DISCUSSION OF THE PAPER OF E.L. CORTHELL, M. Am. Soc. C.E. on THE SOUTH PASS JETTIES, BY JAMES B. EADS, M. Am. Soc. C.E. (Reviewing statements made to the U.S. Congress in 1885, respecting the JETTIES at SOUTH PASS and at GALVESTON, by General John Newton and Colonels Wm. E. Merrill and R.S. Mansfield, U.S. Engineers).
[NP: American Society of Civil Engineers], 1885. Black lettered grey paperwraps. 24 cm. 39, (1, blank), 5, 5 pp. Five charts, including one folding. Chipping to spine, browning to edges of wraps, else a very good copy. Paper read at a meeting of the society, May 6, 1885. Item #65044
According to an article printed by the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District [New Orleans: nd], Capt. James Eads, a civil engineer, inventor and shipbuilder from St. Louis set out to devise a jetty system to deepen and expand the branches of the Mississippi River emptying into the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans. In 1875, he began construction of the jetties and succeeded in "forcing the river to scour out a deeper channel, reaching a 26-foot-depth by late December 1876.... Eads' jetties revived the declining Port of New Orleans and allowed the entire Mississippi Valley to prosper." In this paper Eads defends himself against critics and discusses the merits of his system for constructing jetties to aid in the development of Galveston harbor.
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