The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-03-19

about Sixty feet. ard th#-
great locks WHICH rise OIL.
other.
This canal goes th~ou-n
the most beautiful! fdrn.a-
Of England. leaving II
YOU sail out Of q region -
warehouses and factories. it..
OF farms as green rs Ohio
The telds are divided i.
hedges. and upon the ri,a --
cattle are feeding. Every .,c
tim YOU pass a manufacturers
You go under one great
bridge natter another. AND
crop down To the Mersey II
its vast Shipping from all paats
world.
The Manchester canal j. liz =
respects like that OF Panama
. lock canal. and it was e&t
the rock. The excavation. na4
amounted to only $1,000 uo
which was. a bagateile in M .-..
with the hundreds Of ms8auu-
have had to take out.
Thu canal was begun VITA tE-
that it would cost about fort.
lion dollars. 1t really cost
twenty-five million dollars.
nevertheless the Manchester M.
me that they thought 1T i ps
investment. Before il Was bu5t. t.,
city was falling. off in business !
commerce. Since then it has 1ra>i
like a Unison weed or the fa..i
gourd of do Jonah. At the a..a
ming the traffic on the canal na9 at.y
a little over 100000 tons. FIN E.s.S
later it had tripled In -qu4ntit, .al
in 1907 it was more than 1.4ea.UgJ
tons. 1t is estimated that il IoH ~D..s
in freight rates three or four tu#-
lion ollar a year to the trad -
Manchester. and thus enables mt
cotton ENTER to compel Win IN"
others which lie on the s,a ,l~t
Before the canal was built the I4r-,
manufacturers We're leaving Man
chester for Glasgow and elSeH ar.-
but since then many industries 81,
been started and ten thousand tHer.-%
have been built to ~accOmmola .e tg-.
incoming people.
The city has constructed -ra.t
docks there in the heart Of tn ltal
and these have a water space - -
acres. while the length Of the 4.t5S
is more than five miles. Their, A.,
large elevators. built BY Chicago n~a
filled with grain which has ha-n
f1oated down our great lakes iai
across the Atlantic. There are wtrr
houses for American cotton. Aut
| American meat is brought i'll II, 'ue
shiGload.
The Big Waterways OF Holland
| took q flying trip to Europe tffia
last unmer and ran through soma
of the main canals Of Belgium
Holland and Germany. HOLLAND =
!, known as the land of canals. 4 las
: big ones and little ones. III. "no~
!, country is cut up by water.
: only about as big as Nassau IS"ts.
but its n~avisable waterways placed
y end to end would reach from \tw
York to San Francisco. and almost
Jack to Chicago. There ar .1l'
gether about FIVE thousand miles u
! them, including the North sea etn*'
which connects Amsterdam with th"
North sea. This is about ttlt'"h
miles Yong. two or three hInlr""i
feet wide and thirty feet deep An
sterdam has also a canal connecting
q it with the Rhine, and thafe ~
+ numerous canals which make i pos
= Sible to reach every part OF the g1ln
try by barses.
Rotterdam is cut up by canat9. tHf
s it is fast becoming one Of tn Sr"af
s ports of the world. having canal @o1
n%ection with Belgium and Germany
and also reaching Germany h. t!"
e Rhine | went from Belgium u H".-
e land by canal, making a trip thu Wy
from Antwerp to Rotterdam. w
e passed through one old-fashlon"l
lock after another, the locks h~in5
r moved by quaint Dutchmen in caps,
y rO~undabOuts and dubious pantai9ph-.
Pretty Dutch girls were scatter~i
d along the banks. and at every 7f1p
h they brought fruit and k~nicknaeks -
sell TO the passengers.
q The New German Canal.
d has r%ecently been 5H =
It ing canals to connect its great Il.r'@
d It's people are the best traders thi
the best manufacturers on earth a"i
= they realize the value of cheap "5
it ter transportation. They have mace
d canals which onnect the EtDe ~:
r the Oder, and the system Will etaf.
le ally embrace the Rhine AM
n Weser. One can go from Ham ~
@ 70 Berlin by canals. and thor +
puSy canals in eastern Germany i.
names of which are not known ~ I"