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perfect drainage of this entire district, a levee must be built along 

 Taylors and Hillebrant Bayous, and pumps installed at the mouth 

 of Rodair Bayou. District No. 14 surrounds but does not include 

 about 3,200 acres which a company proposes to drain independently. 

 This tract might be included in district No. 14 without materially 

 affecting the plans presented in this report. The south end of this 

 district is very low and at times water will have to be pumped into 

 Taylors Bayou, at the mouth of Alligator Bayou. It will not be nec- 

 essary to construct levees to protect tliis area because the embank- 

 ments of the Kansas City Southern Railroad and the Dallas and Sa- 

 bine branch of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad will afford ample 

 protection against backwater. The drainage from the whole of 

 district No. 16 should be pumped into the sliip canal at the mouth 

 of Blacks Bayou. A levee must be constructed along the Neches 

 River and the ship canal to protect the low land. 



If found more convenient for the purpose of organization, district 

 No. 9 may be divided into two districts of equal size, the canal con- 

 necting the Neches River with the McFaddin irrigation pumping 

 plant at the narrowest part of the marsh being the dividing line. 

 However, such a division would require the construction of an addi- 

 tional drainage pumping plant, with consequent increase in the cost 

 per acre for the reclamation. It will be possible also to divide dis- 

 trict No. 16 into two districts, the river marsh being one and the 

 remainder of the land being the other. The bluff v/hich forms the 

 south boundary of the marsh becomes less marked as Sabine Lake 

 is approached untU it disappears entirely at a point about 1 mile 

 from the lake. This would necessitate the construction of a levee 

 from the end of the bluff to the lake and two pumpmg plants instead 

 of one, thus increasing the cost of reclamation in each district. 



South of Taylors Bayou the division of the land into pumping units 

 is more or less arbitrary. At the present time there are no data at 

 hand for determining whether one size of district on such land is 

 more economical than another. In Louisiana there are districts of 

 much greater size than the largest here recommended and others 

 much smaller than the smallest here planned. Districts Nos. 18 and 

 19 may be combined into one district if more convenient, which would 

 require changing the location of pumping plant of No. 18 and revising 

 the ditch grades. Districts Nos. 21 and 24 can be combined or sepa- 

 rated into smaller districts by rearranging the ditches and relocating 

 the pumping plants. Districts Nos. 26 and 27, also, may be combined 

 into one large district or separated into several smaller ones. Dis- 

 tricts Nos. 29 and 30 may be divided into a number of smaller dis- 

 tricts, but it would be impracticable to combine them into a large-one 

 on account of their shapes and relative location. 



