The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-19
CADDO LEvEE BOARD
Official Proceedings of the Session Held
on Wednesday, March IS, 1911.

AT regular meeting OF the Caddo
Levee Board held at the Office of the
secretary this the 18th day of March
1911, there were present W. B. Means.
J. J. Lay, John Sentell, J. NJ Robinson
and H. L. Heilperin. Absent: S. A
Dickson and J. w. Dixon.
Major Kerr, Chief State Engineer,
and Assistant State Engineer Lombard
and Attorney Land were present.
The board was called to order and
owing to the illness of President D ok
son, Mr.. John Sentelr was elected pres
ident pro tenn.
The minutes of meeting February 10
read and approved.
The following bills were read, allowed
and ordered paid: Thompson & Son
$4,000; George Holbrook 500; w. A.
Ogilvie $1,000
The following letter from E. N. Johe
ston, Captain Corps of Engineers, Of
date February Goth, was read and or
dered printed in the minutes
War Department, Office of the Chief
of Engineers, Washington, February 20,
IoII.-Mr. S. N. Kerley, Secretary Cad
do Levee Board, Shreveport, La: Sir
In view of a provision in the pending
river and harbor bill calling for further
examination of the Caddo Lake dam
project, the prospect of early reply to
the application of the Levee Board rela-
tive to diversion of Twelve Mile bayou
is not very promising. If the provision
becomes law the, organization viii. in
clude the subjects of drainage and food
protection as we'll as navigation and de
cision OH the request of tile Levee Board
can hardly be made until after receipt of
report on these matters By direction of
the chief of engineers. Very respectful
ly, F. N. JOHNSTON,
Captain Corps of Engineers.
The Gulf Refining Company applied
for extension of three months on lease
of the northwest quarter of southwest
quarter of section "a, township Fl, range
10. On motion the extension was grant
ed on payment of $500 per acre. Car
ried
The Standard Oil Company made ap-
plication for ninety days extension OF
time on 80 acres in southeast quarter of
northeast quarter section "a, township
20, range I6 Same was on motion
granted on payment of $4,000. Carried,
On motion of ]. M. Robinson, second
ed by Mr. Means, the. president was au-
thorized to sign right of way agreement
across Levee Board lands on payment
of $I37.75, being CSC per rod. Carried.
Mr. NJ A. Dickson appeared before
the board and asked that levee be con-
structed from Twelve Mile bayou to
| McWilliams Hill, a distance of about
= I-2 miles
After some discussion with Major
Kerr, it was decided to publish his letter
of date February Il, 1911, as follows:
/ New Orleans, La, Feb. "a, Io1I.-Mr
| S. N. Kerley, Secretary Board of Com
missioners of Caddo Levee District
Shreveport, La: Dear Sir-I have the
honor to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of the 10th inst, advising that at
a meeting of the Board of Commission
ers of the Caddo Levee District, held on
February 10, 1911, petitions were pre-
sented by citizens in the lower part Of
what is, for convenience, generally &c
signated as the upper Caddo Levee Dis
trict,' that is, that part of the district
lying north Of Shreveport, regarding
the extension of the lower line of levee
and the closing of Twelve Mile bayou"
Furthermore, that, after considerable
discussion, a letter written by me, under
date of August 2, 1910, was read, result
ing in your being instructed to write
and say that the Board of State En-
gineers was requested to make a survey
and submit a full report as to the cost
and practicability of the proposition, al
a meeting to be held by the board or
March Is.
Reference to the letter i'll question
shows that it already contains and sets
forth the very information desired By
the board, as explained in your letter.
The proposition as a whole, that is
the extension of the line Of levee, from
its present lower terminus down to anC
across Twelve Mile bayou and theme
to Cross bayou, with the correlativt
necessary adjunct, the opening of ;
channel from Twelve Mile bayou t.
Cross bayou, by way of "The Pass,
Boomers Ditch, ETC., to dispose of the
drainage of the territory above, nov
carried by Twelve Mile bayou, when tht
stage of Red river permits, is therein
declared, under the conditions outlined
practicable.
Also, after a careful reconnaissance
of the ground, and study of authenti,
maps, showing topography, contours