The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-13
IN IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION.

Major Edward Fl. Schulz, United
| States engineer having charge OF thu
works and projects of the fedora
government in connection with main
I tanning and improving the navigabls
streams of considerable part Of
Louisiana, has issued a notice tina
should be read and needed by every
| body interested in the removal Of the
dam and the substitution of a loci
at the head of Bayou Lafourche.
The notice, which appears galse-
where in today's Chief, recites thai by
pct of March 4, 1915, congress, VI
| fhorized and directed preliminary
examination of Bayou Lafourcheaafof
lock at the head, with a view to as
certaining whether such lock, either
in connection with new dam or
with the dam built by the local levee
boards, is necessary for navigation
on said bayou, and if so, what part
of the cost, if any, should be borne
by the United States; that this ex-
animation has been assigned to the
engineers Office of which Major
Schulz is in charge, and that, in or
der to submit to the department a
full and complete report, pubic
hearing will be held in the office OF
the Lafourche levee board at Donald
sonville on Tuesday, November 23,
1915, at 1890 o'clock a. m.
The purpose of the hearing IS
stated to be the gathering of inform
alton as to the necessity for lock
for the navigation of the bayou, and
as to what part, if any, of the cost
of such lock should be borne by
the United States.
Major Schulz suggests that, mas
much as all the papers will be lad
before the secretary OF war for his
decision, it will be advisable to have
all statements submitted IN writing
and in duplicate, covering the follow
ing points:
/. AS to the location of the lock
Whether in the present bayou or
adjacent thereto.
2. An accurate and complete
statement of the present tonnage OF
the stream, giving it's character and
value and between what points on
the bayou; also what part Of the pres
emit and prospective commerce would
move through the lock and between
what points; also statement OF the
commerce from the bayou to the
river befote the dam was placed.
3. A statement as to the reasons
and necessity on account of which 1t
is considered that the United States
should pay part of the construction,
and what proportion.
1t will be apparent at glance
that this hearing is likely to have
great weight in determining whether
and to what extent the federal gov
eminent will come to the relief of
the levee boards and tfy people of
the Lafourche and Atchafalaya levee
districts in building the lock which
is necessary to the restoration of the
former status Of Bayou Lafourche as
a navigable continent OF the Mlssls-
sippi river.
There should be no delay, there
fore, in the preparation of written
statements and evidence along the
lines indicated by Major Schulz, SO
as to have as strong a case as pos
sible ready for presentation to that
officer on the 23rd instant. 1t is de-
sirable also that representative c1ti-
zens from the different localities con-
cerned in the rehabilitation of the
bayou should be on hand to aid In
furnishing any information or argu-
ments that may besoverlooked in the
written documents or that may con-
duce to render the claim of the peo-
pie for federal aid clearer and
stEQ g.el.