El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-21
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W lection from submarines for ouI
Atlantic coast commerce.
An inland waterway from the har-
Dor Of Boston to the mouth Of the
Rio Grande on the Mexican boundary
A system Of ship canals that will
enable US to defend our Industrial
centers east Of the AIleghanies and
preserve the national capital free
from invasion,
This in a nutshell indicates one OF
the chief features Of after the war
legislation The subject is now be-
fore congress. The department Of
commerce is investigating the mat
ter The government has already ac-
quired some Of the links in the chain
and 1t is preparing TO buy and devel-
OF the others. The scheme is to be
known as the Atlantic fntracoastal
canal The upper part Of it viii be
first developed and already il is far
under way. Il begins with the Cape
Cod canal, a sea level ditch less
than eight miles in length, which cuts
the Cape COD peninsula and thus
joins the waters OF Cape Cod bay and
Buzzards bay. adjacent to Long Island
sound This canal has been taken
over by the United States railroad ad-
ministration, and it is to be wideued
and deepened so that It viii make q
short cut for our naval vessels from
New York to Boston. At the same
time It VIII be the water coal chute
FOR q large part OF manufacturing
New England
Includes Rarifan Ditch.
The next link Is the Delaware and
Raritan canal, which runs from New
York bay to the Delaware river. This
also IS in the hands OF the govern
ment and Il will be improved to re-
leve the congestion OF the railroads
from the north TO the south. It IS
estimated that an appropriation Of
100000 VIII enable II to carry a traf-
foe Of 100000 tons per annum.
At the SAINT time q new wide and
deep ship canal has been surveyed By
the army engineers across New Jersey /
almost parallelinE the Delaware and I
Raritzn canal, and this will probably ]
take its place. The cost viii be in /
the neighborhood Of $4,000, 600, but I
the engineers say this viii give Us a ,
sea Level canal wide enough and deep 9
enough for many OF our vessels of /
war and II viii form an inland water !
York
To Chesapeake Bay.
Going southwark from the mouth OF ]
this canal along the Delaware river
we pass Philadelphia and Wilmington.
and then come to the Chesapeake and 4
Delaware canal, which joins this river
with Chesapeake bay. The canal is
less than Il miles long, but II connects
bodies Of inclosed water with a shore
Inns equal to half the distance be-
tween San Francisco and Shanghai IN
China It unites Baltimore with Phil
adelpms, and by the New Jersey canal
above proposed ships can go inland
h.
canal to Boston
The government Is about to acquire
this Il nile ditch It win change Il to
a deep ship canal and improve Il so
that naval vessels coming out OF the
navy yards at Hampton roads may go
inland to the navy yards at Philadel-
phia and on to New York and Boston.
Submarines and our smaller vessels
Of war can be moved back and forth
IN it and the size Of the waterways
may be SO increased that they Will
be available for our big battIeships
Branch to Great Lakes.
Other connections and extensions Of
he Atlantic intracoastal canal are
he new Erie canal to the great lakes
Gently made by New York through
. expenditure Of more than 500. 000,-
%, and the canals going south from
me lower end OF Chesapeake bay from
Norfolk TO Beaufort. y. c. Still far
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across rlor1cas ana the one sliirtingt
The Gulf Of Mexico The latter viii
touch New Orleans and give protected
waterways almost all the way 20
BROWNSVILLE at the mouth Of the Rio
Srande and the Mexican boundary.
A great part Of this waterway Is along
he lines q natural depressious which IN
prenistoric times were under water.
Great Distances Saved.
Prom New York to Boston by way Of
ape COD the distance IS cut from S. 70
81 miles FOR ships going north Of the
iapa. and from Philadelphia and VIII
nington from 81 to los miles The raw
nE from Boston TO Baltimore Is 274
niles, and from New York TO Baltimore ]
80 niles. The saving Of the water dis :
-znce between Philadelphia and Balti-
more viii be 81 miles. This means !
lconomizing the cost Of transportation in {
II kinds Of products. and also an enor-
nous increase in safety By the cutting of
Z dangerous parts o. ehs sea
As % tbs dangers- The route around Z
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