The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-07-25
MOUND CITY DYKE.
Will be Started Soon by Capt.
Barrett, Who Has Contract
WORK WILL BE COMPLETED IN
FOUR MoNTHs.-WILL BE A
GREAT BENEFIT FOR
CAIRO.

natl of the Barrett line of steamboats,,
arrived in Padueah yesterday to make
preliminary arrangements TO build the
two bikes at Mound City. H., gov
eminent contract for which he secur-
ed thirty days ago The advertising
of the contract by the government was
gone about quietly and little If any
thing has been in the papers about the |
letting of il. The news that it has
been let will come as a pleasant sur
prise to Tiyermen and shippers be-
tween here and Paducah
Capt. Barrett, accompanied by his
St Louis agent Capt. w. J. Lewis. |
arrived in Paducah on the steamer
Beaver which has just received
new hull. They are en- route up Ten
nessee river to look after stone to
be used in constructing the bikes and
viii be gone several days. Capt Bar
rett gave out the following facts rela-
tive to his contract and the compile
| ton of the work:
THE government originally intend
ed to build three dikes in the lower
Ohio one at Ogden's Landing, and two
At Mound City, but after the appro-
oriation had been whitfield down, it
was found that only $4,000 could be
allowed this Improvement which cut
1ut the dixie at Ogdens.
The work was advertised in the
st. Louis papers and few persons
knew what II was for besides con-
tractors. which is the reason little
| was said on the outside These dikes
will mean great deal to the people
If Padueah and Cairo 1t will mean a
good stage of water between the two
places, with always a good stage at
Cairo. of course the Ogden dixie
would better the situation but this
viii follow later. possibly next year,
when the rivers and harbor appro-
1riation is made
II expect TO start work within thir-
" days, when the river reaches a ID
DOT stage at Cairo, and will complete
ny contract within four months
nave made some preliminary arrange
nents and am now en- route up the
Tennessee river to stone quarries TO
zee about getting the stone,
II Capt Barrett and Capt. Lewis are
10Th of the opinion that the marine
people generally should repeatedly
!. | ind persistantly demand larger and
, continuous river and harbor appro
Driation and state that this is tbs
pnly way the rivers will ever get any
, appropriation.
The annual appropriation has beer
90 small and after 1t has been shaved
Town by the government" Capt. Levi
Explained, the interior rivers get lit
! lie or nothing. This small appropr a
!, ion for the OHIO VIII do world o
good, but there yet remains a grea
zeal to do In the way of improve
ments and rhe people should deman'
hat the government make large an
! preparation for the interior rivers
This can not be made too strong b.
he press, because It is going to b
!, aiken up all over the country am
! worked to the bone.
! The greater portion of the apprC
lriaton goes to the harbors in th
last, west and south, and also o
Il the lakes, and when the government
! gets through splitting It up, the Ii
{ terror rivers get but little What th
Interior men intend to do in To ~
after the government good and stFon
an and make 1t see that the inland ri
), ers are just as important to the cor
NJ mercial success of the country as tt
outside harbors"
The only reason that Capt. Barre
no has not begun work on the bikes b
,ts fore now is that the river has bee
n unusually high for this season of Il
year and he has had to wait for 10
water. He is an expert in the lii
l. and needless to say will give the go
II, eminent as good and quick job
n II could possibly get.
!, The dikes will practically enah
boats to run between Paducah al
Cairo the year round Frequently q
al liver gets so low between these pIac
IN thar even the smallest boats cam
IN run, completely suspending navigati
,ra from here to Paducah When {
3, dikes are completed this will like
be a thing Of the past. aud boats G
III run the year around.
oil In another year or two dixie "
IA likely be built at Ogden's Landi
~ H. also which will further benefit /
~ OHIO between Cairo and Paducah.