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1661-2 Seaport --r .___ -•.n...�. , • . • . February ,9th, 3.92 3. - •,. / • • ' .- i . P, . James P. Cox, . . 'Avenue, ' -'Meridian / j • - flTBeoth, a. ' • Subject:' Deep water for.Mani_�i and bii—mi B©aah. o . Lly dear Governors • About fifteen-or eighteen years ago, the rlavler Last Coast . Railway Company, through 2.r. Flagler, si,zcceeded. in'co--operating with the ' •-- Government to cut a channel throe-Th from iiia.mi to the sea.• she gevernment -• I per armed their part of the r?orlc un to a certain point, but Jr. la ler • ' , • beta: e• discoura-ed with liti t.tion- in Liini over the Ownership of the `� ,. v",-" ,•water` front property there which he thought he rrn•od. :As the litiCntion _ ‘ _ - draped, 147. Fla;;ler decidod to extend the�road to: Key '',est and .v ke a. harbor•there., , •' , • • • ...Nothing more was done' antiN a fog-years.ago, when the 4overnmsnt ' :t • : t1ie County Coumissioner3 •of':.Tian. co-operate — the Govern;ont spending 2\ti approximately one million dollars on jetties and the digging of the Present 1 A 1 , - /' ha mlel, which is to a, depth of 'twenty-feet, the County Co'�ni ssioners , . .�3 ' � ,,""building' `builo&ng the Causeway and connecting their channel, .:pith the Govoru rant • • • •t .,ohanrel. . . , , • ' -, `, , The difficulty with the_present harbor is`that• it ie only three . .hunired feet wide t;hrtiijh the Government Cut,_with,r000k banks on each side. • - The three hundred foot channel -ends abruptly with one hundred and twenty • _ • F five foot channel, which is the County part of the channel, with solid rook • . • ' ,,' corners ending the 99 ne hundred acid twenty five foot c1immel from the Gov- . h eriment channel. . IIavigation through the one hundred-and twenty five foot' , ' . �' N, c1-annel is necessarily restricted to certain tide conditions, especially • ; with floats that have forty five or fifty foot , ' " •• • - - , • The City of " ani. is determined, through their Chamber of Comoroo, • to.f a:tend' the deep water project to 'the City`of. Liiar4, instead of creating • • • their harbor nearest the ocean where it belongs,t and saving several million . dollars in di`ging a channel across the Bay. • . , • . . -, s / f• ' • . - I have a'con plete brief giving estimates, costs, 'quantities and . :,the practical possi'aility 'of putting this -harbor on this side of the Bay, ' and a complete estimate of the cost it-would be to the Government to do • • • ' • \-i. :' • this work, giving t. enty-five foot of 'water. . • ' • This brief was submitted by George K. Slells,-Chief D.r.j.neor for ., ' • the Goethals Coripaay, bf New York. , . • ' , ' .• - •--- •- • - I .. . , _ .A million dollars ex ended -by the Qovor-nr ant, with seven hundred ' thousand dollars expended by-our corupary would give ,us, twenty-five feet of • • :.'water into this harbor, and wpuld give us throe' v4.,2,4feet of bulkhead "frontage with twenty-five feet of toter to the bullhead.- f / i ` /5 I r e fro;. J.P.C. . . In as much as most passenger ships, large oil trad:'rs, said frei ;esters cannot now enter this harbor, ,all -of these s=>fps would be able to enter the ]arbor on twenty-five feet, or at least; most all of them mould be able to enter with twenty five foot of water. ' We are willing at any time to co-orerate :with the Government / • • ped Guarantee a,2expenditure of seven hundred and fifty.thousan3. dollars at the same time they co�amence their work of =king in , twenty five 'feet of later through the c amel. ' I can at any time, if uec©.:so.ry, submit co leto brief by rir, 7.ells, of the Goeti. .ls Com any. It is our intention to i V3 the Geetlr.Lls, Company represent 1 us as our tt.ncineer3, .. Very truly yours, • • CGF-2,20 • r f i'. • a �'t 1 ",4 x': 3r S. t.I'. r S3 +, f"y,,4 1 ' • r •Vit. 4 ,1- kI `4�- ''.‘::!..,',:•:,:,' ) •r -Y.' -F S- 't• -•;%'-. J� 'J 1, f!,1, ♦ ' l'.. 1. � -;•,...-1.".::'!. � u, � � {y�"� � i1 1 i ..� .'ate• � � ' J • � . ;.a'