DRAINAGE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS. 15 
drainage district. However, a district of this size is not organized 
without consi(Un-able (Uniculty and dehiy; therefore the large basin 
has been divided into smaller units, each independent of the others 
except for the cooperation necessary to improve the main water- 
course. It may possibly bo expedient to form one large organiza- 
tion embracing the smaller districts just to enlarge Taylors Bayou. 
All of the land drained into Hillebrant Bayou is formed into one 
district, No. 10. None of the areas drained by Bayou Din, Willow 
Marsh, and Pivitot Bayou may properly be treated as a separate 
unit, because each is dependent upon the lower end of Hillebrant 
Bayou for outlet and should share in the cost of cleaning and enlarg- 
ing that bayou. All the land within the county limits that is drained 
by Taylors Bayou and the North Fork above their junction should 
have been included in district No. 11; but since a part of district 
No. 3, which already had been organized and had constructed 
ditches, is drained into the upper end of Taylors Bayou, and since a 
large area in Liberty County is drained into the North Fork by way 
of Pignut Gully, it is impracticable to form a perfect drainage unit 
in this instance. However, all of the land in that part of the county 
which is not included in district No. 3 is formed into a drainage dis- 
trict, and the main ditches are planned in the best possible way under 
the circumstances. Only part of district No. 20 can be drained into 
Taylors Bayou; the remainder must have an outlet eastward into 
Salt Bayou. Districts Nos. 25 and 28 have no outlets into existing 
watercourses; their drainage should be carried southward to the 
Intercoastal Canal. 
PUMPING DISTRICTS. 
That part of the county wliich can not be drained by gravity has 
been divided into convenient pumping units, and will be considered 
as districts Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 
27, 29, 30, 31, and 32. The marshes bordering on the Neches River 
were divided into such units that each would be entirely independent 
of all others, the bluff and the river front forming the complete 
boundaries of each. 
District No. 8 is a small area between Beaumont and the Neches 
River, southeast of the city. About half of the district is high land 
and the remainder is river marsh. Because the Neches River is 
being shortened by several cut-offs at this point, it is deemed best 
not to present plans for drainage at this time. The newly graded 
Mansfield Ferry road across the marsh forms an excellent levee be- 
tween this district and No. 9. Districts Nos. 13, 14, and 16 can be 
only partially drained by gravity; the south end of district No. 13 
is very low and subject to frequent overflow. In order to insure 
