The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-01-24
SENTIMENT STRONG FOR LOCKS.
Unanimous Demand That Levee Boards Carry Out
Obligation to Remove Temporary Dam at
Head of Bayou Lafourche--I Improve
nent will Restore Commerce and
Better Sanitary Conditions.

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Better Sanits
: Assumption Police Jury Goes on
Record.
Our citizens throughout the parish
, will, we believe, approve the action
5 taken by the Assumption police jury
, at its last meeting when it indorsed
the course of Congressman Lewis
Morgan of the sixth district in the
matter of securing locks for Bayou
. Lafourche at Donaldsonville, and also
III its hearty approval of the Rams
dell-Humphreys bill.
Both these matters are Of vital i'm
portances and the police jury Of this
parish, realizing that they cannot be
, delayed if this section of Louisiana is
to reap the full measure Of its nat
ly on record in favor Of both PROPOSE
tions.
The building of locks, as everyone
who has given a thought to theamat-
ter knows, will mean tk@SarrySYg out
of the first intention Bters of
the intercoastak al Ing the
Rio Grande and Mi ii. The
first survey of tdge tdlsge So inland
waterway, made and aIprovss g the
United States engine ers, beg at
Brownsville, Texas, on the Rio
Grande, and ended at DonaldsoIDflle,
La on the Mississippi This inter
coastal canal is nearly completed to-
day, there being only short strip
between Calcasieu and Morgan City,
and from the latter pls.ee to New Or
leans to be dug, aid this route will
be settled at an early day.
Since the closing Of Bayou La
fourche, strong fight has been
made by the citizeaMAH MAHouma and
Loekport, and BIZ of canals
running between kwns and
| New Orleans, I'd United
| States goVernmeI Bt their
route for the inte anal, in
stead of the Original z surveyed
and recommended BY ngineers
years ago. Up to u when
ascension and Assul sent a
delegation to Orange. as, to at
tend the convention a terstate
Inland Waterway Leag ouma-
Lockport canal roaIe " having
everything it's way sst this sonpen-
ton the delegation p1 assumption
and Ascension pre- sIaims,
and by - - S sded
; organize 5 81 on
: of the InteTcSSzsAs way
t League that the - Verret, Can,
cienne Canal and Ba ou Lafourche
route be recognized by the United
I States government as a part of the
lDt ercoastal canal.
The police jury in adopting resolu,
tions indorsing the immediate build
ing of locks is working: in the right
| direction to the slring the inter
, coastal canal, sway viii
be one of the mmerc1a
, builders this seq seen
' Assumption Pio
Locking II che.
n That the confas which hal
! been arranged between Governor
h Hall and committees of the Atchaf
$ alaya and I.afourcha levee boards
a may evolve some financial plan un
!, der which Bayou Lafourche may
g again be made tributary of the
: Mississippi river is earnestly to bt
!, hoped.
n Sentiment in the section through
s which the bayou runs is practically
t unanimous, and the grounds pol
l. which the demand for the con
t,4 n So1 q r,lz
:. is based are uRak $50 g haa1s
J Bayou Lafou erly al
s outlet of the Boat
+ ran regularly 6a Crlean
r and points along The eam Il
V times of high water, however, ere
8 vases were of more Or less fre
y uuenu occurrence, and the crop an'
i other property losses were large.
8 Under acts of the legislature 0
s. 1900 and 1902, precedent to gran
J. of federal authority, the bayou wa
s finally damned in connection with
$ proposed system of locks, the pu1
+ pose of which was to maintain navi
h cation in the bayou while protectin
# it's rich lands from inundation. TIL
= i1ocks have, however, never bee
n built, and an important artery of con
+, merce has since been partially pu
it out Of commission.
The citizens in the territory affec1
!, ed have a right to ask the fulfil
r ment of the obligation resting on th
authorities to carry out the lock pre-
ject. The effect will be twofole
It will restore the commerce of tn
:, bayou and it will make for vast in
- provement in sanitary conditions.
- New Orleans has a particular il
~ ~ terest in the former condition. Th
~ Lafourche traverses one of th
= richest sugar and truck-groWing sex
y, tions of Louisiana Sooner or la
~ er, we take it, sugar will disappea
"a as an industry. When it doe
vi thero will be corresponding e.
IL pansion of the trucking industry; an
a a the farmers who live along the b;
~ ~ you are entitled to every faclllt
u that can be afforded them in quic
"" and cheap transportation TO the
IL 1narket.-New Orleans States, Jan. 2
- - Locks Endorsed.
1g The Chamber of Commerce, at i
n meeting held Wednesday night
of last week, wisely endorsed the e
in ceIlent work being done by the Do
IS. a1dsonvilIe Chamber Of Commerce
N, | word ipc11riuo tho aaTfv hT3if1ing aI