The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-19
S3O,OOO.OO FOR JORDAN
AND WOLF RIVERS
Secured by Congressman E. ]. Bowers Before the
Sub Committees at Washington On Saturday
Bowers Secured Every Dollar Asked For Gulf
Coast improvements Something About Jordan
and Wolf Rivers Character and Volume Of
Business Carried on Annually.

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report to Congress last Saturday. Tn
items agreed upon relating to Congress
man Bowers district are as follows anc
the favorable adoption means the adop
ton practically of the same r..
Horn Island Pass majr& 800
Pascagoula river and -afthe
| improvement and MAIN 200, 600
Pascagoula, Leaf and ay riv'
ers, maintenance, s10,. oqa 10 41 aarbor,
$4,000; Gulfport harbor, maintenance
$4,000. On this project the committee
also agreed to recommend the abrogatior
and cancellation of the existing contract
for maintenance with Capt. J. T. Jones
of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad land
has substituted therefore the above
maintenance provision, carrying SAC, 600
per year, or $4,000 for the next two
! years. These figures, however, are not
final and it is thought they will be in
| creased to 100000. A provision will
also be reported carrying compensation
at the former contract price of $4,000 a
year from June, 1902, to July, 1907, the
date on which the present appropriation
goes into effect.
Improvement of Jordan and Wolf riv-
ers, $50, 900.
Pearl river, below Rockport, a new
plan of improvement is adopted to cost
100000, of which $4,000 is now appro-
priated and made available.
All these projects are in this district,
the Sixth Congressional of Mississippi,
represented by Hon. E. j. Bowers, OF
Bay st. Louis, who has in each instance
secured the maximum amount estimated
by the engineers, and in some instances
even more. Mr.. Bowers, during his term
in Congress, has initiated and set afoot
four new projects in his district and with
this bill every proposed river and harbor
improvement in this district is well and
under way. Surveys are ordered for
Biloxi, Miss, looking towards extending
that improvement into the back bay and
toward deepening the channel to meet
the demands of navigatioe, together with
a new survey of the bar and east Pearl
river.
WOLF AND JORDAN RIVERS.
Geographical location. = The Wolf
River rises in the southern part of Ma
rion County, Miss, flows in southeast
erly direction through Pearl River and
Harrison counties in the same State un-
til within short distance of its mouth,
when it makes right-angle bend to-
ward the southwest, and after following
the latter course for about five miles
finally empties into Bay St. Louis, Mis-
sissippi, on the eastern side of that
waterway. The total length of the river
is about IS or 80 miles, and its water
shed embraces about $50 square miles.
The Jordan River rises in Hancock
county, Miss, and flows generally some
what south of east, emptying into Bay
ST. Louis on the western side of the lat
ter waterway. The stream is shorter
than the Wolf River, but its watershed,
with that of its tributaries, includes an
area of about 385 square miles.
Bay St. Louis, into which these two
streams flow, is an estuary of Missis-
sippi Sound, and has an area of fifteen
square miles. The distance from the
mouth of Bay ST. Louis, across Missis-
sippi Sound to the Gulf of Mexico via
Cat Island, is about twenty miles; while
from the same point to Gulfport, Miss,
the distance is 20 miles, and to New Or
leans, La, via Lake Borgne Canal, it is
about 81 miles.
Resources, industries and commerce.
The country drained by the Wolf and
Jordan rivers is covered by yellow pine
timber of good quality. On account of
the presence of this timber the indus
tries on the streams consist principally
of logging, sawmilling, the manufacture
of charcoal, and the naval-stores bust
ness.
The towns situated along these rivers
are small, and the population tributary
to the streams is but sparse, apparently
less than 1000 persons in all. The
largest town on the Wolf River is De-
Isle, with a population of rs in 1900,
while Kiln Is the largest settlement in
the Jordan River territory and had
population of 81. No railroads exist in
the territory tributary to these streams,
and the greater portion of the outgoing
and incoming freight is shipped by
water.
The combined industries OF the two
streams are approximately as follows:
10 or IL sawmills, daily capacity OF
from 10000 to 10000 feet each; 10 or Is
charcoal manufactures; 1O or Il tur-
pentine operations; shipyards; IL or
20 general stores.
Forty-five schooners, with an average
tonnage of about Is tons, are regularly
engaged in the aboYe trade, as well as
other vessels which make irregular trips.
The total commerce of the two streams,
incoming and outgoing, during the cal
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