Morehead City, May 15—Gay yachts plying the sea between winter and summer resorts and sedate fishing smacks indigenous to the waters of Eastern North Carolina will probably find next summer a vastly changed scene as they drop anchor in Morehead Harbor, gateway between the Inland waterway and the open Atlantic.
Government engineers’ plans calling for deepening the Bogue Sound channel to 12 feet and the construction of a 400-foot turning basin have already been presented to Mayor Luther Hamilton by assistant district engineer Paterson of the Wilmington office, and steps are now being taken to expedite their approval by the war department and secure the necessary appropriations for the work in the rivers and harbors allotment of the next congressional session.
According to Mr. Paterson it may be possible to unravel all the usual governmental red tape and get giant 12-inch dredges into operation here by July of next year. In that event the project can be completed by the new year with favorable working conditions, the engineer estimated.
The need of a deep water channel and adequate turning basin has long been felt in Morehead City but with the recent heavy increase in traffic through the inland waterway and the consequent creation of this city as a kind of port of call at the southern terminus of that passage by hundreds of vessels desiring to take on supplies or lay in for a breathing spell before taking to the open sea, it has becoming imperative and has focused the attention to the government on the situation.
The new 12-foot channel will extend up tenth street and will connect with the 12-foot inland waterway affording deep water passage to the city docks and through the inlet to the Atlantic.
From page 5 of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, May 16, 1926
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