Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-09

this part of England, and II VIII pay
American shippers to investigate the
advantages OF sending their exports by
the canal almost direct to the fac-
tories
MANCHEsTER's MIGHTY WATER
WAY.
have spent some days In going over
the canal and In looking through the
vast warehouses and buildings which
have grown up about 1t. II Is one of
the wonders of modern engineering,
and as long time investment 1t will
probably be a success, although the
present generation and perhaps the
next cannot expect TO have dividends
out of IT, The cost Of the undertake
ing has been enormous At the start
Il was thought that the canal could
be constructed for forty million dol-
lara, but when completed II was found
to have cost seventy-llve million dol
lars. Before It was built Manchester
was on the down grade It's factories
and warehouses We're falling and some
OF the greatest Of It's industrial insti-
iutions Neie transferring their plants
and business To Glasgow, where they
could have better shipping facilities.
Liverpool was steadily gaining and
Manchester cteadily declining. The
former city cbarsed what tolls II pleas
cd on gUOs passing through to
the Malchts ier region, and the rail-
roads collected enormous freight rates.
HuW TIE CANAL WAS BUILT
As a result the Maachostas manuac-
turers saw ruin Staring them In the
face. They came tJstllef. pluan Il tuis
ship canal ana raised the money to
build d. They 90 the clJy cpi ro.D.lul
of Manchester 10 back thcm % tlc eX-
tent OF so 00l, ObJ ilty pa taeit hands
into their own pockets ana gave mill
lions more, ana Sithia suJrt time
they had an army oi laDogefs AT work
larger than that which Nenoph0n led on
his march to the sea- Waen IN iul
swing their army consisted ut 900
men divided into eight companies, or
ncerod by picked experts each digging
at section about four miles IN length
This army had its camps IN each Sec
tlOn. Its tents were wooden houses
made from lumber brought from the
United States, and as many OF the
workmen had their wives and families
there was a busy town along the whole
line Of the canal.
No one can appreciate the extent VI
the work without going over the canal
II is S5h miles long, 26 feet deep and at
the bottom 100 feet wide. If you can
imagine a cellar so deep that you could
drop a two-story house within IL and
have the roof below the surface, so wide
that the average city lot could be laid
out crosswise across the bottom, and so
long that il would take a railroad train
at good speed an hour to run from
one end of II to the other, you may
have some idea Of It's enormous ditch
which the Manchester people have dug
from their city TO the sea, A part Of
the canal was along the course Of the
little river lrwell but much Of II had
TO be dug out Of the solid rock The
excavation necessary was half as great
as that required for the Suez canal and
most OF 1t mueh more difficult Eight
miles of embankment and sea walls had
TO be erected along the foreshore of the
Mersey and upon the whole canal TO-
600 600 bricks and 220. 900 900 cubic yards
Of masonry were constructed.
Five sets of locks were put In, each
big enough TO admit an Atlantic liner,
and these, by means of great steel sluice
gates, raise and lower the ships to
the height or depth Of 60 feet There
are, in short, from Manchester TO the
! sea, five mighty steps each IL feet high,