The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-20
FROM CHICAGO TO TEE SEA.
Capt Bfondi Describes the Voyage
Over the Present Route.

PoRT TowxsESD, JSa IA, 1893
To -HE EDITos: In your issue OF the 18th
Inst, under the heading OF ''Ch5csgo ss.-
port, your correspondent il Washington City
informs u that the Duluth Chareoer OF Com.
neres has called convention q representa-
rVes o. the commercial bodies &c organize q
movement IN support OF scheme TO Unite The
Great Lakes and the ocean by & ship canal
through United states territory. Having served
as AZ officer on revenue vessels seSscai seasons
On al the Great Lakes previous - coming 10
this Coast, my memory il still fresh as regards
sailing directions rom Chicago &c tie see, and
for the beueat OF your readers, WIS nay De IL
tsrested. give You the following n3.es:
Chicago icing nearly st sue Eead OF Lake
Michigan, tie course is nearly due north 10 the
straits 0! Aackinae, into Lake Eur@n, when the
course is Changed 70 a southersg direction.
thence through The river st. Clair and the De-
troll river into Lake Erie 70 butalo; thence
through 20 LAKE Ontario Is the hgsc obstacle 70
free navigation. IS the natural channel IL By
the Niagara river, with q ia.l o! Its feet in the
rapids above and below the falls. Fo- The pur-
pose OF overcoming this obstacle ;sle Dominion
government constructed the WelisIsd shi canal,
from Por. Colborne on Lake Ere, 70 Port Dsl-
housie. on LAKE Ontario. This easai was hrs:
opened IN 1st3. L il 262z miles in length, with
70 locks. OF which - are lii. locks, and
one is guard lock. Each lock 81 20 !eet long
teen feet is the draft OF water "a the si.s.
Navigation is again free through lake Ontario.
between LAKE Ontario and Aont@aal, through
the 81 Lawrence river, are nuu5er OF rapids.
To avoid them the Dominion government con-
structed series OF canals, snotsn IS the =.
Lawrence canals, which are Necessary for the
purpose OF avoiding the rapids iGr ascending
vessels. The frat rapids are called :a!op rapids,
which s the most shallow, with 8 ssgaighc eAsu-
mel OF 3, 30 feet long " 10 wide. TIE other
rapids sr e az Point Au IrOquoi= AID Point Car
dinal. The canal is called GaloD cana. I. Is
7s5 miles long, with three locks 209zi feet, hav
lug total rise OF I5ia feet, vita siae feet OF
water on the ellis The next .apGis are four
and one-hait miles below and they x.e called the
Rapid Plat The canal bears It's neine and i. -
four miles long, with two locks -1oSij Feet with
total rise by iockege OF llI2 iee.: $ .eeI drair.
Ten and one-hgIf miles below are zhe Farrants
rapids. They are safe 20 descending vessels.
Ascending vessels go through tae canal, three
quarters Of a mile long, with one lock. o00xi5
ieeE, having total rise by locAage OF four feet
and nine feet GraggaI
Five niles below is the Cornwall :aral, eleven
AM one-haii miles long, with six seeks, having
a total rise Dy lockage OF forty-eigiEt feet This
canal conforms with the new scaeI1e OF enlarg-
ing eli locks 10 279x43 feet ana deepening the
water 10 eighteen feet. Two OF the cocks are en-
larged; the remaining four sre on!5 2lOxi5 feet.
the BeauhaEnais cana, which coi:0ects Lakes
s;. Francis and St Louis, ami sasses three
series OF rapids. II is eleven aud .one-4ia-ter
miles long with nine locks 2D0xi5 ieet, with a
total rise OF eigh'y-two and one-hs!r .ees
The comes the last canal. called che Lachine
canal. IRON the village by that uar1e. 20 Mon
treat, overcoming the 81. Louis rapids. Il 8
eight and one-half miles long and contains FIVE
locks. each 270xf5 feet The total rise by lock
age Is fOrty-fiye !eet. From Moutresi 70 the sea
a distance OF Loo miles, is free navigation.
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