The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-06-02
Hon. BROUSSARD'S Address

other canal has been cut from rank
lin which might be utilized, aud .
third canal from Hanson City is now
being cut or soon to he, which might
he utilized, should It be deCreod Wise
to msvc FROM BAYOU Teche to Cote
lilat che Bay, hy that route. The same
Is true Of 4 great number OF other
y aces along the route OF the water
way ! cute this one because there Will
possibly he the most dlffiult cut III
the entire waterway. Both The Mul
ply s canal route and the l'aNou ~
prempit route have already been done
under the State authority, and need
very little additional expenditure I"
ful ~ the requ sites nt the proposed
waterway.
The cutting 81 the canal TO q depth
Of twelve feet, less deep than which
II should not he. should cost but The
smaller Part Of the estimated cost ot
800
The waterway can be cut it can
c tsi Y be cut IT must be cut t. a
depth Of twelve feet no less it must
be cut nus ,hus only ana At once.
For What purpose should this water
way be cut?
For coast defence r. move sal, y,
elisls, uncxposed from storms and
Il -.
armament, coast artillery, llght draft
cruise and provision IN case OF need
Tor that purpose It should not be lCsS
than tive We feet deep to move these
to any point Of attack to reach tGc
great number OF streams. empty log
Themselves INTO the Gulf of Mexico
which the inland waterway Aill ua
verse in it's grand function of marry
ing the Mississippi river and the Rio
Grande-to move these component
parts of defence up the Rio Grandc
river in case it should be our mis-
fortune to again disagree with our
western neighbor, which God forbid
or long delay TO move :,hcse from
the West to t II e Mississippi river
thence down the great river to the
Gulf and to the Great Lakes
From Chicago to 10 le', H.. the City.
of Chicago has cut drainage canal,
That city, where things are done. has
cut thirty miles of canal at a cost #
a million dollars mile. 1t propose
in the near future to spend twenty
millions more. 1t contends if the
United States Government will do for
Chicago what il did for the Wheat
Growers est of Lake Superior, and
the Iron Mine owner and mines of
the States OF Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota, when the government took
charge of the work already done by
local contribution at Saulte Ste. Marie
if the United States government
should take possession OF the Chicago
ca nal and spend SO, 100000 additional
or half what Chicago has spent on 1T,
the great Lakes will have fourteen
feet water route connecting them with
he Mississippi river and down it, with
| he Gulf of Mexico. Not long ago
Congressman Lorimer an d Ratney
made the trip in boat of small draft
from Chicago to New Orleans. They
travelled 1900 miles and ! was with
them short part of the trip. They
organized waterways associations IN
every city, town and hamlet between
Chicago aud New Orleans. At no dis
tant day this work will be done. Move
then. these objects | have just men
toned to the Great Lakes, to the
frontier of our only othcs neighbor IN
Moth America.
Again Lately bill recently passed
the House and has since been favor
able reported by the committee or
the Senate having charge OF IL, tor
the authority to cut a canal through
the States of Pennsylvania and Ohio,
connecting the Ohio riveS with Lake
Erie. This ship canal begins on the
Ohio river at some point between Bca-
yer and Pittsburg to some accessible
harbor on Lake Erie and shall have
a depth of at least twelve feet. Move
these objects then mp the Ohio river
INTO Lake Erie, through this canal
Such therof re is the purport OF cut
ing this waterway, but the incidental
benefits to accrue are no less import
ant. They are OF a magnitude n
extent OF which is in the future anf
battles accurate estimate. Through
this waterway may be moved the ful
half of the sugar production OF the
United States, the entire production
practically Of the sulphur of the Unit
ed States, nine-tenths of the entire
production of rice, nearly all the sal
mined in Ameria. a large percentag'
of our cotton production, the bull
of the oil production of the United
States, the immense product OF thu
forest, of pine OF cypress and bard
wood of Southwest Louisiana ant
Southern Texas, the reclamation o
thou sands upon thousands of acre
OF land so rich in producing capac 7.
and varied n its ability to adap
itself to the production of almos
everything the earth produces, tn
ope ming of abbatoirs to prepare int
meats immense herds OF cattle tn