The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-04-06
THREE MILE EXTENSION OF THE
DRAINAGE CANAL TO LAKE
JOLIET AGREED UPON.
WILL INTRODUCE BILL
In Illinois Legislature for Improve
ment Which viii Cost $780,.
O00-First Move for "On
to the Gulf"

II Springfield, ILL.,, April IA three
mile extension of the drainage canal
at a cost of s5,000,0o0 was agreed on
Hast night at conference in the gov.
ernors office and bill will be intro
duced in the 81 nate to give the sanl-
tary district authority TO build 1t as
The first step In the deep waterway to
the gulf.
BY this addition the drainage canal
will be carried through the city of
Joliet to Lake Joliet and that city will
be given access to lake traffic, a
thing desired by the industries located
there.
With ths, removal of the tunnels in
the Chicago river and the extension
of the drainage canal ii should be pos
sible for the steel works In Joliet to
get their ore by lake carriers as South
Chicago mills get 1t, and for other in
dustrial reasons this access to the
lake route IS desired by Will county
manufacturers.
General Agreement Reached.
A general agreement has been
reached between the contendlng part
les in the water rights dispute, of
which agreement the proposal to build
a canal extension is part. Governor
Deneen has been working with rep
resetntative of the fanitary district
board and the Illinois and Michigan
canal committee for a month in an
effort to arrive at compromise and
at last has been succs ssful.
Legislative consent is necessary to
carry out the program which includes
not only the building Of the three mile
addit on but also the granting Of pow
Ter 10 the sanitary district TO develop
water power as far az Lake Joliet. In
exchange for the relinquishment by
the Illinois and Michigan canal com
missioners of the rights in dam No.
/, used by the Economy Light and
Power company. the sanitary district
board will contract to pay $4,000 a
year to the canal board for the main
tenance of the canal from Joliet TO
Peru.
Governor Deneen attains an end
which he has been desitous OF attain.
| ing. He will be able to make start
in building the deep waterway, Anoth-
er result which it is expected VIII
follow will be the passage of the san.
itary district bill, providing for an
Increase in the bond issue and for
Iother extensions of power.
Barr to Gain Point.
This bill has been held mp in the
senate because Senator Barr of VIII
county proposed first to secure Ger
tain advantages for his district before
allowing the measure to de adopted.
He was supported by a sufficient mum.
Der of senators to make II improb.
able that the sanitary district could
get what Il wanted until Mr.. Barr Sc
cured what he wanted. He has an
nounced that his aims will be accom-
plished If the sanitary district will
build the proposed extension to Lake
Joliet, giving the city access TO the
lake route and taking the first step
towards the construction OF de p
waterway TO the gulf.
In exchange for this end to justify
the expense the district is TO be given
the right to develop water power as
far south as Lake Joliet. Two bills
are needed for these purposes, one
granting authority TO build the exten-
sion and the other increasing the ter
T. tory in which water power may b.
developed.
President r. r. Mccormick and 9th
er representatives of the sanitary dis
triet who have been in eonference
with the governor and with the rep
resentatives of other interests invol-
we'd bellev that the water power de-
veiopment which will be po sible in
the proposed extension will make an
expend Of s. 100000 in its con
s'ruction highly profitable invest
ment.
Tn Illisois and Michigan canal
commission wonted 100000 annually
I lin consideration for relinquishitg
. their rights In dam No. l, which sup
, plies power for the Economy Light
and Power company. which lights Jol
let and in which John J. Mitchell i'
! said 10 be interested.
! plea for Tsdpole Ditch.
Commii sion rs Snively and Saeketi
! Of the Illinois and Michigan cana
ho.rd have ouunead the removal # fhe
dam. strenuously insisting hat tbs
/ rental which the canal board received
. from the power company vas praeiic
! ally its only revenue and that on Is
moval the tadpole ditch would be
bankrupt
Several attempts 10 patch mp an
agreement between the sanitary dis
triet and the canal ditch were made