It is estimated that a road through the marshes strong enough to withstand any gulf storm and to bear the weight of artillery would cost from $300,000 to $400,000 a mile, including the necessary bridges. This would make the cost of the twenty miles to the Rigolets, one of the outlets of Lake Ponchartrain, approximately $8,000,000. It would necessarily be of special construction and so heavy as to require a minimum of repair.
Construction of the marsh road would provide New Orleans with a highway to the north and east. The only way of entering the city now, if motorists do not drive west to Baton Rouge and from there to New Orleans, to ferry across Lake Ponchartrain, water journey requiring at least two hours by the shortest route.
Construction of the Florida section of the Spanish trail is well underway and that state, with federal, state, and county funds, now is building a broad, heavy concrete highway from Jacksonville to Pensacola, a distance more than 375 miles. The highway will parallel the Seaboard Air Line railway from Jacksonville to River Junction and the Louisville & Nashville from River Junction to Pensacola.
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