Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-10-12
100000 SAVING
SEEN IN WATERWAY
Opening Great Lakes to Ocean Ships
Would Pay Cost of Project
Says Farm Leader

Great LakeS-St. Lawrence waterway TO
ocean ships would mean a saving OF
100000 a year to \ ,snesota grain
farmers alone, speakers tclared at the
Minnesota tidewater conyBsss here last
week. =. i
" The waterway project, enStimated to
cost $3.50 100000 to $270,C- 900, would
add at least $1OO,OO0OO0 tqthe wealth
of the northwest and cenenI west an
nually through lowered deportation
costs, the convention w:"'ceold. +: Inc
meeting was called by CO. sepr }. A. y.
Preus at the request OF A---Mlnnesota
Tidewater association, ass at OF a uni
fed movement. in 16 STRIVE TO optalii
favorable congressional +----. III on the
proposal to make the ';h' sc Lakes all
arm Of the Atlantic ocf
. Z Governor, .Preus, in tenosng@ the con-
ference. said that ,busffncs,ss Interests in
New York state, for selfish reasons; are
furnishing almost the only OPPOSITION 'ls
to the project. He predicted that over
'lwiielming public sentiment IN the states
IIy8 concerned in obtaining tower
freight rates ~ winter ts;allsItal ta tl 40
Wotfltt per stack. 4t3lis fess
sary steps to open the channel 10 the
Great Lakes. =, -
"Vaterpower alone that will be de-
yeloped by opening the waterway VIII
nav Americas share of the cost III oo
Years" J. w. Coverdale, secretary OF
the American Farm Bureau federation,
said in addressing the 400 delegates.
"Opening the lakes to ocean vessels
means millions of dollars to the farm
ers of the northwest. The price a farih-
er gets for his products IS their price
at the market place where the world $
currents of trade meet. minus the COST
of transporting his products to thae
mace, 1t is estimated that the opening
of the Great Lakes to ocean ships would
enable farmers to ship their gram from
the northwest to Liverpool at cost OF
10 cents a bushel less than present
rates.
what such a reduction in frelsht
CHARGES means to farmers in the north
and middle west is apparent when we
realize that 50 percent OF all the asrl-
cultural products Of the United STATES
are raised in the 16 states vltally con
cerned in the development OF the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence water route.
:.This route would bring the Atlantic
| 200 miles closer to Minnesota, ana en-
able the farmers of the northwest to
compete with cheaply produced crops
from Australia and the Argentine. we
cannot compete with them now because
of high railroad rates"
C. G. Selvig, superintendent OF the
Northwest School of Agriculture, point
ed out that the expansion of farming IN
Minnesota may result in producing an
annual grain crop of 800, 900 bushels
in this state alone. ~. .z='st
IF only one-tenth of that grain NOV
ed east by water, at a rate 10 cents 9
bushel lower than present freight costs,
we would have saving Of 5000, 600 a
wear for Minnesota farmers" he said.
| Carl D. Jackson, member Of the WIS.
consins railway commission, said that
water power developed In completing
the water way project would eventually
take the place of 25,O00,O00 tons of coal
and help to conserve the fuel resources
of the country.
1.-THE cost of the Great Lakes-St- Law
renee waterway will be small" he said,
..in comparison with the amount that
would be required to make our railroad
facilities as adequate as the water
route"