The Raymer enterprise., 1921-09-29
DENVER BUSINESS MEN HEAR
PLANS TO BUILD BIG
WATER WAY,
70 ship BY WATER
ASSOCIATION FORMED TO BUILD
CANALS AND CONNECT
OCEAN TO LAKES.
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Denver.-One hundred and fifty rep
resentative business men OF Denver
heard Charles r. Craig. executive d.
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
lantic ocean inland us a transportation
means for products Of these states.
1t was explained that this movement
Inland Of the ocean was simply the
linking UP Of the ocean with the great
lakes so there could be direct ship
ments from lake ports to foreign
ports, and 1t 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 It is managed by 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 ves-
selS 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 60 over
the project The boards met separate
ly and prepared their reports and then
held 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
0mmendatiOn Of one. In all these they
were the same.
This shows concluslyely the FEAST
billty Of the plan," remarked Mr..
Craig.
Mr. Craig explained that the plan
generally conceived as the best, and
the one which the engineers had
recommended, would cost $3.50, ,OOO,O 600
for fifty-foot channel. 1t means the
connecting Of the great lakes. Can
ada is now building new ship canal
to take the place Of the Welland
canal, to cost $1OO,OOO.O0O. and 1t 10
part of the tidewater plan.
From Montreal to the head Of the
st. Lawrence river. connecting Lake
| Ontario. the distance is 1873 miles. The
first seventy miles is open water,
then forty-three miles Of rapids. En-
gineers propose dam that will raise
the water over these rapids to the
Ontario level. Then there Is six
miles of the river to Lake Francis.
then thirty-six miles open water to
rapids. which call for a canal eight.
cen miles In length. Mr.. Craig traced
the progress to within nine miles Of
Montreal's open harbor with canal.
Mr.. Craig took up the economic side
Of the proposal, showing that the con-
struction Of this waterway would
mean a saving Of 10 cents a bushel on
grain p R0rado producer, and
show r from Montana ID
ship Igy the Pacific coast,
then mo bugh the Panama
canal erth Amboy, N. j.,
to the lhd that on this route
from 81 to - ton in freight charges
is saved.
The plan includes the construction
Of a power station Of fifty-two wheels
that would produce 1.800.000 horse.
power. and this, said Mr.. Craig, had
been shown by exnerts to be camille