensive rail haul to the Atlantic seabeard. Nothing further than the simple statement of these care fully escertained facts is necessary to show how vital to the great West, the Northwest and the South west as a port on the Texas coast that will admit the largest oceang going ships.
 "When I took Gp this work two yeers ago." said Mir. Cameron, "I first called upon the great transportation companies 1 that control the trans Mississippi traffic and subsequently upon the steamship I lines that handle our export trade. Both of these vital factors in building up | c smmerce assured me that stupen- dous tonnage would go through Aransas Pass whenever depth Of from twenty seven and one half to thirty feet over the bar was secured. They frankly stated to me, however, that ehoal ports of twenty feet or less, could never hope to divert the vast to. nage that now goes through the Atlantic ports, as commerce would uOt submit to the intOlerable de- lay aud tax which lighterags imposes. An6 DnlBscdl COUulJiODS tl ATGDSdS Pass vera found so favorable to deep water that the best mariutlme engineers in the United States did not hesitate to stake their professional regulations on the positive opinion that 1t could be secured there within year, if the work wera prosecuted on a gigantic scale, which Is nov being done. These un- qualified reports in winch the engineers .-t tr,IE h. rhD- improvements similar to these had se- cured deep water and maintained it for more than fifty years. induced the great banking house Of Alex. Brown & Sons, of Baltimore, which now owns a controlling interest iu the enterprise to furnish the money for the Improvements that ere now iD progress at Aransas Pass. h addition to the breakwater
 and ietty works, there are terminal railroads, piers, wharves, warehouses, and ether eXteneive terminal facilities provided for.
 "The public spirited and progressive men who now have control of the Arg0. | sss PGss enterprise do not take any par row view of the rival harbor projects of
 the gulf. They appreciate the obvious 1 fact that the port that gets the deepest ngvigabls channel will inevitably con | troi lhe vast commerce that is tributary | to the gulf coast of Texas. The largest | seaport town now on the gulf is insig- nihcant as compared with that which @ill be built up by the commerce that a nsvigable depth of thirty feet of water will command. All of the gulf ports, therefore, that can secure greater depths | than exist upon the Galveston bar have l nothing to lose in aiding tho DeOUle of Galveston to appropriately celebrate ! the fact that they have 4cured eighteen ! feet of water over the Galveston bar.
 Those who are engaged ID the improve ! ment of Aransas Pass will join with hearty goodwill ID celebrating the re | suits accomplished at Galveston. No | other gulf port Is now able to bear the ! expense that such a celebration would | involve or to provide for the Rccommo- | datiOn and entertainment of tho throng | of people who will come to Texas if the forthcoming deep water convention at ! Topeka advises an inter-American ex- position that is worthy of the name. That Congress will make my appro- | priatlon for this purpose in the present | condition ot the treasury is extremely ! problematical. That Galveston, when she has once taken hold of the project
 in earnest, will abandon it, is not to be | supposed, therefore every consideration ! should move the rival harbors on the Texas coast to give Galveston helping hand.
 The people of the west and northwest
 are interested ID this rivalry between ! the Texas ports to this extent, that the