Transportation companies.

Remarks.

TABLE 8.-NAMES, LOCALITIES, NAVIGABLE LENGTHS, DEPTHS AT LOW WATER, ETC., OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS, ETC.-Continued. (b) Rivers tributary to Gulf of Mexico (exclusive of the Mississippi and its tributaries)-Continued.

C.R. Cummings Export Co.
Direct Navigation Co.

Improvements are projected which
will provide six foot navigation
from Dallas to the mouth by means
of six locks and dams in Section 1,
and one lock and dam in Section 2.
No commerce of any importance at
present.

Boats sometimes go, at high water,
to Port Sullivan, 339 miles from the
mouth.

These streams form part of the water-
way connecting Houston with deep
water in Galveston Bay. The other
links are the Galveston Ship Canal
and the Morgan Canal. Channel to
be 25 feet deep and from 100 to 150
feet wide on the bottom.

a See footnote b on page 93.

(a)

(a)

Below New Orleans: Bara-
taría Canning Co., Spi-
cuzza Bros. Transporta-
tion Co., Lower Coast
Packet Co., Christie &
Lowe, Doullut Mail Line,
G. W. Dunbars' Sons.

New Orleans to Vicksburg: |
Jno. Barrett & Son, Car-
ter Packet Co., Comeaux-
Le Blanc Packet Co., Gem
Packet Co., C. Jutte & Co.
(Peoples Coal Co.), Mo-
nongahela River Consoli-

dated Coal and Coke Co.,
Huntington and St. Louis
Towboat Co., Natchez
and Vicksburg Packet

The Mississippi River Commission,
created by act of Congress, June 28,
1879, is in charge of the Mississippi
River improvements from the Head
of Passes to Cape Girardeau.
New Orleans is situated on the east
bank of the Mississippi River 95.5
miles from the end of the jetties, and
is the principal seaport of the Gulf
of Mexico. It is the converging
point for the commerce of the entire
river system of the Mississippi Val-
ley, and occupies an important posi-
tion in the export trade of the coun-
try. While its lines of railroad have
added much to the general com-
merce of the city, the river traffic
holds a prominent place. New Or-
leans probably has a greater number
of steamboats and other river craft
plying between that city and other
points than any other town on the
western rivers. In addition to the
regular packets and other vessels of
the various transportation com-
panies and coal fleets, there are
numerous steamers engaged in the
local trade.
Prior to 1876 Vicksburg possessed the
most commanding site and the fin-
est harbor on the Mississippi River.
There was deep water along the city
front and the entire width of the
river was available for steamboats
at all stages, with not less than a
depth of 25 feet in any part of the
harbor. The "cut-off" of April 27,
1876, and subsequent shoaling of the
old channel leading from river to the

b The Mississippi River Commission endeavors to maintain a channel with a least depth of 9 feet at low water and 250 feet wide between St. Louis and New Orleans.

TABLE 8.-NAMES, LOCALITIES, NAVIGABLE LENGTHS, DEPTHS AT LOW WATER, ETC., OF NAVIGABLE STREAMS, ETC.-Continued. (c) Mississippi River and its tributaries-Continued.