The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-31
YANKEES SUSPECT
CANADIAN SCHEME
Application for Waterway Rights
in Hay Lake Canal Is to
Be Made.

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Oct. 29.-Recent dis.
patches from Ottawa say that the Ca
madam government will soon apply to
tas Hate staees for pryleges in the
building privileges similar to those en-
joyed in the smaller and more tortu-
GUS st. Mary's canal, which is in the
st. Mary Is river, the boundary between
the upper end Of the lower peninsula Of
Michigan and Canada. Canada wants
that the construction Of the new canal
| will lower the level of the Canadian
| waterway.
This contention is not admitted by
officers Of the engineer corps stationed
| here. They say that there is enough.
water in Lake Superior, between which
and Lake Huron the st. Mary's river
flows, to maintain the level Of the Ca
madam canal 50 that it will accommo-
The Canadian 500 canal was built
some years ago and to accommodate
vessels of that time. Since then the
freight carriers on the lakes have been
increased in size and depth until now
few draw ray Less less than eighteen feet and
these vessels use the old canal now
adays because they can get straighter
channel thru the American waterway.
American officers say that Canada
must be trying to get something more
than appears on the surface, and in or
| der to make an entering wedge, have
| alleged a probable loss Of depth in their
| canal, which is characterized here as
absurd.
Several Disputes On.
f the Canadian government starts
nnnfrnUarSv tho o1ro
nal it will only be one of several about
| which protests have been made Some
months ago protest was filed with
our state department against the con-
struction of irrigation works in Mon
tana which involved the use Of the
1 Mii X river and the st. Mary's, river,
the waterway popularity known as the
$500" -, ,0..'-''.
In the case of the Montana rivers it
was alleged that the construction of
irrigation works would deprive settlers
on the Canadian side of the boundary.
The Milk river rises in one portion Of
the border, and then back into the
state. The irrigation works planned by
the geological survey provide for the
use Of water in both ends of the stream,
but In replying to the Canadian protest
It was said that it was not proposed
~ uSS I'LL Cno water, ana that Cana
dian landowners would not be deprived
Of any Of their riparian rights. A sim
liar reply was made in the case of the
st. Mary's river irrigation project. -
Minnesota Project.
Recently, however, a protest has
been received against the diversion of
Pigeon river, in northern Minnesota, so
that it will flow wholly south and into
Lake Superior. Pigeon river rises in
Greenwood lake and is part of the nat
ural boundary between Minnesota and
Canada, and emptying into Lake Su-
Per1or. State department officials are
vague in stating this case, as little is
known of conditions in that region.
There are neither river and harbor
works nor irrigation works being con-
known here, aa fufdth p1 inves ST as
ton will be made before anything is
done by the ,Unibed States government.
a state department official, they are
the subjects Of correspondence be-
tween the two governments. They viii
be .amicably adjusted some day, but
diplomacy, like art, is long. r.