The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-06
HELGESEN FIRM IN
BELIEF AID IS
At HAND
Washington Interview Finds
Congressman Expects
Federal Support

Under q washington date line
comes h information. confirming
Forks Commercial club. to the effect
that the house committee on rivers
and harbors is just about to report
fayorably on the question of having
an official survey made by the United
States army engineers Of the Ped
ity ct an early date. He predicts that
tine federal government will provide
cash for the enterprise.
He proposes to have the river naN!-
gable as far south as Wahpeton and
Breckenridge.
I Discussing the situation. Congress-
man lIelEesen says that few Ameri-
cans have anything like an adequate
idea of the immensely of the Canadian
territory that this river improvement
VIII help in opening up for Americans
and Canadians.
Praises ST. Andrews Locks.
|. Look at The splendid harhor that
is to be developed in the Hudson bay
ny the Canadian government" said
MT. Helgescn. and whilst are ad-
mlring its extent. learn that it ia
nearer to Liverpool than New. York
harbor. and that it will easily accom-
modate the largest coast liners hullt
by any nation. The Canadian govern
ment is going to spend many millions
or dollars in making a deep waterway
connecting Winnipeg With the Hud-
son bay, and it has already built a
large lock and dam between Winnipeg
so that big steamships come w
to the city OF Winnipeg. This LOCK-
and dam backs up the water in the
Red river rcarly to the national
boundary line: and what We in North
~ kota are after is to secure enough
locks = draws on the Red river on
the American side SO as to make that
river permanently n%avigable as far
south as Wahpeton and breckenridge.
America Rcaps Benefit.
BY putting in sufficient locks and
draws We can reap the full benefit OF
the immense deep water way system
that is already in course of construc-
ion between Winnipeg n the Hud-
river valley of the north practically
on the seaboard. making it possible
TO snip Very much more than one
hundred million bushels Of grain, and
t:lat is putting it rather mildly and con-
serFauvelE, to European water.
Cash Expenditure Small.
There is no %discounting the energy.
and pluck. the business sagacity and
the indomitable enterprise of Winn,-
peg n its people in makins the most
OF their natural advantages" pursued
the speaker. The Canadian govern.
meat recognizes these qualities. and is
prompt in acknowledgement. for it is
spending millions of dollars and is
going to spend many more-it knows
that they will mighty soon bear good
trult on the Hudson bay harbor and
the deep waterway system connecting
Winnipeg Herewith. In all of the
many deeper waterways. plans propos-
cd in the United States there is not
ne ble will this one: and not
one where our own people can reao
such material benefits as can be de-
rived from such a small expenditure
OF money on our own part.
We are taking a lesson from those
people. and we take of our hats to
Winnipeg. Beside other nnumerable
advantages. this now ocean route
which Canada is about to open ip.
VII cut freight rates between the Rod
river valley and Liverpool. probably
ni'e and will have i,iv
the same effect on Winnipeg. which &,
snotner year or so will he sending
across the ocean even or eight hun
9reo miiiion bushels of grain a year.
! would not be surprised to hear that
Winnipeg had made up its mind to
exceed the billion mark.
what helps Winnipeg in the deep
waterways / speak Of will helm North
dakota and the United States. as we'll
as Canada itself. The United States
mas at last taken hold in this matter.
and We be depended on to do our
snare. n to FORK hand-in-hand with
boundary line. The Red river s,rvsy
Will not take long to complete. The
government will promptly SUNNY aiI
necessary funds to make the rive iu.e
ms deep and as broad as the conditions
will demand"