The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-08-01
The Canal.

great energy during the present MONTH
We learn from Messrs. Cook and Lawrence,
who have been giving their personal atten-
ton TO the work, that the contractors are
making rapid progress with their jobs. All
the bars and shallow places from here TO
Pigeon Summit are being removed, and the
leaks thoroughly and permanently stopped.
I This portion of the Canal will be in order
and the water let on, in the course of ten
days.
The heavy work at Pigeon Summit is
nearly finished; the docking by timber will
4 be completed IN "a few days. For about a
mile at this point, the mud in the bottom of
/ the Canal is being removed to the depth of
ten and eighteen inches. The banks have
here been raised and strengthened, SO as to
bear six inches higher level of water than
they have sustained before. BY means of
| the excavation and the increased level,
twenty-five inches more of water than for
merly will be obtained on the Summit
This will enable boats to pass on the Sum
nit with as large loads as they can carry in
other parts of the Canal. In about two
weeks-if the weather be favorable-the
work at the summit will be complete
The aqueduct over White river has been
put in complete order, and the managers be-
lieve the structure will require little or no
| rauair fnr fnur mr. two veor- Tho most M,
terial parts OF the work are us sound rs
they ever were, and are likely to remain SO
for many years. The injuries it had APP
| parently sustained were exaggerated, and
what it had suffered was caused chiefly by
neglect. In letting or the water, the struc-
ture rose to its proper level, and by tight
ening the bolts and braces and keying it up
1t can easily bc kept in itS.proper place, and
made more secure than ii ever was The
repairs of this work, which were estimated
by the engineer of the Trustees under the
old administration, at cost OF SO, 500 or
more, have been made at IN expense of only
few hundred
The bars are being excavaled and the
leaks efectualiy stopped along the whole line
10 Newberry from Ntwberry to WUr,hiug-
ton, a section Of ...toen ml.c5-tA5 worst
! on the Canal north OF Newberry-is under
going thorough repair, AMI Will he in OF
der by the time Pigeon Summit is complet
ed. From Worlhington' to Terrc Haute the
Canal is in comparatively good order; what
ever repairs it may need viii be male at
once.
From Terre Haute to the Lakes, the Ca
nal IS now in complete navigable ORDER
The water on the whole line was let in on
the 2Oih inst, and an active business las al
ready commenced on il, in transporting the
heavy harvest of wheat that is seeking the
Eastern markets, and in the ireights Of heavy
merchandise from the East for the supply of
the Upper Wabash country, which, after a
suspension OF many months, is loading the
| descending boats. In about fifteen or TWEEN
/ ty days ut furthest, the whole line of the
| Canal from the Ohio river to Lake Erie will
be IN better navigable order than 1t ever has
been; better in every respect than when it
came from the hands of its CONSTRUCTORS
The Board of Managers certainly deserve
the hearty thanks of their fellow-citizens
for the manner in which they have dis
charged their duties. They have repaired
the Canal and put it in more reliably nav
igable condition than any one supposed it
could be made, at less than half the original
estimated costs
They have had the work well and cheaply
done; and now comes the pay day. They
have entered into contracts and assumed
personal liabilities ON the faith Of the sub
scriptions made 10y our citizens. The la
bOrerS and contractors have labored hard
and most faithfully during the sweltering
days Of list month, i'll mud and water-in
danger TO health aud lite-to complete, in
time, their several jobs Ia u few days they
win he awaiting their money, which they
have 50 iaithllSly earhed Every dictate of
honor and good faith forbids that they
should he disappointed iOr day the onIy
resources of the Managers are the subscrip-
ton lists and their private credit TO com
/ pei them 10 resort to the latter would be as
\ dishonoroblc, on the part 81 the subscribers,
| as it would be To delay pay mcnt Ia TIM work
men Every one ought Ia make the prompt
payment OF his subscription point of hon
or; class it among the obligations to be first
discharged.
We hear there are complaints among the
water renters from the Canal, in this city,
against the temporary priyations they are
/ likely TO suffer, ~ drawing OFF the water
! on the lower esei to clean il out. This is
an indispensable work, and the inconye-
niencc Is unavoidable. The best consola-
tion We can offer the sufferers, is for them
to reflect how much worse it would have
been their condition had the Canal remained
/ ia thc hands Of the Trustees. and been per-