Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-08-27

for this work.
AS the proposed waterway contem-
plates great benefits to the gulf coast
states, and its success depends largely
on memberships secured and interest
manifest in the Gulf states, will you
not publish a subscription list solicit
ing membership?
Fees are as follows:
Individual membership, annual fees
/ 50 90.
Firms and corporations, annual
fees, $500.
Organizations, 400 or less, annual
fees, $3.50.
Organizations, 400 to 600, annual
fees, $500.
Organizations, 600 to 1000, annual
fees, $3.50.
Organizations, over 1000, annual
fees, $4,000.
Waterways Associations, annual
fees, $1,000.
Additional donations will be appre-
ciated.
Mr. j. G.. Ruge, of Apalachicola,
heads the list of donations with 500.
LELAND J. HENDERSON.
The Times gives its unqualified sup
port to this great movement. Owing
to shortness of time Apalachicola
citizens are requested to send in their
subscriptions at once.
Will exchanges of the Times publish
subscription list for membership,
collect and remit the fees to Secre-
tary Leland j. Henderson, Apalachi-
cola, Florida. Literature on the pro-
posed Waterways and information
with regard to the Columbus conven-
ton on November go next, will be
furnished on application to the sec
rotary.
Extract from letter written by
Col. p II. Raiford to the Savannah
Morning News, and referred to the
Chamber of Commerce, of Savannah,
Ga. Familiar, as most we'll informed
persons of the south are, with the
general characteristics of the Mexi-
can Gulf coast, with the bays, lakes
and sounds, but Sew have had their
attention called to the practicability
of utilizing, by cheap improvements,
the inner waters of this shore, so as
to make them form, for the purpose
of navigation, connecting link for
all the rivers which flow through
them into the waters of the Gulf
From the Mississippi to the Apa-
lachicOla river the distance is about
400 miles. Between these rivers,
those of the states of Mississippi and
Alabama debOuch into a system of
land-lOcked cstuaries which stretch
eastward and westward along the
shore points very nearly of contact,
the severing of which by canals will
constitute the work which will bring
together the navigation of these
rivers, without any other point touch
ing the waters of the gulf or waters at
all hazardous for inland boats.
1.-The Lake Borgne canal, which
leaves the Mississippi just below New
Orleans-now nearly completed (1873)
will perfect a line of land-locked
navigation from the Mississippi to
the eastern arm of Mobile bay, 16S
miles. From Mobile bay, cut of five
miles will continue the same charac-
ter of navigation to Perdido bay; four
miles more will bring it to Pensacola,
! SantO Roso Sound and Choctaw-
| hatchee Bay, all in a continuous line
! Eastward, and to within nine miles of
! st. Andrews, which reaches point
from which a cut of six miles will
conect the whole system with the
/ Apalachicola.
| Thus it will be seen that about 80
miles of canaling-mOstly through sea
marsh-is necessary to be done, to
/ enable the boats of 10000 miles of
navigable waterlines to reach a point
within $50 Il lies of the city of Savan
nah and toreach the presenter
of the Atlantic and Gulf railroad. y
Extract from Landlocked Navigation
/ from Long Island Sound to the Mis-
sissippi river, by Capt. Spencer {.