Arizona republican., 1913-06-16
INTERCOASTAL CANAL
 OPENED AT GALVESTON
T Commemoration Of Event the
 News Issues Special Edition

GALVESTON. Tex. June 15-Thc completion and opening to traffic of an inland waterway 200 miles in length. this being but d section of q great project covering distance of
 700 miles and extending from the
 Mississippi river to the Rio Grande below Brownsville. IS an event a fit- ting commemoration of which just closed here. X monster motor boat
 parade took place Thursday in Gal weston harbor in which more than
 five hundred motor craft of all dcs- Criptions participated most of them.
 having traVerstd the route of the
 completed section of the canal from
 Corpus Christi to Galveston. X
 three days celebration of the event
 followed at Galveston, which great
 port is at present the eastern term
 mus of the great inland waterway.
 In commomoration of the occasion
 The Galveston News issued an Inter
 coastal Canal Edition on Sunday, June
 $, in which it says.
 The completed section of the in tercoastal canal extends from Calves
 ton, Tex, to Corpus Christi. Tex. q distance of approximately 200 miles skirting the coast line of the great Lone Star state and connecting with many naVigable streams, rivers, ba- yous, creeks and canals. Thousands of acres of rich virgin prairie are drained by this canal supplied with transportation facilities and opened to settlement. All cities and towns along the Texas coast between Gal Neston and Corpus Christi. as well as all cities and towns OF navigable
 -..Iy coastal canal are now given direct water communication with the great iobbing center of Galveston and are
 afforded an outlet to this great port for their products.
 The effect of the IntcrcoastM ca nal will not be local: it is not a Io- cal project. but is national iu it. i scope. This inland waterway skirt , ing .hc coasts of Louisiana and TcN-
 as is but a link in the great national plan for a protected Waterway for 1 small craft along the entire eastern ! scaboard of the United States. Th" ! plans of the federal government r@H ! for an intercoastal canal from Nam" to the Mexican border. and there ] aae been considerable agitation. with more or less promise of cooperation tn the part of the Latin American [
 waterway to connect with the Para- ma canal The completion of the 1 Galveston Corpus Christi section oi 1 the intercoastal canal is step to- 1 ward the final rcaliauon of this ideal l The fntercoastal canal in TcNas and | Louisiana has been surveyed through 1 it's entire length and estimates made bv the government engineers Tn" l final project calls for canal nine | feet deep and one hundred feet Wje l extending from the Mississippi river near New Orleans to the Rio Grand" near Brownsville Estimates for such ! 4 canal amount to $1o.oooooo Tn" can.rl i- practically cut through from 1 the Mississippi river to the SahIh" i river. which forms the Texas L"uls- l jana line. and from Galveston. Tex 1s to Corpus Christi. Tex. total distance of about 400 miles Work
 v.iu 20 forward on the section of ! tba canal between Galveston, Tex. and the Sabine river. and when this section iS cut through an inland Wa
 teruav from the Mississippi river '" ! Corpus Christi. Tex. distanc" "i
 approximatcIy 500 miles will he com ] rIeted
 "The work is being done under tn" 1 supervision of the United states on | ginccrs. Lieutenant Colonel Charles < Riche. in charge of the Galveston district. having charge of tn" ""r"
 in Texas. and Major Edward schultz engineer in charge of the I-ouisana district at New orleans, having charge of the work in Louisana-
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