Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-28
BUSINESS IS MEANT
By the Promoters of the Interna-
tional Navigation Plans.
IT'S A PRIVATE ENTERPRISE,
And There Is No Danger Of Uncle Sam
Bindering 1t.
DISADVANTAGES OF A RIVAL SURVEY
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE D1sPArcu.,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
OTTAWA, ONT, Dec. 27.-One of the
promoters of the International Navigation
syndicate was interviewed to-day by The
DISPATCH correspondent in reference to
kilograms from Washington credited to the
State Department to the effect that the
United States authorities are not informed
as to plans of the international Naviga-
tion." The promoter, who is here nego-
tiating with the Canadian Government for
the necessary charter powers, says there
was no necessity to take counsel with the
State Department, as the proposition is a
commercial and not diplomatic one, and
has no political function, being designed
solely to provide the cheapest possible
transportation between the people who pro-
duce and those who consume.
When asked if the international Navi-
CATION" could pay dividends if vessels
using it were denied the privilege of going
to New York City, as foreshadowed by
the State Department, he replied: "Ves-
sells will not be denied the right of going
to New York City. New York wants to
bring commerce in. not to shut it out. The
Departmental clerks who uttered the senti-
ments in question are not the arbiters of the
question. The people will decide. The
people groan under transportation charges
which limit their activities, check their
development, and take from them their
proper margin of profit, making their farm
ing, manufacturing, mining and commercial
ventures extra hazardous and improbable
in any but the very best OF years
Cheap Rates Will BE Grasped
1.-THE people will get their products out
by the best and cheapest outlet open to
them, and if any official tries to stop them
SO much the worse for him. The Interna-
t1onal Navigation will pay good dividends
The existing traffic is so vast that the saw
ing to be effected has been estimated as
interest on upward of 500, 100000"
When asked ii there is any connection
| between the International Navigation and
| the Deep Waterway convention called at
| Washington for January IL, he replied:
''none at all. That convention will be
asked to indorse project prepared by the
United States Army, which includes canal
q miles long around Niagara, from Tona-
wanda to Olieott harbor, thence utilizing
Lake Ontario to Oswego, ascending the
Oswego river to Oneida Lake, transversing
Oneida Lake. which must be deepened, and
a canal to the Mohawk, and descending the
canalized Mohawk to the Hudson river.
eff the locks of this navigation are
similar to the Sault Ste. Marie lock, which
is the ne plus ultra of the United States
army engineers, and their probable model,
there will be required 18 locks between
Erie and Ontario, six between Ontario and
Oneida lakes and 20 between Oneida lake
and the Hudson river, or A locks in all.
Too Expensive an Undertaking
"a vessel using the navigation would be
over 80 hours in the locks and 100 hours
going from Lake Erie to New York City,
The navigation would accommodate just the
tonnage of the Sault Ste. Marie lock, or
about 1000, 900 tons, and the cost, as
shown by that structure, will be $175 900, =
900 for the A locks, and as much more for
the other works.
''The available water supply in New
York State is all used to aliment the Erie
Canal, and is insufficient for the work, and
the summit of the navigation must be ali
mented with water brought from Lake Erie.
Then there is the problem of caualizing the
Mohawk on a scale never before attempted
anywhere, which is very much such
problem as the Panama people had in the
Chagres river. 1t is generally recognized
by engineers that the practical route is the
one proposed by the international Navi-
CATION, and bills have heretofore been in
troduced in Congress to open it by joint
action of the two countries. We propose
to open it as legitimate commercial enter
Drise" ("