Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-01
GALVESTON IS
TO Celebrate
new CANAL
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.tion and opening to traffic Of an IN
land waterway 200 miles In length,
this being but a section Of great
project covering distances OF suu
niles and extending from the Mlssis-
sippi river to the Rio Grande below
Brownsville, Is an event that Is being
fittingly commemorated. A monster
motor boat parade took place today
in Galveston harbor in which more
than five hundred motor craft OF all
descriptions participated, most OF
them having trayersed the route OF
the completed section OF the canal,
from Corpus Christi to Galveston. A
three days celebration of the event
will take place at Galveston, which
great port is at present the eastern
terminus of the great inland water
way. In commPmOration Of the occa-
sion the Galveston News issued an in
tercoastal canal edition on SUNDAY,
june s, in which it SAYS. The COM
pleted section of the interc0astal ca
nal extends from Galveston, Tex, to
Corpus Christi, Tex, distance OF
approximately 200 miles, skirting the
coast line of the great Lone Star
state and connecting many navigable
streams, rivers, bayaus, creeks and
canals. Thousands of acres. Of rich
virgin. prairie are drained by this ca
nal, supplied with transportation IA
cilities and opened to settlement. All
cities and towns along the Texas
coast between Galveston and Corpus
Christi, as well as all cities and
towns on nayigable streams connect
ing with the intercoastal canal, are
now given direct water communities
tion with the great jobbing center Of
Galveston and are afforded an outlet
to this great port for their products.
THE effect Of the iRtercoastal ca
nal will not be local; IL is not local
project, but is national in it's scope.
This inland waterway, skirting the
coasts Of Louisiana and Texas, is but
a link in the great national plan for
a protected waterway for small craft
along the entire eastern seaboard of
the United States. The plans of the
federal government call for an inter-
coastal canal from Maine to the Mex
lean border, and there has been con-
siderable agitation, with more. or less
promise of cooperation on the part
of the Latin-American countries to
connect with the Panama canal The
completion of tho Galveston Corpus
Christi section of the intercoastal ca
raj is a step toward the final realiza-
ton of this ideal 8
"The intercoastal canal in Texas
and Louisiana has been surveyed
through its entire length and esti-
mates made by the government en-
gfneers. The final project calls for
"a canal nine feet deep and one hun
dred feet wide extending from the
Mississippi river near New Orleans
to the Rio Grande near Brownsville
Estimates for such canal amount to
SIC, 100000. The canal is practically
cut through from the Mississippi
river to the Sabine river, which forms
the Texas-Louisiana line, and from
Galveston, Tex, to Corpus Christi,
Texas, a total distance OF about 400
miles. Work will go forward on the
section of the canal between Calves
ton, Tex, and the Sabine river, and
when this section is cut through an
inland waterway from the Mississippi
river to Corpus Christi, Tex, a dis
lance of approximately 400 miles, will
be completed.
This work is being done under the
supervision of the United States en-
gineers, Lieutenant Colonel Charles
s.. Richie, in charge of the Galveston
district, having charge of the work
in Texas, and Major Edward Schultz,
engineer in charge of the Louisiana
district at New Orleans, having
charge of the work in Louisiana.
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