Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-07-13
ARKANSAS HARBOR CONTRACT.
Brewster Cameron Says that Work will Commence today as Material was Ordered by Wiro Yester-
 day-He will Have
Charge.

Charge.
 BALTIMORE, Md, July 1-Negotlations were concluded today between Brown & Sons of tLis city and the Arsnsas Pass | Harbor Company of Aransas Pass Tex, involving half million dollars. The local firm agrees to furnish the Texas | corporation the money necessary to build l a break water and establish permanent | depth of twenty-eight feet of water over the bar at Aransas Pass. This will be accomplished by a system of jetty works.
 ROCKFORD CELEBRATES.
 RoCKPoRT, Tex. July 1-(SpeciaD-A telegram from Attorney T. W. DOdd of Laredo to J. NJ. Hooper and one from Attorney T. H, Franklin of San Antonio to County Clerk Herring to the effect that MeSsiB Brown & Sons had signed the deep water contract and to record the Rockport and Sinton deeds at once. Flags are flying over many buildings and excitement runs high. Deep water is DO loEger a probability but an assured fact.
 INTE RvIEw WITH MIR. CAMERON.
 There was rejoicing in San Antonio and Southwest Texas yesterday acd last night, and as the good news becomes more generally known the rejoicing will continue and increase ID intensity. The cause for 1t all Is the fact that deep water port at Aransas Pass IS DOW sssur- ed bnyoud question. The contract be- tweer Messrs. Alexander Brown & Sons, of Baltimore, and the Arsnsss Pass Her. Dor Company, was signed by Brown and Sons yesterday and work on the harbOr began.
 Early yesterday morning telegrams were sent to Brown & Sons by their at torneys he re announcing that all condi- tions had been complied with and de- tails completed. Shortly before noon telegram was received from Messrs Brown X Sons, announcing that they had sIgDe d the contract, which had al ready bet ,n executed on behalf of the barbor company and only needed the signatur of Brown & Sons 10 make 1t binding.
 The I.ews of the signing of the con- tract spresd rapidly and was greeted with many expressions of satisfaction and of hopefulness for the future ot Southwest Texas. All united in the opinion that the opening of deep water port at Aransas Pass will usher Tn an era of unexampled prosperity in this section, aud w Il be prime factor in the de- velopE,ent of the agricultural aDdinC us- trial re sources eff Southwest Texas.
 Tsle grams were sent from this city to
 partIef. in all parts of the country yes tsrday, notifying them of the signing of the COL tract, and an influx of investors
 and capitalists at Arsnsgs Pass Is ex-
 pected to begin within few days. MT. Brewster Cameron Was seen at the
 Menger last night and asked if the Aransns Pass harbor contract had been signed by the Baltimore parties. "Messrs. Alexander Brown & Sons: wired today that the contract was sign ed by theu," replied MT. Cameron. "lt is necessary nov for the deeds. contracts etc., at this end of the line, which were executed conditioned on Alexander Brown & Sons signing the contract, to be delivered in proper form and as agreed"
 MT. Cameron and his associates have worked hard and increasingly for the past week getting everything in sbape aud attending to the lnnumerable de tails connected with the vast deal, "Mr Franklin, Gov. Wheeler and myself have been at work until after midnight every night during the past week, saId
 Mr. Cameron. Twice we did not get
 through until after 2 o'clock in the morning. The night we came here on a special train from Aransas Pass we did not finish our work until almost3 o'clock | It would have been impossible to have complied with the requirements of the
 investors by the 1st of July, which was l the last date given us, if the Araneas | Pass had not sent the special train for | us, for which We paid their agent al Arans Pass the sum of S225. It came ! high, but we had to have it"
 Speaking of the contract for the hGr- bor works, MT. Cameron said:
 | ''The contract for the har6or works at | Aransas Pass has been let t. Charles Clark & Company of Galveston. As jet ty contractors they are well known, | having done that kind ot work at almost every harbor from Arsnsas Pass to Pen sa:oia. They started to work today in | getting out material, and as soon as they II Cdu RcO lucil picGb Oo "bS NNNN NNN''N | work at the pass will begin"
 | An unexpected requirement of the in- | vestors hhs caused Mir. Cameron. who
 has labored so long and zesiously y Tor | the harbor to give up a cherished plan for & much neeced rest.
 The investors stipulated" said MT. | Cameron last night, "that should give | my personal attention to the work, Tor i the present at least, Tn connection with an experienced business man to be deS- lgnated by them hereafter. This com | pletely upset some well matured plans | of mine to take long rest as scon as ! the final contracts were signed. It oc- | cured to me some months ego that 1t | would be pleasant change to see nolh- | ing Of deep water for few days, after
 having thought and talked about It and | nothing else for tDe past two yeS5s- l | accordingly accepted the offer of some | friends 10 make short busir ess jour- | ney to Europe. This pleasure l an DOW | com pellsd to forego, but my confidence | that twenty-seven feet of water VIII De | secured over the bar at Aransas faSs ls SO great that l am content to fellrqulsh | the journey to aid in bringing about | result of such momentous con'e quenceS as that depth or water at Arau~ sas Pass will be to all the people who inhablt the vast region that lies west Of the Mississippi river. I he'd, however, set my whole heart on this trip abroad and the first thought of givicg IL uJ wss one of keen disappointment, but 1 can now state from experience tbht It IS quite as easy for man to convince him. self that he doss not, Us that he does, r eed the rest and recreation which such journey affords.
 "Now, tbai the entire matter IS over. are you entirely satisfied with the bonus
 tt at was raised," was asked Mir. Cam erOn.
 Il believe it to be the best bonus" he replied, "thst has ever been subsc'lo- ed in aid of any public enterprise III the
 West. It could not have been secured without the united labors of all the en.