New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-12-30
DAVIS FAVoRs THE BILL.
The Senior Senator Talks Regarding the
Canal Improvements Proposed by
Mr.. Lind.

Ihe Senior Senator Talks Regarding the
Canal Improve Proposed by
Mr., Lind.
Senator Dayis was interviewed by a
Minneapolis Tribune reporter in Wash
ington Sunday night regarding the pro.
posed ship canal around Niagara Falls
and said: No bill introduced since the
opening of the session has attracted
more attention. There is a great deal
of misunderstanding regarding the inn
portance of the measure. It is BY no
means a new scheme. The prime OBJ
ject is to benefit western grain shippers.
Several surveys have been made during
the past 20 years for ship canal around
the falls, In 1884 Capt. Williams,
United States engineer, surveyed a
route and wrote concerning it as fol-
lows:
''From the river above the escarp-
ment, or brow of the mountain above
Lewiston there are no engineering diff.
culties. y #. ---..-
In 1867 Col. Blunt of the Topographic
cal engineers made a survey making
the length of the proposed canal seven
and fve-hundredths miles. The per-
pendicular descent from navigable wa
er above to navigable water below the
falls is 320 feet He estimated the cost
of the whole work at $12,OOO,OOO to
$4,000, 600. Theproposed bill calls for an
appropriation of $1,O0O,0O0 only. Ills
idea is to get the canal started before
calling for the entire amount necessary.
The Importance to commerce of canal
around Niagara Falls has long been
recognized. In 1878 bill was intro
duced asking for the construction of
such waterway. The committee sup
ported it declaring it to be Of the great
est Importance that the maximum navi-
gable capacity OF lakes should be adapt
ed in the construction of the canal so as
to obviate the necessity Of transhipment
at the foot of Lake Erie. 1t referred to
the elevator ring at Buffalo which it
asserted made oppressive and unright-
eous extortion at the..expense of the ship
pers and farmers of the West. An esti-
mate of the products which annually
were moved eastward on the lakes aud
distributed from the foot of Lake Erie
was given and the showing was wonder
full, though made 20years ago. With
this route into Lake Ontario vast mum.
bers of lake steamers could and would
descend to the Atlantic ocean and there
engage in the carrying trade in tho win
ter months. That experiment has been
demonstrated beyond all doubt and that
too by vessels of less than 600 tons.
Ocean steamers as we'll as sail vessels
could be construed on the lakes cheaper
than anywhere else because all material
to construct them as we'll as provisions
are cheaper there than On the seaboard.
This would solve the problem so long
and anxiously sought after hy states
men as we'll as commercial men. The
prime object is to revive commerce and
cheaper transportation from the inter-
ior so that our agricultural products
may be carried to Europe alta profit
able rate, and there would no longer be
complaints of languishing commerce.
Senator Davis believes that with ship
canal around Niagara Falls, the United
States could secure the provision mar
ket of Western Europe. Its his idea
that products generally would be
shipped from Chicago, Duluth, Super
ior, Gladstone and other Northwestern
points to Oswego, thence by canal to
the Hudson and on to the seaboard It
is thought that a saving.sof one dollar
per ton could be effected by this ar
rangement. The connection with the
Hudson from Oswego is a project that
involves no difficult problems. All
Eastern men who have no selfish inter
est in the matter say that the measure
| would save thousands Of dollars annu-
! ally to the farmers Of Minnesota, Wis.
consin and the Dakotas.
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