The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-27
The report then r.ate ty Colon
was a. follows:
PROPOSED CHANNEL.

TIE whole distance from the outer bat
or Bay O. Galveston % he wharges At
Houston & g 41-ipa miles.
The wd;h G. c-aaaei proposed and es-
MINATED TO ta.s report from the point Of
commencement 81 uor,h SIZE y Bolivar
peninsular to the Sau iallu'p river a.:
MorEzus P0.at is l5@ feet wide. having
slop-s o.: $50 feet horizontal to each foot.
deep. vertical
From san jac'nto river 70 Harrisburg.
the natural ohzu1l is q greater width.
varying from 21J to 500 feet vide.
DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTER or
THE WORK.
From the Cult ot Mexico 70 the north
ern end 0. Bolivar Peniusuiar. six nautical
miles. there is ample depth 81 water tgi
all ships whose draft Of water. say from
eleven 20 twelve feet. enables them 20
cross the outer bar N ordinary weathe.
with safety.
Thence 10 Red Fish bar s0-loo nau-
teal miles the greatest depth is ten and
half feet aud the least depth ls seven
and half feet-the whole distance haY-
Ing an average depth OF eight and half
feet. al ordinary moan tides The material
OF deposit in this distance is COMPOSED Of
an adninture Of alluylal earth. sand and
fhells, representing no ANTIQUITIES 10 be
overcome In It's removal
Red Fish bar is 055 miles wile--a 1T
tie more than half nautical mile, and for
a depth OF thirteen feet 10 which / have
made borings is composed Of an accumula-
ton OF shells, with very small portion Of
saha ana aiiuv'al deposit. The greatest
cepth OF water ia seven feet. and the small
est depth is four and a half feet. having
an average depth OF five and half feet
From Red fish bar 10 Choppers bar,
tho greatest depth is eleven feet ana thu
shaliowest depth Is seven aud a half fcor.
having for the whole distance Of I 49, 100
nautical miles an average depth OF mine
and a half feet at mean tides. Tho ma T.
nriai on deposit here is the same as In
sasai comprising the distance from Bolivar
peninsular to Red Fish bar
AcoSs Choppers bar proper the dis
nnce Is h7-l0O nautical miles the great
est depth Is six and half feet and tho
shaiiowest depth ia Ave feet, the averag,
depth being Ave and seyen-ciahtbs feet
The horings across this bar (made IN I
depth OF thirteen feeO exhibit an adnix
ture OF earth, sand and she'll and does no,
present any difficulty.
nave not found any running sand $50.
caliedl. the material is compost Of IN.
deposit carried down the Buffalo and otho,
payous, inc san Jacinto and Trinity riv,
ers during freshets. until II meets the m
posite force and greater density NJ IN,
udal waters from the Gulf of Ne~inn
where 1t becomes deposited
II these channels were excayated nm,
inc water removed from them, the poros
lily OF this material and the pressure n
water within and behind it, which woul,
then seek an outlet by filtration. wonl
cause slides In its banks: but so long a
me pressure OF water In the excavate
channel Is equal to that behind Il an
which VIII exist, slides viii not occu,
rms is demonstrated to you immediatel
AFTER the cessation Of every freshet in you
banks and low ground bordering on the,
become saturated and Overlooking wit
water no slides take place
put as soon as subsidence Of the freshe