The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-11-28

| to induce the mayor and council to give
assurances upon which he could rsisG
money to go on.
Failing In this, congress granted the
opportunity upon the "No cure, no pay
plan, but requiring him to make q new
channel and paying him $4,000 for two
feet, then $4,000 per foot for added depths
which was entirely inadequate. Work
was continued with dynamite from Au
gust 1892 to January 1893.
From this resulted gain in depths al
all points oyer an area of mile square. In
addition there was some deepening to
ward the channel buoy two and one hall
miles toward the gorge between Jekyl and
St Simon islands
The survey failing to show the requisite
DEPTH congress in February 1893, granted
an extension of time to November 1893. In
May 1893, Mr.. Goodyear recommended
work and succeeded in raising the money
necessary in the midst of financial panic
with three of five banks Just broken in
this city. He was driven from the bar
August II, 1903, by the yellow fever cpl.
demic of that year, before he could secure
the depths required. In 1894, congress
granted $4,000 in partial reimbursement
of OUTLAWS and provided on the mo cure
no pay" plan, for payment of $4,000 for
twenty-three feet, $4,000 for twenty four
feet, and $4,000 for twenty-five feet OF
depth, of width of one hundred feet at
mean high tide. This represented total
gain in depth of 30 for % feet; 33 for "a
feet, and 4,S for % feet OF depth at mean
high tide.
Work was resumed under this act Sep
TENDER A, 1894, and was steadily continued
when weather permitted. The entire area
of the bar steadily deepened except on the
north breaker side. This point has stead
lily built from material carried off the bar
by the currents,
Steady deepening has continued during
the entire progress of this work from the
deep water pocket of twenty-six feet at
mean high tide upon the sea side to like
pocket upon the inside, 1t has been Mr..
Goodyear's steady aim to gradually bring
the deep water pocket upon the sea side
and the deep water upon the inside nearer
the crest of the bar. The object in this is
to create channel between the two of
but few hundred feet in length, shaped
like double funnel. This he believed
would be kept open by the concentration
ebb and flood currents through it.
During the thirteen months from Au
gust 1893 to Septem Der 1894, in which work
was suspended upon the bar, there was no
of the channel. An examination
of thu list of deep sdraught vessels from
1890, the year after the wreck OF the AL
pharetta Campbell and the resultant shoal-
ings of the bar show steady progressive
1t has made the detention
of vessels for favoring tides thing of the
past, Work was continued through the
summer of 1895, and three surveys were
made by the government, resulting in no
payment to Mr.. Goodyear
Congress in 1895 amended its legislation.
In August 1895, Mr.. Goodyear renewed
work, and in the winter of this year a sur.
Tey was made, resulting in no payment to
Mr.. Goodyear. In August of this year
Ir. Goodyear renewed work, AS result
he present survey was ordered here in
harge of H. L. MarindIn OF the coaet and
eodetic survey who surveyed Mr.. Eads
FORK at the mouth of the Mississippi. Lo-
al experts believe this survey will show all
he depths and widths called for under Mr..
oodyCar's contract That there has been
very remarkable increase in depth yearly
nee this work was undertaken by Mr..
in 1891, is undeniable, and is at
sted by the frequent sailing Of deep
aft vessels which could not have crossed
e bar even before the shoalink described.
ad the conditions existing when this