The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-07-11
SURVEY STARTED
ON COSAT CANAL
1T WILL CONNECT BOSTON WITH
FLORIDA AND OTHER
STATES
The Survey Will Be in Charge OF
Army Offcers-Canal is Intended
to Tap, the St. Johns River and
Proceed to Key West.

Boston, July 10.-The proposed bill
lion dollar intercoastal waterway
from Boston to New Orleans, is now
likely to be reality, the survey for
the work having been started by
Lieut. Col. Edward Barr, army en-
gineer for the Boston district He
has appointed First Lieut.. U. S. Grant,
3D. U. S. engineering corps, to take
charge of the six crews now in the
field working on the survey between
Boston and Taunton. These crews
consist of surveymen, rodmen and
laborers. Colonel Burr has an ap-
preparation of $25,OC0 with which to
carry on the survey. The sum. ac-
cording to the colonel, will not com
plete the work. He will ask for
more.
The survey for the first section of
the canal, from Boston to Beaufort,
will be under the direction of a board
Of United States engineer officers as
follows: From Bostoon to Taunton.
Lieut., Col Burr; Lieut. Col. James
c. Sanford, Taunton to New York;
Col. William Black, New York 10
Wilmington; Capt. Lewis H. Rand,
Wilmington to Norfolk; Lieut.. Col
Joseph Kuhn, Norfolk to Beaufort
An idea Of what such a canal would
cost can be had from the estimate of
the Massachusetts harbor and land
commission, which figured the cost of
canal, from Boston to Taunton at
$5O,OOO,OOO. Colonel Burr Is not TAX
ing this survey, as he expects that he
can obtain a route which will cost
less.
To Be 25 Feet Deep.
The proposed canal from Boston to
Beaufort is to be maximum deptb
Of 25 feet, and built with most M
proved locks.
The building of the canal will not
actually begin until congress nakes.
the appropriation. The present board
OF engineers will make the survey
Obtain the cost of necessary land and
the probable cost of purchasing canals
which can be Utilized
The proposed waterway is to be
large enough for naval, military and
commercial purposes. Naval officers
are now preparing plans on what will
be the least depth through which q
battleship can pass.
The government officials are keen
ing the exact line Of the canal a &c.
cret, so that they will not be bothered
with land owners raising the prices
OF property or swamping the govern
ment with influence.
The object of the route Is to en-
able mariners 10 avoid the dangerous
waters around Cape Hatteras and
the projecting points Of land. which
necessitate ships going out far to
sea and losing considerable time If
IS also expected that it will develop
a certain part of the country through
winch 1t will pass, and assist to ce-
ment the north and south CONNER
cally
This is the first important detail to
come to Lieutenant Grant, grandson
OF the famous civil war general r.
comes on his anniversary of ten years
in the service
shun Cape Cod Canal.
1t was at first thought that the
cape Cod canal could be utilized but
1t has been found that there are han
dlcaps in the high lands lying he
tween the mouth Of the Cape Cod
canal and the headwaters of Nara
gansett Bay.
Inc canal from Beaufort to Kew
"'St VIII be Of maximum d.,pth of
Twelve feet, as follows, from Beaufort
70 Winyah Bay, thence to the Sc
johns river to Key West.
Another canal will run from ST
George Sound, Florida, across the
state Of Florida TO the Atlantic coast
making the southern part of Florida
an island, instead Of a peninsula.