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HE- 00274	''	OYSTER	R..F	AT	END	OF	1200	FOOT
WHARF AT LONG BEACH RUINED BY CREVASSE IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER 1888
Daily Herald - May 2, 1925 - p. 2
MISSISSIPPI RIVER SPILLWAY
Editor Herald:
Anent the discussion on turning the flood waters of the Mississippi River out through the Mississippi Sound, I invite attention to my own personal experience in this connection.
About the year 1887 at Long Beach I planted an oyster bed of considerable proportions, and for commercial purposes built a 1200-foot wharf, employed a telegraph operator at my own expense, and made other outlays.
I made shipments one year only when a crevasse in Mississippi River brought the muddy water into the Sound completely submerging the plant bed, and destroying the enterprise.
This is not theory, but facts which *h can be testified to by any oldtimer of forty years ago. I think the crevasse was in 1888.
JAMES THOMAS