Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-11
LEGATION FOR
)EEP WATERWAY
dysmith Would Be Benefited
By Opening Great Lakes
To Ocean Traffic
OULD GIVE RELIEF y
o RAILWAY CONGESTION
lOVal of Barrier i'm st. Lawrence
Would Make of Lakes an Amer
lean Mediterranean

lean Mediterranean
dysmith was the only inland city
scented by delegation at the
ag at Superior Monday before the
national Joint High Commission
e proposed deepening of the st.
ence river to admit ocean steam
to the ports on the great lakes.
ming of the proposed deep water
strenuously opposed by New
and other eastern ports, which
OnStitute the meek of the bottle
IN which all imports must come.
reSults in the congestion of freight
east and is Il big factor in the
lge of cars, for the miles upon
Of loaded cars of export goods
ill nearly every siding for from
to One-hundred and fifty miles
from the coast, waiting to get to
-ater and be unloaded, are prac-
V serving as warehouses rather
as carriers of freight.
le relief from this congestion that
Ia be afforded by opening the st.
renee to ocean shipping is not the
important argument, however, III
or of the project 1t would stop a
70 part of the great economic loss
" caused by unnecessary breaking
hulk. at the Atlantic Sea-bOard, and
mSportatiOn hundreds OF miles by
Il of merchandise destined to the
at lakes region. 1t would make the
e region independent of price die
ION from the eastern importers and
lolesalers. by making the lake cities
ect ports of entry to foreign com
rec.
An example of waste that would be
pped by removing the barrier to
.an traffic that the rapids OF the st.
Wrpncc now constitute is the re-
ted loading and unloading of export
eat. Shipped by rail to the head
the lakes. we will say, from the
5otaS. the wheat is unlOaded from
: info the elevators, where it is
med graded and loaded into lake
1nprs. After carrying the grain to
.folO it is unlOaded and loaded INTO
:. for shipment by rail. or into
.sas. for shipment via canal, TO New
*. At New York it must again be
dpd into steamers to he shipped
.oad. Both grower and the ultimate
sumner lose by the unnecessary loss
labor above shown as well as by the
nal shrinkage loss from repeated
Idling
That the admission of ocean traffic to
lakes would benefit everyone III the
ceuQtry was cOnclusively shown
the various speakers who appeared
ore the commission.
". A. Blackburn was the spokesman
the Iadysmith delegation. which
y included ]. l.. McCorisOn. F. w.
81. !. A. MichaclsOn. c. j. Dregne
Il the publisher Of the NewS-Budget.
RS. blackburn also spent the day in
lpcrior
Sppaking for the city of Ladysmith
N it's trade territory adjacent. Mr..
,ackburn pledged the support OF TINS
ion i'm favor Of the deep waterway
thp sea and. continuing. said:
Upper Wisconsin is perhaps primar-
Il dairy region although its manu-
,ctured product at this time is OF no
lean Importance and this is also true
our Immediate locality. While we
fr vet in developing stage, let me
nv that the product from our manu-
lcturing industries are today belhs
hipped to all parts of the world. They
onsist principally of lumber, paper
ulnhitc. furniture. cOOperage stock
nd dairy products. Although these
70 small as compared with the Worlo
ut,ut. we might, as side light. state
NAT i'm 1915 we had in Rusk county two
rpamerieS and two cheese factories
lille today we have five creamerieS
nd twenty-five cheese factories, VIII
,ore under construction. To indicate
mother angle of this development. RuSF
omty in 1920 has put on gigantic
and clearing contest and more cN
Iosive for land clearing has alread!
cen bought this year than was used IL
ne entire state of Minnesota for llk'
drpOse i'll 1917.
'.Gcntlemen, unless we have trans
ortation this vital development mus
,aSe.
"As we have the natural resource
dairyinS. we have also the natura
source for manufacturing, namel,
@ water powers of the great Flam
an and Chippewa rivers-the Whit
nj of Commerce. AS these powers ar
veloped. our manufactured produc
export must increase, and as con
mence our transportation facilitie
st be extended.
1T needs no argument at this time t
press anyone with the problem tha