The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-06
WORK ON SHIP CHANNEL
BIG DREDGE HAS GONE TWO MILES
IN A MONTH.
Ten Miles OF the Work Have Been Com
pleted-Report on the Tonnage
During January.

La Porte. Texas, February Or. W Car
roll Of the arm of William Gallatin Car
roll Il Co. financial agents Of the La Port,
Wharf and Channel company. and {. ON.
Crowley of London arrived here today Nj
Crowley Is associated with number
prominent English cap ta,lsts and came hey,
to look over the shipping interests OF Hous
ton, Galveston and La Porte and the worl
of the new sItp chanhel TO this place Il
has been favorably impressed by his In
spection Of the work and will visit bot
Houston aud Galveston for the purpose O."
securing Information concerning the com
mercial activity of the two places before
leaving again for the North.
Captain K. r. Tailor, the resident en-
gineer in charge of the work on the chan
Iel furnishes the following details with
reference to the progress made on the chan
mel during the month of January. Dredgcs
Nos ) and have eXcaYated total OF 1lB,
COO cubic yards of material and have ad
vanced over mile during the month. No
9, the big dredge. which is at work below
Red Fish bar and working toward Calves
ten, removed 2T4,S64 cubic yards and ad
Yanced almost two miles. The government
officials announce that the dredges have al
most passed through all the hard material
that will be encountered, and that more
rapid progress viii be made from now until
the work is completed A total of over ten
miles of channel has been finished.
j. A. Black. special government agent az
the Point has fled his report for the month
of January, showing the number Of vessels
and the tonnage which passed La Porte
during the month. The following is sum
mary of It.;
Upward bound. 14O vessels with 1894
tons, of which slxty-eight vessels with
tonnage of 1856 were In the employ Of the
government or its contractors dowhWasl
bound, l52 vessels, with 1853 tons, o.
which hfty-seYen vessels with a tonnage Of
1850 were in the employ of the government
or its contractors: total. 300 vessels; ton
mage 1T.0T7. OF which 165 vessels with a
tonnage OF 26l6 were in the employ OF the
government or its contractors.
The management of the La Porte saw
and planning mill announces that the plsnt
will DE completed aud put In operation
next Monday.
The funeral of Henry Small and his wife.
who died here yesterday, took place this
afternoon. The disposition Of the foul
small orphan children is being discussed BY
the neighhors, and II is likely that an ef
fort win be made to secure their adlniss on
TO a home In Houston.
1t has Just been discovered that the de
cree of the court In the recent election
contest cases has left the board OF alder
men in a middle The formal decree was
entered last Saturday when Judge Asho
decided TO seat / X. Norris who was on
the Holmes ticket and assessed one.third
OF the costs of the proceeding upon j Y
Stabler one Of the contestants. The dr-
cision was In favor OF three OF me CO..
testing aldermen. Int as one OF the nl6ah
men declared elected last April was mo-
made a party 90 the SBt the court deelde1
not TO disturb his right TO a seat, In con
sequence OF which there are now three
men TO hll two places. The matter nlay
come up at the next meeting OF tue alder
men, but II Is difficult to foreten how II
can he adjusted.