Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-03-02
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BRACES Santiago Pass. with jetty
protection, at an estimated cost OF
81, 358, 900, with $50, 900 annually for
maintenance: for a channel % feet
deep and 100 feet wide from the
Pass to a point on the westerly side
OF Long Island, at an estimated cost
Of 100000, with $40 1000 annually
for maintenance: for a channel rs
feet deep and 100 feet wide from
the end OF the Brazos Santiago
Pass-Long Island channel TO and
including a turning basin 500 feet
square at Point Isabel. az an es-
timated cost Of S250.000. with S10.-
600 annually for maintenance; and
for a channel IS feet deep and 100
feet wide from the end OF BrazoS
Santiago PaSs-Long Island channel
to and including a turning basin
1000 feet square in the vicinity of
Brownsville. at an estimated cost
OF 81 y975.000, with Sal. 900 ANNUALLY
for maintenance: or a total eStimat-
ed cost of "a, 783, 900, with Si50.000
annually for maintenance, subject
to the provisions that local inter-
estS shall donate to the United
States the north end Of Brazos Is
land from a due east and west line
1000 feet south OF the old Coast
guard station, and the south end OF
Padre Island from a due east and
west line 500 feet north OF the
quarantine station, and give assur-
ances satisfactory TO the chief Of
engineers ard the secretary OF war.
that suitable terminal facilities will
be made available. and provided fur
Their that on work shall be under
taken on the channel TO Browns
vile until the sum OF S~2,lT5.000 has
been contributed to the cost OF the
project and necessary r~ights-of-way
and spoil disposal areas have been
furnished free Of cost to the United
States. and that no work shall be
undertaken on the channel TO Point
Isabel until the sum Of s450,000 has
been contributed to the cost OF the
project ands necessary rights-of-
way and spoil disposal areas have
been furnished free OF cost to the
United States, and provided further
that no work shall be undertaken
on any part OF the project unit To-
cal interests shall have contributed
either or both Of the sums afore-
said.
Project Approved
ION January "a. Major General
Lytle Brown. chief of army engi-
neers. concurred IN and approved n
recommendations Of the board OF
Army engineers Is set out above,
following which the house COM
mittee on Rivers and Harbors ap-
proved the Brownsville Point Isabel
project as herein above outlined.
and. therefore, we are now assured
that our project will be written in
TO the Omnibus bill. and the APP
preparation for the full amount Will
be available to us when we meet
the government requirements. pro-
vided, OF course. the rivers and
hrabors appropriation bill is passed
by this congress.
1T will he observed that the
government requirements OF cash
alone amount to si75.000 more than
our present authorized two million
dollar bond issue. In addition TO
that, ii is necessary that we acquire
and pay for approximately two
hundred and twenty acres on the
north end OF Rrazos Island and one
hundred and seventy acres at the
south end az Padre Island. and a
strip Of land from what is known
as Long Island at the edge of the
Bay to a point within approximate
ly four miles Of Brownsville.
Half Mile Sought
"In the opinion OF the port COM
m~issioners. based ON strenuous e c
concentrations OF engineers, this
strip should be cne-half mile In