The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-06-23

ser 10 H. commercial interests II NAY be
ceep~ned and widcnc6 10 increase 81 up
stream row. Further than that fhfre will
have 10 ~ one or more smaller surTH chan
nels leading frc1 Ne nor,h hranc,. Of the
river or from the lake 20 she hi< caaal The
eoeo cubic feet a minute VII be drawn from
Two and probably three sources ~ chicago-
win the somplet.n q the canal from the
Chiearo river 70 Joliet Al . round cost o. So
- catesso wtll consider her share % the
work lone The government must DO the resi-
And What Is the rests
The removal q the dams aud locks in the
Illinois river from la sale 70 Grafton. a dis
tarce 81 - miles said NJ. Cooley Then
must follow systematic work ~ dredging and
otherwise for deepening the channel % the
iil.nois With the additional water 20 will
furnish. the Illinois Tor that - miles can -
vsv-r 80 s~~s ~ water NJ n minimum m \ chan
mel so feet vide At the bottom
.'At what cost Mr. Cooieyg'
AT cost ~ s2On0o And eight months in
the year We can make u "a fee, depth. That
aS0ut covers the period ~ navigation We are
closed BY Nay OF the lakes ave months
What about the SEXTON OF the Illinois from
joliet down - La >aiie~'
That Is r0ck-oouad and more OF a problem
than The - miles below The descent j. &c
feet. I, will require four or Eve locks / have
got every survey made or tha, part 81 tbs river
To correspond with the conierp.a:>i d~pih Of
water below II win cost sf5o00s 10 ~ this
part 81 tbs Illinois from the end 81 our canal 20
Il sale. People have oyeresfimafet the cost
Capt. Marshall Laid out . pro!ected inrrove
neli on this rock-bourd porii,n o. the Illinois
he thought IL wouli cost s.ioogso 70 improve
II for 10 feet % water. HI: he put the levels
down 10 save property. He made the cost
titroe' greater 10 save snooo worth OF
property. II would Re better 70 lose ssc0es0 in
land. and pay FOR IL and make the canal 81 40
vp cheaper. wouldn't IL. People have talked
q eoui the Chicago part % the work costing from
soon so 10 5000 ODD I made estimates in
Is. which run within 10 per cent OF what the
contracts are nos heinz executed for Based
OF our knowledge OF contracts let We count on
getting tArourh for s.l ocoes between Chicago
and Joliet don't undertake 10 ~ay that that
Z, al we shall spend. This will Re the cost Of
the so-caliet main channel from the Chicago
river 20 the point were We can discharge the
water one half Of The way through solid rock.
II Is the expenditure We are Obliged 10 make
before &c can get any results After that will
come the questions o. further improvements
~ this end such widening for hsrbor
purposes. other connections besides the
river with the lake. and 80 on. This
continued Mr.. Cooley rs about 4 true state
nent Q, ths situation. Themcnev VIZ viii have
- spend 70 get 10 Joliet l. ahcu, what IL viii
cost 20 make corresponding improvement for
navigation from Joliet 70 st Louis look up
on !. feet as n useful development The DAYS
Of feet Of water from lake to gulf have gone
BY the time we reach 81 Louis with 10 feet Of
water a. a minimum all OF the war down from
Chicago. the Lower Mississippi Improvement
plans ought 10 he far enough along TO give cor
responding depth all Of the way TO New Or
leans Il has come now 10 - question simply
Of how much W want - spend We can have
wxwe.4
money Tor a. We are figuring cow on a depth
81 - feet across the divide 70 the Iiiaoi- BE
fore W finish se shall probably have - feet OF
water in our canal II IL only a matter OF time
think rnt.l sentiment xili demand more than
II feet from cnicag 20 70 the gulf.
WIN the lake stand it,
Il don't think il viii make any arpreciabie
difference In the level Of the lake. II We could
lower The lake q foot IL would do far NOR good
than harm The benefits would lie greater than
the cost OF dredging some o: the harbOrs''
You can't say much about the drainage as
pectr'
We hare got pas, that. All OF the discus
sion row IL on the developments OF the CON
rnereiai side That drainage controversy has
turned ont curiously. We have found ihA; the
best plans for the commercial purpose are also
the lest for drainage Ihs: fact Is no; so well
You rad a good deal OF trouble 10 convince
people along the Illinois tina; the se~a-eof chi
cago wouldn't hurt them
Yes. hut think we have overcome all fears
Of contamination The fact is that when our
canal is carrying $1,000 cutie feet a minute the
conditions below via not he IS hai as they are
now The pumps At present transfer about co.
40 cubic feet 81 water . minute from the Chi
caTo river 70 the old canal The canal is rery
sluggish It's about ss nat a. the river. II
carries out only two or three times fhe amount
~ water pumped into the city daily The DIS
times what II Is by the pump
Ing system That means ciiuti~ II
the sewsre. As IL /. now w ca reyeY .ie-
teci The sewage BY chemical NJ lysis lower
down than Ottawa on the Illinois and or
dinarfly II doesn't show nj Morris. don't say
VIA, f. true chemically Is true biolori-ziiy.
The germs rnay travel farther tefore fh-y die
Typhoid germs. for instance. are very per
sisteni- Al the present time IL takes thirty
days Tor water To travel from Chicago TO -,
Louis. or course under the new conditions the
current will he increased Even then IL will
take lake water from seven to ten DAYS to
reach Grafton Illinois river water il not rso.s-
Die anyway. That river drains swamps aud
ike the Observation-Disclosures Of thou
sands Of acres. IL Is full % cecomposcd mat
ter II i 50 highly charged from these natural
sources that the free oxygen Is only from one
third 20 one half what X IS In Lake Michigan
IL naturally stavnates AMI IL full OF malaria
There passes The city Of Ia Sale from ten 70
twelve times the amount Of organic matter
held In solution by the Illinois that /, il pro
duced ~ the whoie city OF Chicago. When We
turn out c0G0 cubic feet PER minute into the
Illinois 4 win re confrf --fion actually rurer
than the natural condition Of that river !
have gone over this ground ayain AMI a--ain
and thiak can prove pretty good all.s On
the question OF pollution % rivers ~ city
drainage Our rivers --e the sewers OF ths
country They receive the teachings ~ All a4-
composing and dccayizr maSr- To srna,s.
that the amount 81 such materials a "a y. to
these streams ~ the people who Ike o. tire
fodder Is greater than that pro sucef br IN.
fodder itself Is AL nonsense Thr~e rot
tom lands and cities in Illinois from Jolse- a.
Grafton will be vastly improved ia sanifa-s
sense. The Illinois will h@ a live str,An. II
rets down now to q flow ~ from az 9lBt1 sSaBsg
cubic feet minute. We will AID a. il pcrrnai nj
ly eDeo cutie fee, n minute Fish Kill fa-f-s
in IL. and there win fe danger 20 the xrs,nil
Toy Who Sits On the hank with line aud HOOK
In the present condition fish can live aAt,vr
the mouth OF the Kznkaxee In the t-hft a -
river the oxygen Of the water Is 80 FAR DESTROYED
that there isn't . vessigc os life left have
had samples examined from the top middle
bottom and all parts Of the stream Not -
much A. a small angie-worm can lire in II
When the new canal Is doing its work s1oaf
suppose you win be able IN detect the srMa.,e