Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . JAMBS BDOHANAN EADS. EABS—EAGLE the use of jetties. He reasoned that if in the Gulf. Five and a half million cubic the banks of the passage through the bar yards of earth had been removed, mainly could be extended, not gradually, but by the action of the strong current immediately, into the deep water of the created by the jetty. In the construc-. PORT BASS, SOUTH PASS OP THE MISSISSIPPI BIVEB. Gulf some 2 miles or more, it wouldproduce force enough to excavate achannel the whole
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . JAMBS BDOHANAN EADS. EABS—EAGLE the use of jetties. He reasoned that if in the Gulf. Five and a half million cubic the banks of the passage through the bar yards of earth had been removed, mainly could be extended, not gradually, but by the action of the strong current immediately, into the deep water of the created by the jetty. In the construc-. PORT BASS, SOUTH PASS OP THE MISSISSIPPI BIVEB. Gulf some 2 miles or more, it wouldproduce force enough to excavate achannel the whole length of the project he undertook to carry outat his own expense, agreeing not to re-ceive compensation for the work until itwas completed; and the truth of his rea-soning was proved by the results. Inthe winter of 1874-75 he laid his plan be-fore Congress, and in March, 1875, a billwas passed empowering him to put itinto execution. The work was begun inJune, 1875. The jetties were laid outparallel with the current of the river,and at right angles with the Gulf cur-rent, extending with a slight curve 214miles out from the mouth of the were first driven in to mark thepath of the jetties; then willows fastenedtogether in enormous mattresses weresunk, and these filled in with stones andgravel. This work was done on theSouth Pass, the narrowest of the threechannels of the Mississippi delta. Cap-tain Eads wished to try his experimenton
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