Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-07-03
C0B0L|NI MAKES
CANAL REPORT
GIVES INTERESTING DATA RE
GUARDING INTERCOASTAL IN
LAND WATERWAY FROM CORP
Us TO GALVESTON.
FROM CORPUS BRAZOS TO SAN
TIAGO.

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Mr.. Louis Cobolini. special representa-
/ tive of the Chamber of Commerce and
the city Of Brownsville delivered the re-
port Of his trip. The report was more III
the nature Of Il statistical one and a
statement of his visit to the district t.
:. Engineer and a compilation of rea-
sons why BraZos Santiago should be
made into Il port rather than a descrip-
tiOn of the tine he had and what he
saw while on the naval parade from
Corpus to Galveston. However this was
the report and it proved of much
interest to the members of the board and
one that gave them food for thought. 1t
will pay every man who has the inter
est of the Lower Rio Grande Valley at
at heart to read the report and to give
it the full credence of his judgment, was
the opinion expressed by one who had
heard it read
The report was accepted. Those pres
ent were Messrs. Scott. Mason. More,
McGary a. \. Browne, O'Brien and Co
bOlini.
Following is Mr. Cobo ini'S repor,:
Railways came first in the United
States in 1927, and in time promised 10
provide the needed transportation facii
tiles for our intra and Interstate com
mercc. but numerous and enterprSing as
they have been and are. still they con
fesScdly fail now to met the requirements
of commerce and their vast equipment is
now and always will be inadequate to do
the business of the country.
The railway freight rates are so high.
and probably. all tn ngs considered. nee
essarily so. as to amount to confiscate of
goods transported. in many cases and
when not so bad as that. they are still
so high as 10 leave little profit to produ-
GERS and shippers and to augment un
necessaril the cost to consumers.
r Conditions as above stated exist in the
Lower Rio Grande Vale. cheap trans
'portat on. obtainahlc by water is now
and will continue to be absolutely neces-
sary. n4i.4tH I9llnt efhh'
Being Il member of the Executive
board of the Interstate Inland Water
way League Of Louisiana and Texas. also
chairman of Waterway for Brazos San
tiago and representing Brownsville and
the Lower Rio Grande Valley, / des. re
TO report to YOU and discuss first the i'm
portancc of this IntercOastaI Inland
waterway which in the short period of
six or eight years more will connect the
waters of the great lakes with the Gulf
of Mexico. va New Orleans, via Sabine
via Galveston. via Brazos river. via
Aransas Pass and ultimately via BrazOs
Santiago.
We have at present two hundred mi es
of this inland canal II Texas nayigabc
from Galveston to Corpus Christi.
This two hundred miles of completed
canal connect more than eight hundred
miles of ravigable streams in the costal
.p' ain and afford water transportation to
hundreds Of towns.
The formal fitting celebration at which
| had the honor and the pleasure to rep
resent YOU. opened and this two hundred
miles of projected waterway was dedi-
Gated to the traffic of Texas coast cOun-
v try
The next link of the IntercOastal canal
will be from Galveston to Sabine
H The annual meeting Of the Louisiana
and Texas League. will be he'd nj Or
ange, Texas. October 16. II. Is of this
year All being favorable in the next
two to four years this inland water
way will be navigabIe from Sabine to
Corpus Christi in Texas.
The cost of the canal from Galveston
to Corpus Christi is approximate y
"5G4OO0: the cost Of the Sabine to Gal
weston division will be S640.0O0 With
this completed it VII leave the link from
Corpus Bay to Baf1in bay. from Baffir
bay to the Arroyo and from the Arroyo
70 Isabel in Laguna Madrc a distance
Of 139 miles which will cost $717 262, as
per report of L. S. A. engineers.
1t is impossible to eXaggerate the IN
portance Of this Improvement when com
pletcd. This interstate inland intercoas
tai canal when completed. will directl,
benefit over half of our population
and indirectly benefit the whc,e.
There is a universal demand for rate
regulation on all our railroads, and i
is the general conviction that the i'm
provcmcnt of our waterways from th'
lakes to the gulf is the cheapest, quick
est and best way to forever settle til,
iquestion of cheap rates.
When completed it will be the strong
est section that could be written into on