Kansas City journal., 1898-02-11
Doggett D. G. Co.
The successful completion of the deep
water harbor enterprise at Port Arthur
means more for this Western country than
most people realize The general impress

water harbor enterprise at Port Arthur
means more for this Western country than
most people realize. The general impress
sion among the poorly informed is that
Port Arthur Is merely real estate propo-
sition. etc What does Mr.. Brady mean
by the deep water enterprises at Port Ar
thur being completed? He. saw no
ships within ten miles of Port Arthur-he
ly completed. A ditch something over two
miles long and fourteen feet deep has been
cut up the banks of the settling basin: the
ditch beginning at least four miles from
deep water and ending in the marsh prai-
rie below Taylor's bayou, three miles south
of Port Arthur We guess Mr.; Brady must
speaking fictitiously of the deep water
port
sight to see those big ships loaded with
the produce Of Western factories and farm
ers. bound across the ocean. We are all
swearing by Port Arthur after this. We
are sorry that Mr.. Andreesen is taking to
| swearing. We are sure he will readily
swear that he did not see ship within
conveying the impression his interviewer
has put in print.
"On the same line speaks Mr.. Stephenson,
capitalist. Mr.. Stephenson says: The har-
| Dor will be one of the finest in the world
| and ships can come closer to the shore
OF course MIR. Stephenson knows that there
| is no harbor at Port Arthur. and he ought
| to know that no harbor is ever likely to be
| built there. Nobody proposes. not even the
| ever talked of harbor at Port Arthur.
| What they are talking of is a canal from
| Sabine Pass harbor to Port Arthur-so far,
all talk.
MIR. Vierling is quoted as fully indorsng
the railroad proposition. 1t must have oc-
| Cured to him, and 1t has to others, that
the railroad proposition lacks but one
thing-the absolutely necessary thing to its
success.viz; its extension to deep water.
| Mr.. Dodder, merchant and Mr.. Raber,
printer, indorse the proposition Of the
railroad
Mr.. Tierney. Of the Omaha Brewing Com
pany. must have had a large portion of
his brewery products with him when he
made the statement that Sabine Pass is
too swampy and anybody who studies the
the vast superiority of Port Arthur over
Its rival. If Mr.. Tierney will come down
without his brewery and its brew and bring
with him good engineer, we will pay the
expenses Of the trip and make the engineer
a present of a fine suit of clothes into the
bargain. IL the latter does not see, after
Sabine Pass is higher in altitude. is less
swampy and is In every respect better 10:
Gated for the building of a commercial and
healthful city than Port Arthur.
DIR. Lord. Union Pacific surgeon, saw nc
ships laden with Western products at Port
Arthur nor within ten miles of Por,
Arthur. OF course; what the doctor meant
to say. and probably did say. was. that
he was pleased to see ships laden with
Western products ready to be transported
to foreign markets loaded at Sabine Pass
harbor'-the best on the Gulf of Mexico.
| Passing over the names of the gentle
men who have spoken SO kindly of the
railroad and entertainment note that DIR
Montgomery was pleased with the sight
of a big ship Of 1900 tons loading for for.
eign ports with products OF our own par,
of the country. etc. Where did the doc.
tor see this great ship? He saw 1t at the
foot of Broadway in the town of Sabine
Pass and then II was being loaded from
shallow fiatboats that had traversed the
shallow lake from Port Arthur ten miles
above. Why this pretense on the part OF
DR.. Montgomery, or any other doctor mar
or woman. that the town of Port Arthur
has ships loading at her docks or within
ders? Or why should Mr. DeBord the at.
torney, say that he saw ships waiting al
Port Arthur to carry our products to for.
eign lands?' We guess Mr.. DeBord never
said it. II he did. he was simply talking
through his hat.
MFR Scott, the merchant. I am glad Il
know. learned a great many things or
this trip He certainly learned that Por
Arthur is no seaport excepting in nam,
that II IS.
The facts are that neither the Oma ha no.
| Kansas City business men care mucl
| about Port Arthur or Sabine Pass as towI
sites simply. They have no special concerI
| for the personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Still
well or the kountzes or anybody else
is straight business proposition.
| Could the building of a canal. as talke'
OF. ten miles up the shallow lake. be II
the interests of the commerce of this grea
country Its way to the sea? II II Is
then hnsineSs man should he d. 'H " '"'