Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-01-04

will continue to belost; for until completed
to the Lake our part, will not pay more
than the repairs. Add the small amount OF
$l68,OO0 yet required to finish our part &c
that heretofore expended, and it will amount
to some less than millions of dollars: n,
the present high rates of interest and great
scarcity and value Of money, the interest on
this may be estimated worth from SIgO to
ssl50,OOO annually lost to Indiana, if com
Pleted to the Lake our portion of it would it
Is thought, annually yield us clear income
from tolls and other sources of from to
SOC, 900 dollars, which would now be most
truly very acceptable, to aid us in paving
interest on loans; these are losses much to
be regretted, and ifpossible that should be
speedily remedied; prompt and vigorous
measures and actions on the part of both
states, due to each other and to the expec-
tatlons, created thro lghout the union, by
reason of the liberal donation, will accom-
pllsh it by the close of another season.
As to Indiana it is all important that he-
part should be finished, as early as possible
next season, for another reason, that the
proceeds of the canal lands, and those vet
to be procured in the Miami purchase, NAV
be sold and the avails estimated to be from
$780, to one million of dollars, may be
used by the state to relieve the people from
the bnrthen of taxation, on her loans or in
the prosecution of other works: this latter
disposition Of them, now all important in
our embarrassed condition, cannot be made
until the whole OF our part of it be compile
ted. Inc committee cannot believe that
Ohio would continue to disappont the Just
expectations of Indiana, or longer to embar
rass her with the losses referred to, if full
representation Of the facts were made to
the members of her Legislature and with
this view OF the subject, the committee un-
hesitatngly recommend the appointment of
special Commissioner as before suggested.
From the information obtained of the
tardy prosecution of this work in Ohio, it is
greatly 20 be feared, should like policy pre-.
vail, that some 8 or years may vet pass by
before it is completed to Lake Erie; where
as the who.e # 1t with that unfinished in In
diana can by the adoption of vigorous meas
ures by both states, be completed the ensu-
ing season. One other remark that is most
painful for the committee to make, and thev
take leave of the subject so far as relates
to the course pursued by Ohio; that is in
relation to the construction of central part
ofthis canal, fom the Indiana hne to the
! Auglaizc liver, distance of 10 miles, some
ID or 20 feet narrower and or 8 feet shall
lower than it is 60 miles east of it in Ohio
and 90 miles west, in Indiana. This link
that connects from the Miami canal, to the
wide canal from Fort Wayne, to meet them
should certainly be as wide, and as deep, as
the balance of the canal east and west OF
it, to construct almost central in this thor
oughfare a piece Of canal narrower and
shallower, to interrupt large class of boats
that might be employed east of it, or in In
diana, where 1t is constructed large to Fort
Wayne, is certainly an occurrence that can
be justly complained of. And as far as re-
lates to the prosecution ofthis grea work in
Indiana, important as it is to the whole
State, and of general and permanent inte-
rest to all its citizens, your committee regret
to be compelled to say, that they find but
little to admire or applaud, and trust that
it will not betaken as an example of future
operations.
thus, in 1884, operations were commen-
| ced on if. Near eipbt years have nassed
away and line of canal of onlv $50 miles
IN length, though one Of the cieapest and
most favored routes in the world, is vet nm
finished; longer time than was taken bv
New York (when under the direction ofthe
patriotic Clinton to finish the New York
and Erie canal of $50 miles in length. with
Herculeun obstacles to encounter and over
| Al. ~
connecting lake Erie with the Ohio river
throuph much more difficult route of soo
miles in length.
The commi,tee feel constra;ned ~ s,v
that in their oninion. half of eigh, years
were sufficient te finish the mart in diana
struction, directed as was their du,y. de-
cisye and energetic prosecution of il. with
n view TO n sneedv completion. Had This
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