The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-04-21
They Fail to Find the Full Twenty
four Feet of Depth Re-
quired.
BUT GOODYEAR is NOT A GUTTER.
Hs Will Resume the Work at Once The
Shortage Only Fraction, but Great
II Improvement Shown.

The report of Lieutenant Peck,
commanding the coast and geodetic
survey steamer Bache, who has been
experimenting survey of Col. G. P
Goodyear's work on the Brunswick
bar, was communicated to Colonel
Goodyear yesterday.
The result IS not what was expected
1t does not give Colonel Goodyear, by
small fraction, the twenty-four feet
required to obtain payment on the
appropriation made by the govern
ment, Colonel Goodyear, however,
with his inherent pluck. is not dis
heartened. He Will resume the work
at once
THE TIMES interviewed Mr.. Good.
year in relation to his outer bar work
last night, asking him If he had any
information to give in relation to the
survey and Its results.
His response was: eyes, 1t Is as
we'll that | should state the facts al
they exist, there being, as 1 am ad-
vised by Lieutenant Peck, the officer
detailed to make the survey, no in
Junction of secrecy now that the sec
retary of war has authorized him to
impart information to me.
"The survey discloses great i'm
provement as compared with the sur
vey made by the board in 1895, and as
compared with the survey made by
Mr.. Ripley for me in Ntvember and
December, 1896. AS compared with
the survey of Mr.. Ripley, which
showed 4, 400 feet with less than 25 feet
at mean tide, the total areas of less
than 20 feet have been reduced about
one-half."
"How DOES the survey compare with
the condition of the bar " hen you left
it before the survey commenced?"
at shows that there has been shoal-
ing at two points in the channel, re-
ducing the depths below the "a feet
required for certificate. but between
% and "a feet. On November Z, the
day l called for survey, and contin-
uously thereafter to December 6, when
l suspended all work upon the bar,
careful soundings reduced to the
plane of mean high water from tide
guage observations taken from tide
guages set exactly with the govern
ment plane of mean high water,
showed continuous channel through.
out the entire bar from deep water in
side to deep water on the sea side, of
25 feet at mean high tide. The wave
action was estimated from the box
guages used and on a number of days
the conditions were exceedingly favor-
able for accurate soundings."
"How do you account for the shoal-
ing at two points in the channel?"
81 have been close observer of the
weather during the entire twenty
seven years have resided in Bruins
wick. From September /, 1896, to the
present time there has been exception
ally bad weather on the Atlantic
coast, as Indicated by tie fearful dis
asters to shipping and to our naval
vessels. Storm has succeeded storm
with intervals of only partially decent
weather as lnfrequent as angels visits !;
a0d these storms have been tests of the
channel, which has been self-main-
tanning IN all previous periods, which
it has not fully wlthstood. / am cred
IDLY informed that at Fernandina,
where the government Is spending un-
lirited amounts of money upon outer
bar improvemeDtu., there has been a
shoaling of about>, take at, and as the
depths there have been self sustain
ing in past years, the shoaling is pre-
sumably due to the exceptionally bad
storms of the fall, winter and spring