The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-11-24
PLACUEMiNE TO
THE MERMENTA AU
Mai. Jadwin Recommends
Immediate Work on
Inland Waterway.
500, 900 Expended wifi Save Mil
lions to South Louisiana.


The following interesting al ticle
comes flom Galveston, Texas:
Major Edgar Jadwin, United
States engineer, returned last eve
ming from weeks tour of tb.
route OF the proposed intercOasta al
:ana in western Louisiana. lie is
well pleased with conditions AS ht
found them and does not hesitate
say that he will recommend the
construction of the light draft Ca
ial through this section, which eX-
tends from a point about six miles
last of White lake to and beyond
The western limits Of Grand lake
tbout fifty miles, and brings the III
,pcct. d and light draft canal pro
ject to within 60 or 10 miles of tn,
Texas line. On previous .Oul
Major Jadwin investigated aud will
iayorably recommend IN his report
hat section of the canal from its
eastern terminus, Plaquemine, La
to .hc point east Of White lax,
rhe entire route Of the proposeG
wat erway vii extend from Plaque
mine, La, to the Rio Grand OF
the west.
White Lake and Grand l.; Ike al,
connected by a series of three small
lakes and narrow light draft canals
constructed 10y the private citizens
of that section The canal Ma jOr
Jadwin will recommend for the
present viii be forty feet vide and
five feet deep. and the section re
ferl,d to will require very little
dredgiog, except to widen TIE chan
nels, because the lakes and canals
are practically five feet deep
The six-mile stretch east If White
lake is marsh and will have to be
dredged. Major Jadwin roughly
estimates that the entire section
of something like fifty miles can
be opened to light draft naviga
ton for less than 800, 600, and il
will open upa country Iich in rice
luml,eI, oil. cotton and sugar cane
/ The weeks tour was made II
company with MT. Henry l.. Guey
dan, a prominent and progressive
citizen of that section, .ybO i
greatly interested in the intercoast
al canal project. lie was p'esl
| dent of the waterway convention
recently held at Lake Charles.
| By the construction or extension
of the light draft canal through
this section the following impor
tant places Will be opened to wat
erway navigation: Pecan Island
living to !he southeast Of Wilt
lake; Grand Chenler, Guryda'
district, Lake Arthur, Mel mentau
Jennings, Crowley, the Lacasin
territory and adj j,rent country
These commercial and agriculture
canters communicate through a sc
ries of narrow canals cOnhectin
the larger bodies Of water an
eventually reach the railroad ali
shin to New Orleans, with the el
ceptlon of Grand Chenier shic
sl,ips some cotton by schooner I
Galveston, and Jennings, whic
ship, oil to Port Arthur.
An illustration Of wha. the car
Al Will do if constructed, AR. Hey
wood Of the jennings oil feel
informed Majr Jadwin that til
output OF this field is 10000 ba
rels a day, which, he said, II
could be shipped by the watt
route, would mean saving OF
J cents a barrel in freight rate
This would mean $4,000 a da.
or over 81 ,OOC, ,O0Oa year. In oth'
words, the saving on this one pr
duct alone would be annually tt
: ines the cost Of the cana! al
3 maintenance. AS a matter
! fact Major lad sin says there h'
teen considerable talk of that Sc
i'm connecting :he ca"a's al
WATERWAYS on their own accOui
Major Jadwiu met the busine
men and farmers in this secti'
and with them discussed the pl
position Of an inland can
extending from tue Mississippi
PIaquemine to the Rio Grand