The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-12-02

! maUS IadQe OF woven willow trees OF
Monday and tied them up to the
! bank. These mats measure $50 fee
long and 400 feet in width. 1t will
take about thirty of these mats t.
revet this point Each mat will be
towed and placed and weighted down
with rock to a fifteen-pound pres
sure to the square foot and sunk t(
the bottom of the river, sloping from
the bank at the present stage OF
water toward the center of the river
The mats will be sunk so as to lar
each other five or ten feet, and the
thirty mats will revet the bank 4,OOC
feet or more The work of shingline
or paving the bank to the depth of a
foot or more will then be done.
The Lafourche, another govern
ment towboat, appeared on the scene
Monday last, towing four barges
loaded with rock boulders to be used
on the job. This rock is quarried
near Little Rock Arkansas, trans
ported by rail to Ferriday, where it
is unloaded from the cars onto
barges in the river.
Engineer Douglas and his assist
ant, Mr.. Waddell, are actively in
charge of the work. They have en-
ployed some two hundred men, most
ly white, and are rushing the work
to completion. According to Mr..
Douglas it will take two and a half
months of favorable weather to COM
plete this revetment.
Twenty thousand dollars will be
expended on making Landslide en-
largement on the Grand Bay levee
and to strengthen it and prevent the
recurrence of the dangerous sand
boils. This work will be in charge of
another engineering department Of
the government and suction dredges
will be used to advantage. BY means
of these dredges dirt from the bat
ture will be thrown behind the levee
to fill the low place and long,
gradual slope will be made from the
top of the levee back several hund-
red yards.
Other Dangers
There are other dangers on the
Mississippi River than sand boils and
weak levees. 1t is pretty we'll estab-
lished that New Orleans is looking
toward letting others get the duck
ing if this can be accomplished.
Levees have been cut in the past, it
is asserted, and may be cut again.
One of these works accomplished
last year by the Atchafalaya Basin
Levee Protection Association was to
keep constant guard on the most
dangerous portion of the right bank
Of the River and make constant re-
ports to the constituted authorities
on any danger which came up. It is
hoped this organization will be main
tanned and strengthened for the
year 1917. The town Of Morgan City,
thru Mayor Shannon, was a member
of this Association last year, and it
is understood activities will soon be-
gin to revive the former association.
H. M. Gotten on Board
1t is suggested to Governor Pleas
ant that this section should be repre-
sented on the Atchafalaya Levee
Board, since this vicinity is in the
immediate path of any destruction
which break in the River might oc-
casion, and the name of Mr.. Herbert
M. Gotten has been recommended by
local citizens and by members of the
present board. Mr.. Gotten is fl
nancially interested in this
section owning considerable pro-
perty here and elsewhere, is Presi-
dent Of the First National Bank, and
would do credit to the Board. The
Governor could make no better Sc
lection than Mr.. Gotten for this
place.
It is understood DR.. King Of New
Iberia has resigned and his place will
likely be filled with resident of the
District. DR.. King is not resident Of
the District.