16 BULLETIN 193^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGPJCULTUEE. 
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 this area because the embank- 
ments of the Kansas City Southern Railroad and the Dallas and Sa- 
bine branch of the Texas & New Orleans Raih'oad 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 v/ould 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 which forms the 
south boundary of the marsh becomes less marked as Sabine Lake 
is approached until 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 pumping 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 combmed 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 unpracticable to combine them into a large one 
on account of their shapes and relative location. 
