Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-12-28
ARKANSAS PASS FUTURE
Magnitude of the Deep Water I'm
proVements at That
Place.
Hon. Brewster Cameron in Houston
City.-He Gives the Facts as
they Exist and Predicts an
Air Line From Houston
to Arkansas Pass.
Houston Post, Dec. Is.


manager Of the Aransas Pass Harbor
company, was in the city yesterday and
was seen by a Post reporter at the Law
lor. Mr.. Cameron has charge OF the I'M
mense work of making deep water
hsrbor at Arkansas Pass, and ably rep
resents Messrs Alexander Brown & Sons
of Baltimore who are investing their
millions in this state of private capital
to open up another barbor in Texas to
secure the immense trade Of TIE North
west.
1t was this enterprising firm that wiz
ed their representative, Brewster Came
ron, at the Topeka convention, 20 offer a
quarter of a million dollars if the Deep
Water Exposition of 1898 should 6e
| located at Arkansas Pass, and when the
genuinepess Of the offer was questioned
by rivals, this firm confirmed tie liberal
| offer and gave the same to the .Associst-
ed Press from their home Office in Balti-
| more.
MI SclLCAOA AGOOShANCo atOooSSa o5
the railroad center of Texas and appre-
ciates the fact that on account Of her
peculiar location she is in position to
| assist and encourage the opening up of
deep water ports anywhere on the guilt
we'll knowing that at least for some
years to come all will pay tribute to
Houston and enhance her commercial
greatness, AS Galveston il now doing,
and for these reasons is pleased to pre-
sent some facts about the Arkansas har-
Dor to the great Texas daily The Post.
In reply to an inquiry of The Post re-
porter as to how work was progressing
on the breakwater, Mr.. Cameron said:
"The results already secured are phe-
nomenal, and have never before been at
tanned in the same length of time in any
other herbor works in the United States
or Europe,
"When work began on the breakwster
less than five months ago, the grestest
depth was nine and one-fourth feet.
Now the shoalest depth is thirteen feet
on one narrow mound in the channel
showing that deepening OF almost one
foot per month has resulted from the
work.
"The bar has narrowed from both
ends" said Mr.. Cameron. SIT has been
entirely swept away for distance of 700
feet beyond the outer end of the break
water, and the depth of water at that
point, where it was only twenty feet
when work began, is now twenty five
feet On the inner side of the bar THAT
is, next to the shore) the bar has also
been washed away for a distance of $50
feet making q total narrowing of the
bar of 1450 feet between the twenty-five
foot depths since work began on the
breakwatar. These results are the more
extraordinary" said Mr.. Cameron "when
il is understood that the works are only
about half completed, and do not now
control more than one half of the ebb
currents. When the breakwster has
been finished and the entire volume OF
ebb tide is discharged through the
channel side Of the breakwster, the re-
naming portion of the bar will, like the
1850 feet, be instantly swept away,
"On my return from Galveston this
afternoon the following telegram was
handed to me from Mr.. @. 81. Sawyer,
vice president of the Harbor company:
Arkansas Pass, Texas, Dec. IL.
rewster Cameron, General Manager.
care Lawlor Hotel, Houston, Texas
Will close contract tomorrow with
Clsrk for completion of jetty work.
O. FL. Sawyer, Y. P.
''The contract referred to by Mr.. Saw
yer will complete the breakwater, con-
troll the entire ebb current, and dis
charge its full force unobstructed upon
the bar, and insure a minimum depth of
from twenty-seven to thirty feet of water
at Arkansas Pass.
''Such hgrbor as Arkansas Pass will
have secured within the next few
moths means great prosperity to the
interior cities of Texas, in which Hous-
ton, by reason of her favorable location
can not fail to share. This enterprising
town mas the priceless advantage of
water rate, is advantageously located
with reference to the several points that |
are striving to secure deep water, and |
nothing in the future is more certain |
than that an air line railroad will be |
built from Arkansas Pass into this city. |
The great developments in progress and |
IN immediate contemplation at Arkansas |
Pass demand the quickest possible con-
nection with the great railroad systems |
that center here"