Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-18
To Transport Ships.

@S8# 10 1faHSpoft SIlApS.
At the last session of the Ontario
Tegislature an act was passed incorpor-
lug the Ontario Ship Railway Com
nony. The project Of this company is to
bflild three track railway from Toronto
son Lake Ontario to Collingwood on
Georgian Bay in Lake Huron TOR the
pnrpose OF hauling lake vessels between
hose two points. The plans are sub
sfantially the same as those prepared
81 the Tehuantepec Ship Railway prof
ected by the late Capt. James B. Eads,
nd of which Mr. Corthell is now the
Engineer.
|# Simply stated the plans provide for
basins or docks at the terminals, which
IAN be empted and filled at will, and
uhere the vessels can be foated on and
ID the enormous car designed to trans
pbrt them On the car the vessels will
LIST securely on cradles. The car itself
Ill be drawn by six Or more powerful
locomotives. The. accompanying illus
<ration will give clearer idea of the
hin railway than can be conveyed in a
description.
Ill From Toronto to Collingwood the
rroposed route is practically a straight
Inc, but on the Tehuantepec route
HI ere are several reflections which give
Hse to the necessity of building water
= IN tables, it being impossible to haul
nc long car around curves. At the
ID table the vessel is tioated, turned
III accordance with the direction of con-
Hecting line, reloaded, and sent on it's
May
lid Mr.. Corthell said the completion of
the Ontario line would save 800 miles of
Drtuous navigation through the ST.
Glair River, Lake Erie, and Niagara
Halls 1t would take directly from Lake
Huron into Lake Ontario traffic which
low stops at Buffalo. Vessels from
Ghicago to Duluth drawing twenty feet
Gpud 90 to Ogdensburg and down the
a. Lawrence, nearly 200 miles farther
&bst than they can go now.
sd Ten important ports on Lake On
Ia rio and the whole Atlantic seabOard."
Did Mr. Corthell, would be vastly
henetited, to say nothing Of the West
3t1d Northwest, because loads could be
Earred so much farther before breaking
Hll
The length Of the proposed line is
Xty-siX miles through comparatively
II vel country, where no rock is en-
cbuntered. Mr.. Corthell's estimate Of
be cost is SIS 800, 900.
ss# Conception OF the Scneme-
u The Ontario Ship Railway is devel-
opment of the Ontario ship canal: AS
N back as 1916 an examination was
" AIDE of the territory between the
eorgian Bay and Toronto by Mr..
Nivas Tully, one Of Toronto's best
II own citizens, SO as to decide as to the
"a feasibility of building ship canal be-
tEeen these two pc nts. In 1881 and
30 he made a further examination. 1t
ID ust here be borne in mind that this
as the old Indian route between Lake
Ontario and the north. Mr.. Tully'S
Examination was made at the instance
II the Toronto Board of Trade. Col. r.
Mason, of Chicago, made survey
ong with Mr.. Tully in 1855, and maps
hd plans of the project were published
1858. The estimated cost OF the
bnal was fixed at PATIO, $50. The
&ngth Of the route by the way of Lake
imcoe was 100 miles, with fifty locks
81 feet in length, fifty-five feet in
idth, and twelve feet lift. \ COM
hny was formed in 1856 for carrying
the project, but in 1865 the charter
as amended under the name of the
uron and Ontario Ship Canal Com
amy.
In 1881 the late Captain James B.
lads, one Of the greatest engineers in
be world of his day, when projecting
f. snip railway across the Isthmus in
eNico, was requested by the Hon. ID.
lain, Mr.. Tully and others to give an
finion as to the practicability of the
ontario ship railway project. He pro-
punced it entirely practicable, and
bat the land was admirably suited for
Re purpose This opinion was given
Captain Eads after considering the
after for several years. The length OF
Re proposed road will be sixty-six
lies. There will be three tracks Of