The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-04
" OF THE BRAzOS
REssMEy URGED TO
n APPROPRIATION.
Bryan Believes the
he Opened Easily
SIvcs Reasons.
May s.--The following

}the house today.
people living In the Brazos
st determined to open that
xIt jon, and are now oxorting
I ~ that direction. and
tA6 opening Of said river to
mekns a great deal to Texas in
dtvtlopment; therefore. be 1t
~ The house of representa-
every Texas congressman be
hereby requested to urge upon
appropriation sufficient TO
lver for navigation.
Masterson.
,nue0tIon the following inter
Ion. Guy NJ. Bryan relative to
70 Improve the Brazos viii
astlng:
nv years ago was delegate
ia cohnty to convention that
town OF Washington on the
\. The object of said conven-
tnl<6 the preliminary steps for
lfa1ent of the BRACES river and
lna6&ats thereon for the re-
81 MODS. Two of the active
f4ek convention | recollect TO
Dr. II B. Miller of Fort Bend
Dr. r. r. PEBBLES of Austin
eIdtter had relatives in Ports
). who had steamboat interests
*. Through DR.. PEBBLES main
nenf8 were made TO place two
tho Brazos river; the beats
the Washington aud the Braz-
4 several years they nayigated
Iafte of the year, taking off the
" eonetimes went as high as
Bluffs and brought the cotton
a mouth of the Brazos, and
IL was taken by boats to CAL
When Texas sold her New Mex
~ to the United States, a por-
money was appropriated by the
to the improvements of the
lHll portion of it. | was then
,lature from Brazoria and Fort
les, representing Brazoria AMI
counties. Judge Gustavus Cook
Mime the comfy judge of Fort
N, he and I secured a skin at
and hired two men to row the
q and / sounded the river from
ID tide water; we found a num-
Eand mud bars with deep pools
owe them, and in every instance
fhat these bars seemed to be
snags or salt weeds being Gas-
le bottom OF the river, around
debris is held by the water
be and kept notice of the
writing down and the other
siness called me TO Little
y there l met two intelligent
from Virginia, who had pur-
on Red river with a view to
heir negroes from Virginia to
upon said plantations. They
ling by water up the MISSISSIPPI
o rivers to Virginia, and as
to the same place, we became
acquainted on the boat. When
Cincinnati they bought two
carried them along with them
n1boat. When we reached Guy
the Ohio, We there landed;
ode across the mountains from
Va, TO that point on horseback,
lefr horses to a farm near Guy
l there took the steamboat on
to Kansas. AS we had become
inted, and liking each others
By prevailed upon me to send
BY Htage to the White Sulphur
lere I was going, to ride one of
s In company with them, which
went UP the Kanawha valley,
cached Charleston ! saw there
mber of fatboats. inquired
were so many f1atboats. |. was
iere their only mode of getting
Town the river, of which they
quantities, as the river at
very low on account If ia.s.
steamboats, that navigate the
ascend that river and take of
I'D the coal and products of
~ Without difficulty in conse-
he dams and rocks which have
ructed at the shoals.
hree years ago | spent part Of
with my two daughters on the
In Pennsylvania, about twenty
" Pittshurg. There who're |
n 2extensiye work for the ina
OF the navigation Of the Ohio
g United States government.
hess works. which consisted of
n one side OF the river to the
re there was a lock through
mboaks passed at low stages of
, Monongahela river is damned
way and navigation made for
u 4 was Informed. and the har-
sburg Is made by dams on that
the war. when a member of the
I went down by stage on my
he as far as the town of Wash
hen reached there | found the
Mustang going down the river.
c0ntinuing on the stage. as |
sed. 10 Houston, | got on sSid
and Went down the river within
OF my home. | have forgotten
The steamboat was there for
. Of Taking the crops down the
i'm perfectly satisfied that the
n can be made navigable at all
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