The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1906-09-14
DRA|NAGE IN
'DADf COUNTY
p,lm Beach News Interviews
Nv. Stranahan
rHfGOvtRNOR'S WORK
s.o,o,ade is the Most Powerful
!" o,sdge now Being Used Says
Prominent Engineer

, " Stranahan, of Font lauderdale
.',i in town last week for several days
,'b,suess, says the Palm Beach News
n, Stranahan is the owner of Sem
,os Park, a place of resort on the
w., beach just south of New River
sl,t and but a short distance from
r Iauderdale, and he claims that
An place will be largely patronlzed and
!. oOe of the coming and prominent
a,t coast resorts the coming season.
"a "a this end he is bending every
Energy he possesscS'
10 Is also man of observation, and
,,m,alN notices what is going on
,,ooud him, wherever he may he, and
generally able to tell about what he
40, without straining either the die
torarv or the truth to any great extent.
y,owinp these facts in regard to Mr..
aranahan. the News interviewed him
while he was in this city to find OUT
vhat he knew about matters around
yor Lauderdale, DANA and the sur
nunding country.
He stated that Reed A, Bryan, who
| i the superintendent of Governor Bro
wards drainage matters at Fort Laud-
gdale and vicinity, was keeping the
work going satisfactorily to the Gov
,mor, who frequently visits Fort Laud-
udsle to see, from personal observation
| bow the work is progressing.
The dredge Everglades, in charge of
Gus Burr, of Chicago, and formerly
working for the Chicago Drainage
Board, is at work digging the canal
from New River westerly into the
gades, and handled over 80, 600 cubic
yards Of rock and muck, just to show
what it could do before it was accepted.
]. Hendricks, representative of the
lsatherstone Foundry & Machine Com
nny Chicago, the builders of the
dedge had charge of it during the
tst and pronounced it the best and
most powerful dredge he ever saw
work.. He is the one who turned the
t'edge over to the State, and on the
slowing it made it was accepted by
Governor Broward.
The canal that is being dug is 20 feet
vide and fully 10 feet deep its entire
sagth up to where the dredge is now
working. This dredge is los feet in
agth, 40 feet beam, 5 feet draft and
a@upped with dipper of ~ cubic
N'ds capacity and is throwing out at
Vast % cubic yards of rock and muck
aeVery dip at present, as it is work.
ny IN about feet of rock and s feet
ddrt.
Inc dredge is averaging from |, 500
azUO cubic yards day as the rock
@it limestone, This rock extends
,am the beginning of the canal at New
aver out about three miles into the
gades
'nefe Is no necessity to clear anead
me dredge, as it is SO powerful that
y, not only takes these 30 cubic yard
"'es out of the solid rock or dirt, but
AAsS up bushes, snags, stumps and
wei i've cypress and other trees, even
.~up'e OF feet in diameter, almost as
.''ay as 1t does the soft muck, and de-
.""s everything on either side of the
.~ aa' az easily as lightning express
,~ % Knocks a stray porker off the
IVA between stations when it is run
% S' to make up lost time.
."e second dredge is nearly COM
,"'eu' and will cost less than the first
~, OWmg to everything being already
M s4ape Tor going on with the work,
n,; sNO from points learned by the ex-
r IN building the first one.
.,. sp'a'0s Skinner and Cassidy are in
,. ss OF the construction of this
pss. u dredge, and they are highly
N sa :, with the progress being made.
i. :. ''s'm 1t is the best dredge build
ad we best dredges ever constructed
aM, a. these dredge and the manner
shs,. I !; will be samples for building
1 %s IN the future.
Rns ' =, aFedge lrishman, owned by E. T.
G ~ dredging canal from the F.
Ut Co.'s canal east of Dania to