Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1912 — Port in the Ocean. [ARTICLE]

Port in the Ocean.

"When the harbor at Cape Lookout off the North Carolina coast Is com r pleted the means for which were provided by the last session of congress, Beaufort and that part of the Carolina coast will be the most important point on the South Atlantic coast,” said E. J. Rogers, a railroad man of Beaufort, at the Raleigh. "The work has already begun, surveys now being under way. This harbor when completed will give vessels a safe port practically in the ocean, Cape Lookout being about ten miles from the mainland. It will unquestionably be the most available harbor on the Atlantic coast. Beaufort has a harbor that will accommodate vessels of any draught, but the bar at the entrance to the harbor keeps away ships drawing more than twenty feet. Before the war Beaufort harbor was the largest port on the Atlantic coast, but It has done comparatively little since the war.”—-Washington Post.