Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-10-30
AWAITS COMING
OF TAFT
Deep Waterways
Convention DELAYS
Opening
PRESIDENT IN NEW ORLEANS
Greeted by Roar of Battle
ship Guns And Cheers
of Populace.

New Orleans, La, Oct 30-The op-
ening of the Lakes TO the Gulf Deep
Waterways convention this morning
was postponed until nearly noon be-
cause of the delay in arrival of Presi-
dent Taft The morning was given
up to officers addresses and reports
of committees.
New Orleans, La, Oct. 30-Amid
the roar of guns from battleships and
cheers of a hundred thousand people,
President Taft concluded his trip down
the river at 10 o'clock today, when he
landed at the foot of Canal street He
was taken to the St Charles hotel
where he reviewed the parade. After
reception Of many prominent men
and a short rest, the President lunch
ed alone with Archbishop Blenk He
spoke few words to students of
Jesuit College and then delivered his
address before the Lakes-to-the-Gulf
Waterways convention. After listening
for time to Forester Pinchot, who fol
dent witnessed a portion Of the Tulane
Mississippi foot ballgame He dined at
the Pickwiclz Club.
Deep Waterway Accomplished Fact.
. New Orleans, La, Oct 30.--"The
plan for deep waterway is an accom-
plished fact. What we need now is
action" declared w. K. Kavanagh,
president of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf
Deep Waterway Association, in his
address at the opening of its conven-
tion today. The history of the Mis-
sissippt river has been story of in
action and of niggardly appropriations
which have been fought through the
rivers and harbors committee. and
through Congress without rhyme or
reason" said the speaker. The
whole valley is sick with the conges-
ton of its transportation system, and
only this deep waterway can relieve
it. The people of the Mississippi val
ley must have definite assurance that
this carrier is to be completed at
certain date, and that date must not
pletion of the Panama canal"
Mr.. kavanagh said that the people
looked to President Taft for the exc
cution of the great task. He referred
to the executives trip down the river.
saying
He has seen the richest farm lands
in the world crumhllng from it's banks,
dlssclvil g in its waters; he has seen
levees that protect $4,000 square
miles of this rich alluvial threatened
by these caving banks; he has seen
the remains of uncompleted revet.
ments that have been torn away by
the river, because a neglectful Con-
gress had not provided for their COM
pIetlon, and he has seen a thousand
mile channel unburdened by a single
modern vessel, the docks of it's many
cities unmarked by single installa-
tior Of modern terminal apparatus
There was day when the Missis-
sippi was considered an untamable
, stream, which shifted it's channel and
devoured its banks at will Today
we are able to show the President OF
the United States two remarkable
changes; one of these is a river which,
in its most difficult and most readily
shifting parts, has been bound down
ny the engineers to a fixed channel,
with permanent banks; that has been
forced to scour its own bed and per-
NIT the passing of deeper ships.
The other is great garden land
of soil worth from 800 to 5000 an
acre, capable of producing in crops
every year enough money to pay
many times over the entire cost of
!, producing a 14-foot channel from Chi
cago to New Orleans, and this soil pro-
tected from waste only by those same
engineering devices which have held
the river in its fixed bed and which
make the deep waterway.
We have shown him this. and now
we are ready to ask him to extend
the revetments which do this work
into every bend on the Mississippi,
and to carry this deep waterway and
the protection to farm lands adjacent
: to it throughout the course of the
: Mississippi.
we wish to go further than this
! Improvement revetment and contrac-
! ton, and to see some broad general
: pan adopted which shall cover the
: whole control of the water in the riv-
er, shall lessen the floods, and give us
more general flow at low water,
, and at the same time restrict the
: channel. We believe that this work
must be carried on not piecemeal by
: local divisions, and subject to occa-