Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-11-30

no Canadian craft to use the American
lock at the 300 without payment " !
heavy tonnage tax. S3y8f S88ss
(. Canadis.s Ansry. sS
Besides, Canadian lumber boats frorn
Ottawa and elsewhere plying to New York
through Lake Champlain, the whitehall
4 canal and the Hudson river, are forced ~
pay tolls twithstanding the treatyod
1860, while American boats II the vGry
same trade have free passage Ia the Cana,
dian canals. All protests against thia
discrimination have been unavaihng, the
plea Of the federal government being thAt
the Whitehall canal Is q state canal and
therefore beyond the jurisdiction and con.
troll Of the United States.
This subterfuge, this elevation Of state
sovereignty. naturally makes the Cana
dams Disguised and angry, and we may be
sure that they will retaiiate az soon AZ
they shall be able, which will he next
year, and drive Yankee boats out Of the
ST. Lawrence trade by returning ~ the
system of rebates which caused 50 much
trouble three years ago, and which they
were forced to abandon only because they
had no lock at the 500 and could not got
war about it. S5 IL 5ssss
!. Yankees VIII BE Powsrlssa.
1.-THE situation, therefore, for next year
IL this: The Canadians will have q big
lock Of their own at the 500; they have the
only locks around Niagara Falls the Vel
land canal-and the only locks around the
rapids of the st. Lawrence down TO the
sea. They will have q free way from the
head Of Lake Superior to the Atlantic tor
their own boats, and we will be In 9 pocket
with ours. g>..". s'@:.s,
"The notion that we can exclude Cana
dian craft from the St. Clair fats channel,
which is just above Detroit, ! think,
speaking from memory, is erroneous
especially il that channel Is boundary
water and not wholly ON American soil
would amount TO little or nothing. as the
great bulk of Canadian business to and
from Lake Superior arises or ends at Col
lingwood and Owen Sound, on Lake
Huron. and is carried by the Canadian
Pacific and North Shore Navigation com
pany's ships, and the principal business
for the Welland and St. Lawrence canals
originates on Lake Erie, below st. Clair
fats, or is created by transhipment at the
foot Of Lake Ontario into the smaller
boats, which go down the river. &S
$50 Canada is practically beyond our
reach, while we are practically ut the
mercy of the Canadians. .55s5F
United Action Necessity, S
1T is the plan of our association to have
the two countries come to an amicable un-
Outstanding as to the construction, main
tenance and control of ship channel from
Duluth and Superior to the sea before any
complications in this direction shall arise
'.In fact we are practically compelled TODD
IN ,iolro, oOl lo<1rp
It and act on it the better it will be for us.
1--WE do not apprehend that very long
time will be required to bring tb.s two
countries to an understanding Canada is
deeply in debt for railways, canals and
other subsidies and improvements; her
population is small compared to ours and
stretched in narrow, thin ribbon from
the Gulf of st. Lawrence to Puget Sound,
yet she must get out to the sea with her
larger craft. She is now struggling to
deeper. her St. Lawrence channels to IA
feet and she wants help-in fact is sadly
in need of it. II ..s r.. E@.aslI1#. 3s#*S
>.'gs.Ths states have been completely out
& generated by the Canadians so we have no
passage OF our own around Niagarl Fails
or around the st. Lawrence rapids
nevertheless 81 per cent of tha enor-
NOUS traffic at the 500 is ours and about
IS per cent of all the lake traffic west of
Buffalo is also American. Therefore we
who have no locks and canals except at the
500 IRE hundred fold more i'll need of
free neutral channels than CANDIDA, which
has all Of them, but the Welland, Lachine,
Soulanger and other St. Lawrence locks
are Of course too shallow to accommodate
our big upper lake shipping. audit is in
them and in q canal around Niagara Falls
that we need to expend the first money.
A stupendous Conception.
II may say word as to the channels
needed. The idea of the more able and ex-
perienced engineers is to have, ultimately,
three channels leading down to the sea.
One should consist of the main channel Of
the ST. Lawrence, cleaned out and deep
ened, SO that laden craft can shoot at
great speed down to tho gulf without
locking; the other should consist of locks
around the rapids for the use Of vessels
going up that stream, and the other should
be down the Hudson, probably through
Lake Champlain. -$ a
! "Such a plan would give enormous
capacity to the canals and rivers, espe-
cially for the traffic down the St. Law
renee, gaining rapid speed down and avoid
ing all danger from collision both ways;
ana two canals, Cnus arranged, WOuIO nave
practically four times the capacity of one
canal. * a., -. 4
ssThere should be two canals around
Niagara Falls-frst. one via Lockport on
the American side with eight locks of 40
feet lift each, and then the enlargement
on the same plan Of the Welland canal in
!, Canada 4, ( a,F.$, .# ,&.g5y
! i..The cost would not be 80 great as has
hnan .,,nr,nand--319 On nm tn mako tho