The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-07-03
! HYDRAULIC DREDGE.
;, Machine Which Eats Up
Sand Bars.
hon or DEEP WATER SOLVED
channel Forty Feet Wide and
recently rset Deep With tho
Greatest Ease.

from the Beaumont Weekly JouC-
worthy of Insertion In The Post.
haIs he true, the work Of deepening
bayou can readily he accomplished
,r,ure the assurance that the Busl-
acuc will enter into correspondence
Rates at once. Buffalo bayou is
MS hope. Every difficulty in the
its deepening can be ove.come by
effort. Yours truly.
Norman G.. Kittrell.
Tator of The Post:
on Texas. June 2o-At the request
ke k,,tvll send you the enclosed
We have today mailed letter to
%. requesting particulars. ETC.. and
IN YOU posted upon development.
Iuly.
w, w. Dexter. Secretary.
tire Journal publishes the descrip-
the most powerful and greatest
,lredge that has ever been con
Ii will prove interesting ITO read
HE Journal, because IT is proposed
FAhis machine to drcdge inc channel
Art Arthur to deep water in sabine
revolution of inestima Bile
10 mankind has Just heen effected
NIL w. Bates of Chicago. What he
g may be described in few worus,
y word is pregnant vi important
10 commerce, transportation. til :
Eof civilization and the conquest OF
h by restless man.
Us solved the problem of deepen
llow rivers 50 that innumerable
now used by commerce may be-
highways of cheap transportation.
solved the problem of canal cut
cost low enough to insure the
fetal success of the Nicaragua
and ult matoly of many similar
or uniting sea with sea. He has
the ncrmanence of navigabe
IN the Mississippi river from St
70 the Gulf of Mexico without the
ture OF millions of money. He
pared the way for the opening of
route OF incalculable value from
10 the sea through the drainage
W
bis has been done by the process
b.nations. adaptation and develop
peculiar 10 the present generation
kers and builders, in the city of
.. IL Is an outgrowth Of the marvel
hievements which made the drain
pal Itself an engineering revolution.
ich fixed upon that enterprise the
pm OF the expert and financial
Bates. as hydraulic engineer. Sc
contract upon the drainage canal.
+ paid - cents per cubic yard for
ng earth. a price at which 1t was
he would meet bankruptcy. The
cost 20 him. however. was less
kne-half the contract figure. This
he was abb, to reach by means of
lraulic dredcer Ne used machines
fweie vastly larger ard more power
N any other srnilar machines the
mad ever seen. These machines
Po' quick invention, not a discov
Fit development and combination
necessary by keen competition and
ipoSFihio by The sharpened wits of
psf alert aud resourcefnl Young men
present day. Engineers of all coun-
fere amazed at the case and small
(th which earth was thrown from
|ahHi ny the hydraulic marvels.
however was only the Hrs; step.
no. long before Mr.. Bates VAS
Pr by the Mississippi river commits
government board. which had been
FlhS tor years with one of tho
e. modern problems. that of keep
l'ePih m the father of waters -,iii-
Z, permit even Sht draft steamers
rpel".en 81; Louis and New Or
Wen'N millions of dollars have
fent for this purpose, and in recen;
soiiifnunicaficr the secretary of
F'in the only result WAS eighteen
more Of winter for a distance OF
pres, lis discourage ng result was
" iaui! OF rhe commission. wni q n
me as best 1t could with the means
olhinand ana overcame many great
II. III vas to the credit OF The
son mat II alertly. and in dis,
lore or er', ,ss .'a i,al,, wi'h which It
Puns man who had achieved so
Ioh lhe drainage canal and asked
~ ~ a hydraulic drodeer for use
rMhg IN" Mississippi. In fact, me
|ns OF The board biM!ded wiser Than
Nv Ihey were after AN improve.
{pa, they nave found revolution.
2ppaIes built a machine unNar con-
He was To have sl72.Ooj for II il
h H. De found capable of removing
kble y; yaras Of earth per hour. If II
~ 10 Remove 2iNl cubic yards he
nave bonus. or premium, of Il
fW. OF the contract price, rhe
Isis have just been finished
aehphis, and his great dredrsr
Sr ~. - ability 10 DO things
H. well-nigh inci edible. hut they
ana must be believed. An
y, me tess IL. ordinary river
| Of o'g 10 the requirements, gave
5rhn nttie over 5000 yards por
Mr. MAXIMUM nInnm vas rs high as 77aS
~ ,se ii,ates. therefore, gets his
n' s",oo which he has hceu in
no"eVer, he woe PAID ar
Ia =" me capacity of his mlch.ne.
J m of IF ,N @,n G,ha receive the enormous
n Eher words, thds machine viii 40
~ Shndhar al speed of from
h ro en ieet minute. cutting It's
i, Ign solid bank and leaving
Zoo, onannei forty feet wide and
us, in, a.p. To grasp the idea
II i is himself In a Chicago
nv ,trty feet from curb TO
'iooklns up a story and n half
Of ,hs ono gets the width ani
81, "Iu swath th.s monster cuts
out Of the solid earth. or
q conld not do its work al such
Waiar rate as this II ii we're not
5 f ho w'fch 1t has to work with.
'' s'eret Of the whole perform.
' iirn ol me machine are six intake
Of ' thssa, downward. Surrounding
! h. which is kept in revolution In " Iii
I'm ~ mat the knives cui and
The NE sand and NIX it with the
bred. s process. 1t should bc ie-
|nIpes S,es on all around tn. in
Of anu in these pipes thu
inns W. great steam-driven centrliu-
mass ~ ~ pulling away nj the loos-
|gine ~ SAND and wafer. IT is Easy
brIs d ,he result. Great solid streams
tn" g =, IN the pipes al rapid
ID tbo hydraulic engineers have cal
10 tho speed TO nicely. They
rirr ,n" fraction of FOOT what speed
In ara must have through those
ever 20 carry the sand In So
n she he way n which the hydraulic
= lis WIS up to a sandbar, attacks