Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-26
ARKANSAS PASS.

tail ends of his law business in this territory General Heney abandoneu 8 arge and lucrative law practice last July in order 10 locate permanently ID San Francisco. Shortly thereafter ne vent to Aransse Pass upon the teie' graphic request of Hon Brewster Gamer on with the intention of merely look'ng over the ground and making Q few in vestments.
 "I found tho outlook there so bright, said General Heney, "that 1 invested more than fifty thousand dollars for my self and few immediate friends. and l expect to return there before the lst day of Novemb Der. I shall make flying
 trip to San Francisco in the meantime
 te, ,alsraa: capital ia magnificent pro-
 iect I have on hand at Aransas Pass.
 have 10 doubt that myself and friends
 will req! ze at feast one million doiiefs from the investments I have already
 made. | received bona fde offer from Chicago people ol Sl00O00 in cash for one piece of property which only cost ms about s15,000. I refused the otfer' as I am satisfied I can get much more than that for # within the next ninety days"
 "I attended the Daep Water conven- ton al Topeka, Kansas, as delegate from California; said General Heney, .'and 1t was the Eins st body of ren, from an intellectual stand point, that l have ever seen sssem blcd. It wss presided over by Senator Vest of Missouri. The convention unanimously and enthu- siasticsliy endorsed the building of the Nicaragua canal by the people of the United States, and insisted ID a stirring resolution that it should forever "FlcHt the American Flag" The question of deea water harbors on the gulf coast of
 Mexico was inteligez tly di.cussed from every stand point. Facts and figures were given showing that the average distance from the western and north
 western states to haTbOr on the Gun coast of Texag is about ore hall me distance that it is from the same places to the city of New York. It was also shown that ali the surplus products of the United States which are exported to Europe, or nearly the whole therecf, come from the statee and territories west ot the Mississippi river. The products Of the states east of the MlssissppI river are mora than consumed by the people of the UnItea States alone An prevails that the greater part of the grain products of the United States are shipped via the Great Lakes, but this is not a fact, four fifthe of the entire products goes via New York, Bal timore and Newport NeWe, the latter place is on the Chesapeake Bay short distance below Baltimore and has re- cantly eprung into prominence as ehip- pinE center. The three great ports just mentioned nre more than t.elve hun dred miles from Topeka, Kensae, while Galveston and Aransas Pass are about six hundred miles from the same place The haul to the gulf coas. IS down grade, without any bad mountain ranges to cross, winch are two great factors in railroad transportation. It is well known fact that the cost of carrying by water, in deep water vessels, Is oniy from one tWentv-eixth to one Cne-thir- tieth Of the cost of hauling by rail. Hence the grain of the northwest will eventually aud inevitably tnd its way to the nearest really deep water port on the gulf coast iu seeking transpc, tation 10 Europe. h some parts oi Texas corn and cotton are grown side by side. The corn is shipped to New York and other eastern ports while the cotton IS shipped by Galveston and New Orleans. At first this seemed unacconntable to me. but upon investigation l found that ID reaching New Orleans a sailiDg vessel must be lowed nearly 100 miles up the Mississippi river against strong current nt great expense, and ID addition to that draw back New Orleans is cuCsed with n damp climate which makes 1t impossible to store grain there for even F. shor! time without great danger ct seriuus damage. At the port of Calves i'm there is only about sixteen feet of
 water over the bIr, and consequently large deep sea going vessels must be loaded from lighters, thus causing E double handling of the freight, besides h
 heavy charge of one dollar per ton fer
 Iiohters. It is easy to see therefore.
 why the grain product of the northwest
 is not shipped by either of these ports
 It is much easier to handle cotton
 which is shipped in bales, and conse-
 quently the vast difference between the
 cost of transportation by rail and by
 water causes the latter product to be
 be shipped by New Orleans and Calves ton in spite of the disadvantages just mentioned. At the harbor Of Aransas Pass there wli be none Of these diff culties with which to contend. It has an exceedingly dry climate, and the largest sailing vessels will be able to enter the port without the assistance oi either a tug or pilot"
 ''F;om Topeka" sad General Heney fl intended going direct to San Fran
 cisco, but couple qt ny friends wired 1 me from that city to meet them at oar Antonio and return to Arans8s Pass tt show them over the ground. l did so
 and they were 10 delighted with the out look that they immediately invested considerable sum of moneY and express ed their intention of returning to Aran sas Pass AS soon as they could arrange