The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1904-11-25
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a,watter. bone commerce OF very nearly
Q ,, ooo, 600 tons per year. The Erie
Canal will furnish the cheapest route
for connecting this vast lake com
merce with the seaboard, aud its wide
reaching influence can hardly be
conceived or appreciated by those
who have given years of study to the
problem.
"In magnitude the work that New
York has undertaken exceeds the
work at Parame. More earth and
rock must be excavated more masonry
used, and more dams built. The cost
per unit Is not nearly SO high as at
Panama, because the work will be
done In the temperate zone, where
labor, tools and materials area bund
mt and reasonably cheap.
I'm the complexity of the engiu
eering questions involved, the Erie is
hardly second to the Panama Canal
for, while the canalizstion OF the
Mohawk river is very differenl
problem for the control and utiliza
ton Of the Chagres river they are
both engineering projects OF the very
first magnitude.
The building OF the Panama Cana
under conditions akin to the proposed
enlargement OF the Erie Barge Canal
would be a simpler cheaper. and cas-
Ter work than that which New York
has undertaken.
ut is believed that these new aud
enlarged canals will be of benefit &c
New York in enabling her to remain
and increase her commercial supre.
macy largely through their controlling
influence on freight rates and the pre-
vention of differential discrimination
against the port Of New York, which
is row ard has for years been the
rule.
They will also benefit the entr.
rrgiou OF the Great Lakes, and this
,eneft VIII extend Tar into the inter
ior OF the great North west and i'fla
enc transportation rates through the
country.
Upon n. Great Lakes many mil
.io.s OF IRE. =. al ere transported svsry
year at excee iirgly low rates-.ta
/ loaer than az pos IDLE by any other
taan wa.-r transportation. The ca
nals that New York ha, undertaken
to build viii practically extend this
cheap system OF water transportation
to the seapor! of New York and other
ports in the vicinity, and bind the
East and West closer together"
England Is a country that depends
largely upon canal navigation, al
though 1t has a network of railways
which Is closer, probably, than any
other in the world. There are 1907
miles of canals In Great Britain the
vast proportion being In England.
The canals carrying considerably over
40, 900, 900 tons year.
The most important of them Is the
Manchester Ship Canal which was
nailed as great engineering feat when
1t was opened In 1895. Its magni-
tude as business enterprise may BE-
appreciated from the fact the capital
of the company which owns 1t Is ST..
500 600 and that Its revenue Is quar-
ter OF the entire revenue of all the
canals in Great Britain although Its
lengthy Is only twenty-five and a
halt miles
The most important canal work I'M
dertaken in Germany in recent years
was the constitution Of the Kaiser
/ Wilhelm canal across The Schleswig
Holsteir neck from Kiei to the Elbe.
This canal was opened in June, 1895,
II facilitates the transferance OF wa
ships from the principal naval estab
lishment on the Baltic Kiel, to the
chief German North Sea base, VIII
/ helmshaven.
The canal Is sixty seven miles long
and over 200 feet broad. 1t cost about
$50, 900, 900, but 1t has been a splen-
! did success. Over $4,000 ships pass
"a ro,.gL IL every war (.,.r "A \