New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-09-30
WOULD LINK UP
OCEAN AND
DENVER BUSINESS MEN HEAR
PLANS TO BUILD BIG
WATER WAY.
TO SHIP BY WATER
ASSOCIATION FORMED TO BUILD
CANALS AND CONNECT
OCEAN TO LAKES.
,Ws.t,rn Newspaper Union Ns.. se,lcs,

Denver.-One hundred and fifty rep
resentatiye business men of Denver
heard Charles l.. Craig, executive di-
rector Of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Tidewater Association, and William l..
Harding, former governor of Iowa, de-
clare that the salvation of the states
west of Chicago lay in bringing the At
lantlc ocean inland as n transportation
means for products of these states.
IL was explained that this movement
inland of the ocean was simply the
linking up of the ocean with The great
lakes 80 there could be direct ship
Inents from lake ports To foreign
ports, and ii was pointed out by them
that this meant cheaper transportation
and an outlet for the products of these
states.
Mr.. Craig explained the physical
makeup of the Tidewater association,
which has sixteen states as members,
and how 1t is managed by a council of
states comprising men from each of
these states. The governments of the
United States and Canada, he said,
have had under consideration the pro
posal to construct canals and to deep
en- waterways so that ocean-going YES
sells could ply between the lake ports
and the Atlantic ocean, with Montreal
as the Atlantic port.
Each of these countries appointed a
special board of engineers To 90 over
tho arnSn.t M. l,,l, 49,.
ly and prepared their reports and then
held a joint meeting. 1t was then dis
closed that they were united on the
feasibility OF the plan, and that each
had three routes outlined with a rec
~ommendation of one. In all these they
were the I'M
This shows conclusiyely the feast
bility Of the PLAN" remarked Mr..
Craig.
Mr.. Craig explained that the plan
generally conceived az the best, and
the n which the engineers had
recommended, would cost S2JO,OOO,O 900
for a fifty-foot channel. 1t means the
connecting of the great lakes. Can
ada is now building "A new ship canal
To take the place of the Welland
canal, To cost 100000, 900, and it is
part OF the tidewater plan.
From Montreal to the head of the
st. Lawrence river, connecting Lake
Ontario, the distance is 1S3 miles. The
seventy miles is open water,
then fOrty-three miles of rapids. En-
propose n dam that will raise
water over these rapids to the
level. Then there is six
Of the river To Lake Francis,
then thirty-six miles open water to
which call for Il canal eight.
zen miles In length. Mr.. Craig traced
The progress to within nine miles of
open harbor with IA canal.
Mr.. Craig took up the economic side
# the proposal, showing that the con-
'truction of this waterway would I
mean a saving Of 10 cents a bushel on '
to the Colorado producer, and !
that copper from Montana is :
Ihipped now first to the Pacific coast, .
hen by water through the Panama
anal around to Perth Amboy. n. j., V
o the refinery. and that OF this route '
rom 81 70 IS n ton in freight charges d
5 saved. c
The plan includes the construction :"
{ a power station of fifty-two wheels {
hat would produce 1,S0O,OOO horse.
over. and this, said Mr.. Craig. had "
cen shown by experts TO be capable q
( paying the cost OF construction OF :
his waterway. ="