. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ip channels through the barsat the mouths of the South-west Pass. Contractors began work, but unless they labored incessantly, they could notkeep the channels open; and they retired discomfited. The plan of dragging har-rows and scrapers seaward along the bottom of the channel v/as adopted, thusaiding the river-flood to carry the stirred-up m
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . ip channels through the barsat the mouths of the South-west Pass. Contractors began work, but unless they labored incessantly, they could notkeep the channels open; and they retired discomfited. The plan of dragging har-rows and scrapers seaward along the bottom of the channel v/as adopted, thusaiding the river-flood to carry the stirred-up matter to deep water; and a depthof eighteen feet was maintained upon the bar for one year at a cost of $60, efforts, in 1866 and 1867, were equally costly and of small avail; and in 1868, the Essay ons, a steamdredge-boat, constructed bythe AtlanticWorks, of Boston,was employed upon the barat Pass a IOutre. The planof this boat, which had beenrecommended by GeneralMcAllister, was a powerfulsteamer with a cutting pro-peller, which could be loweredinto the surface of the mud,where its rapid revolutionswould effect the necessarystirring-up. So far as herdraught permits, the « iPa^L75j ous has bccu a complete. THE BALIZE- •PILOT TOWN. 75 success; and another steamer, whose cutting propeller c:in work at greater cleptlj,and which has been named McAllister, is now engaged upon the work. Themain labor with these new boats has been done at the South-west Pass, whichhas become the principal entrance to the Mississippi, and there the United StatesGovernment is erecting a light-house on iron piles, as the marshes offer but aninsecure foundation. The improvements at the rivers mouth, like those inthe Red River, Tones Bayou, the Tangipahoa River, the harbor ot Galveston,and the Mississippi forts, as well as those on the lakes in the rear of New Orleans, are all under the direction ofMajor C. N. Howell, of theEngineer Department. Passa rOutre is g
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