Show GREAT IM PIE E OF NOW NOt DONE Jetties at Mouth of Southwest Pass P of MIssIssIppI Arc Are COST SIX sI MILLION MILLON DOLLARS AIT nl Dozen n Sintee Il rl tr And Are 16 io liiri J at o o Kiwi 1 In II UH II Word f I IN New N Dee Dec M flOne One of 01 th vr tM t channel e mal undertakIng hi i tit lb U Jel of o American merican river r Im ins 11 will wiD to be brought I nearly 7 to 10 toto completion to h thie t sh k when 1 the theM Jetties j M at a th tl the mouth month ti vt e e th t the southwest peer oT of o the t X rl Ii river w are r n nT Those ThoM T Jetties jt a sr 1 eta dredging be between tween them theat tle to Ia led will viii 11 give cf th th the on one of 01 th Ute the t barbers harborn In the th world worl by b y o to the t arcens a nf of If th the tho largest larrest lat l a oat the 10 and ando 1 o toot foot fo depths of o th U the lower Ml river The Te barber thus th mad I a ble bl ha h nv water connections connection with wih at least lean It a n ii the a and an It I Its tributaries the Ohio Ohto Ohi Missouri jj A and R Red riv nw river Iy er ef era About Abot Alt I I I being spent on o this Improvement by the United Slates charge ch government which wb has the work In Inch BEUM POUR FOUR PUR TEARS AGO AGO The Te new Jetties jU were begun b un tour four tr year fara ago Thy They are a on a larger larr He meale and alid more nor q substantial than the famous fm Jetties at the ppl south uth uthan pa pair i ian an outlet which tot for fr over eer er 10 30 a years year yala ha has I been the lb river rivers erlEI entrance They Ty art are re nearly parallel JUlI wal one about abut three and ant the U other about abut four tour fourmile I oilier mile mi long lying over vr vet half hal a mile mi apart and built buit In 1 th shoal hol water at atthe atthe the juncture of the th pass with the t gulf pit of Mexico Ico Their purpose a I II iii to confine and thus thu accelerate rt the rivers river current across aroM a mud bar br bout about aut three miles mile mi broad so 1 as au to t protect a channel at least leut 1000 10 test fet wide J with Ith a minimum depth of M feet fHI This swift Ift current which they the have produced aided Idl by dredging even Wn before hron pud their tell completion ha a a r and no se S U an has already made i i to H feet of water m In j some Ime a place where pi the Ih beginning of or th Ut the work to Ui tb depth was waa w but bt little tittle littleover over a mans mana head bead b TB 1 o make ak the tie cal uni uniform form contract depth there la Ii I still tl v veral for eral esal spot 10 feet of mud to be b erl rt o removed It Ii to Ia expected that the th high highwater I pt Ut water due within WI a jew few w week will wi upend peed the re mud mi deposits tp out ot to 10 toM aped M eon by b the be of o urt J summer nATU Probably few era ver vr have MV tvs hem been b constructed fw under II or ul than Ihan wr wets w th these Jetties They f inn are mad mads 1 ot of willow stove atop and an con concrete iee Although 11 in seine P they sy 7 ar are not Qi ai l felt feat deep and ad although their ther greatt great greatest est I at t fM depth Ith d I barely Is n feet fet they p have hf coat cott Every materiel material I entering Ct into their construction ha has been brought it 1 distances Itan of 10 to t MO mil mU miles The TIle t Mets j have no n o foundation but bul rely rf rI for kWe upon their broad bates b be being bing rpm 10 1 to 10 11 feet tet wide w at the U bottom tm In ID contrast to this great gat width of base bl the ti concrete cupping pip which forms form for the th top of ot the and which I the work receiving It I finishing touches touch Ida U week weak wa I is hut but H a few feet wide The Th Tb cap cp I ping I ii a ea wan wail ei H rest leet non aim is th pilS only li portion of the 11 Jetties not nb sub tb U me l pl The Te Th wall wal weighs 11 between two 1 and three tons tO tier per pr linear tot foot not |