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The levee system on the Mississippi
River from Cairo to the Gulf of Mex
ico wus Intended to protect tho culti
vated larifts adjacent to the river.
This system has resulted in building
up the bed of the river from year to
year by reason of the fact that all of
the tributary streams running into
the Mississippi River have greater
velocity, and consequeutly sediment
brought into the main river, whose
current is slower, is deposited in the
river between Cairo and the Gulf.
This is the main cause of the flood line
going higher each year with a given
rainfall.
Now, the most practical and cheap
est remedy for thl3 is to make a
shorter outlet to the sea for this vast
volume of silt-bearing water, and this
outlet is via the Alchufalaya River,
the source of which is near the mouth
of the Red River where it empties
into the Mississippi. The Atehafaluya
River runs straight to the tidewater
of the Gulf, a distance of about 100
miles, whereas, via the Mississippi
River , the distance from the mouth
of the Red River to the Gulf is 300
miles. The fall of the Mississippi
River from the mouth of tho lied
River to the Gulf Is about one-tenth
of a foot per mile; of the Atehafaluya
about three-tenths of a foot to the
mile.
The increase in velocity from the
mouth of the Rod River to the Gulf via
the Atchafalaya would probably lower
the grade line of high water to two
tenths of a foot per mile, which would
reduce ihe high-water line for thu
point (mouth of Red River), 20 feet
or more. This reduction in high water
mark would probably extend as far
north as Memphis or even Cairo; thus
it can bo seen that the levee as now
built from Memphis to the Gulf would
bo of ample height and strength to
give safety to the adjacent country
for probably a hundred years or more.
Would this improvement leave New
Orleans an Inland city? Nc. For the
slowing down of the velocity ol the
water in the Mississippi from the
mouth of the Red River to the Gulf
v.a the old channels would result in ull
the sediment being carried to sea via
the Atchafalaya, leaving the old chan
nel a dear-water canal, which could
b • maintained at all times by u little
dredging such us is necessary now at
the jetties. The railroads entering
New Orleans could then bridge the
Mississippi River there and would
profit in the long run by obviating the
flooding of their tracks.
The jetties at the mouth of the Mis
sissippi could be dredged to a depth
of 4u lu 5u feet and remain so, for no
•sediment would be going out that way
to fill them up. The high-water line
at New Orleans would hardly exceed
10 feet above low water.
The low water line at New Orleans
lining only 1 ft. above sea level, with
a depth of 50 to 00 feet of water, it
can be seen that not only would New
Orleans be secure from floods in tho. j
future but that tho largest vessels In
the world could enter Its harbor.
The Mississippi river from tho jot- |
lies to the mouth of tho Red river,
would be a canal, navigable at all
times, with a little dredging, perhaps,
between Baton Rouge and the Red
river; and all that rich country on
ci'her side of tho river from the month ,
of the Red river to the gulf would be
absolutely secure from floods. '
ALASKA
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tFrora Our Exchanges.)
Arthur Zimmerman, who has spent
the past season rocking out gold on
the upper Susitna, arived in Anohor
ago recently with 16 ounces of gold.
He made better than $6 per day for
his season’s work.
During the recent high water in
Lowell creek, at Seward, the stream
over flowed ttie new channel which
had been constructed at a cost of
$800 to the city, and is now running
in its old channel.
George VV. Evans, consulting engi
neer for the bureau of mines, arrivea
in Fairbanks recently and left there
to inspect the Nenana coal Helds for
private parties who may take a lease
on a portion of the land.
All the canneries at Shignik have
closed down for the season, but the
cannery at Larsen bay is still oper
ating. This cannery had one haul
of 135 red salmon during the season,
and another haul of 250,000 hump
backs.
The Alaska Engineering Commis
sion recently awarded contracts to
Seward merchants for supplies aggre
gating about $30,000. Brown and
Hawkins got the grocery order, and
the butter .meats and other packer’s
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