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Show Tmk triumph of art over natural obstacles is illustrated by tho success ot Gapt. James B. Ead's jetty system which hag been recently applied to the shallow channel of the south pass of tho Mississippi, below New Orleans. Or-leans. Tho jetties ai'.i in tho nhnpo of mallresHCH sunk iu tho bed of the river, which confine tho current, forcing it to act as a dredge, removing remov-ing the earthy depends into tbo gulf at tho estimated ralo uf U,il0i),0l0 cubic feet a day. Caiit. Ends thinkH thnro is no doubt that the jetties have Rulliciout power lo confine thn rushing rush-ing water sufficiently to clear out a pormauent depth in the chanuol adequate ade-quate to tho largest oecan going ships. Tho valuo of Huh experiment, experi-ment, if fully succwHsful, to Ihn commercial com-mercial and agricultural interests of tho Mississippi valley is beyond compulation. |