﻿Ill] 
  Shreveport 
  Area: 
  The 
  Raft 
  173 
  

  

  third 
  of 
  its 
  former 
  size. 
  Near 
  Shreveport, 
  Swan 
  lake 
  is 
  com- 
  

   pletely 
  destroyed. 
  

  

  Cross 
  bayou 
  discharge. 
  — 
  After 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  the 
  raft 
  and 
  the 
  

   formation 
  of 
  the 
  second 
  raft, 
  which 
  forced 
  nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  

   the 
  river 
  current 
  to 
  flow 
  through 
  the 
  lakes, 
  the 
  water 
  seeking 
  

   the 
  shortest 
  channel 
  through 
  the 
  bottoms 
  cut 
  the 
  channel 
  known 
  

   as 
  ' 
  ' 
  The 
  Pass 
  ' 
  ' 
  between 
  Sodo 
  and 
  Ferry 
  lakes 
  ; 
  and 
  nearly 
  all 
  

   the 
  water 
  returned 
  to 
  the 
  river 
  through 
  Cross 
  bayou. 
  Before 
  

   the 
  closing 
  of 
  the 
  outlet 
  bayous, 
  even 
  after 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  the 
  

   raft, 
  the 
  discharge 
  of 
  Cross 
  bayou 
  in 
  medium 
  and 
  high 
  stages 
  of 
  

   water 
  was 
  always 
  greater 
  than 
  either 
  Twelve 
  Mile 
  bayou 
  or 
  

   Upper 
  Red 
  river. 
  

  

  Changes 
  Resulting 
  from 
  a 
  Combination 
  of 
  Causes 
  

  

  Reversal 
  of 
  drainage 
  systems. 
  — 
  The 
  great 
  discharge 
  through 
  

   Cross 
  bayou, 
  while 
  the 
  river 
  about 
  Hurricane 
  bluff 
  was 
  clogged 
  

   with 
  raft 
  material, 
  resulted 
  in 
  an 
  upstream 
  current 
  at 
  times 
  as 
  

   high 
  as 
  Benoit's 
  bayou*. 
  Fuller 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  upstream 
  cur- 
  

   rent 
  ran 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  "half 
  the 
  distance 
  between 
  Shreveport 
  and 
  

   Red 
  bayou, 
  " 
  or 
  as 
  far 
  asWillow 
  chute. 
  Woodruff 
  questions 
  this.f 
  

  

  lyinnard's 
  early 
  account, 
  however, 
  agrees 
  with 
  Fuller. 
  He 
  

   says 
  : 
  ' 
  'During 
  the 
  freshets 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  (of 
  this 
  water) 
  sweeps 
  

   directly 
  across 
  the 
  channel 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  and 
  continues 
  eastward 
  

   to 
  the 
  Bodcau 
  lake 
  ; 
  a 
  portion 
  ascends 
  the 
  channel 
  to 
  Benoit's, 
  

   or 
  Williams' 
  bayou, 
  or 
  the 
  Willow 
  chute 
  and 
  the 
  remainder 
  

   passes 
  down 
  the 
  channel. 
  J 
  

  

  The 
  cutting 
  of 
  Sewell's 
  canal 
  has 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  reversal 
  of 
  

   the 
  drainage 
  for 
  about 
  a 
  mile 
  down 
  the 
  bayou. 
  A 
  new 
  channel 
  

   was 
  made 
  across 
  the 
  old 
  Henderson 
  fields 
  between 
  1864 
  and 
  1871 
  

   and 
  water 
  flowed 
  from 
  Dooley's 
  lake 
  through 
  it 
  and 
  Old 
  Red 
  

   bayou 
  to 
  Sewell's 
  canal. 
  § 
  

  

  A 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  bayous 
  and 
  canals 
  which 
  were 
  outlets 
  during 
  

   the 
  raft 
  periods 
  have, 
  since 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  the 
  raft, 
  became 
  inlets. 
  

   This 
  is 
  true 
  of 
  Alban's 
  canals 
  and 
  Poston's 
  bayou. 
  

  

  * 
  Long. 
  27th 
  Cong., 
  ist 
  Sess., 
  Senate 
  Doc, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  No. 
  64, 
  pp. 
  9-10. 
  

   f 
  33d 
  Cong., 
  2d 
  Sess., 
  Senate 
  Ex. 
  Doc, 
  vol. 
  7, 
  No. 
  62. 
  

   X 
  28th 
  Cong., 
  2d 
  Sess., 
  Senate 
  Doc, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  No. 
  i, 
  p. 
  289, 
  1845. 
  

   ^ 
  An. 
  Rep. 
  Chief 
  of 
  Eng. 
  for 
  1873, 
  p. 
  658. 
  

  

  