The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-05-28
City Manager Back From
Waterway Meet Enthus-
ed With Plans.
WOULD HELP KENOSHA
Says Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
Waterway Would Help in Flu
ture Growth of KenOsha.

Kenosha should continue it's support
to the movement for the Great Lakes
st. Lawrence Waterway, according to
City Manager c. M Osborn who has
just returned from the convention
held at Michigan City, where repre-
sentatives of hundreds of cities in the
Middle West gathered to discuss the
big project. Mr.. Osborn, in comment
ing on the convention, declared this
morning that it had revealed many
reasons why Kenosha would be bene-
fitted in large way by the waterway
project and had put a challenge to
this city to join in the movement for
the early completion of the waterway
"This means real waterway to the
sea for Kenosha," said Mr.. Osborn
eve have heard great deal about
making Kenosha an ocean port and
we have thought of it as being far in
the future. The convention showed
that it is not so far in the future if
cities like Kenosha will only get back
of the movement and boost"
Want Bigger Waterway.
At present there is a fourteen-foot
deep waterway which allows the
smaller sea going vessels to come
through. to the lake ports. Recently
two Danish and Norwegian ships
brought cargoes to Chicago demon
strating that the plan is most feasible,
1t is rev being asked that the deep
waterway be enlarged to 25-foot
draft which would allow nearly any
ship to pass through into the lakes.
The plans presented at the confer
ence showed that such a waterway
could be made self-supporting. 1t is
proposed that the United States and
Canadian governments underwrite the
project with an idea that the bonds
could be redeemed through the income
from the waterway and that great
benefit to the entire middle west
would be brought about.
Shows Value of Plan.
"The smaller boats which have al
ready been brought all the way
through have demonstrated the great
value of such waterway" declared
Mr. Osborn. Zone of these carried a
cargo of clay from England to a pot
terry concern in Michigan City, Indi-
ana. The fact that this clay did not
have to be unloaded and loadad again
cut the shipping rate on it perceptib-
ly. This was reflected Immediately in
cut in railroad freight offered by the
railways"
ut has been shown that the water
way would cut the cost of delivering
wheat from the middle west to Liver
pool from to cents bushel. If
the farmer here could get the benefit
of that, it would mean much to the
continued development of the great
middle west. The cut in costs for
carrying clay and wheat would not in
terest Kenosha so much as the cut
that would come in shipping of auto
mobiles, beds, leather, brass and 9TH
er articles exported by Kenosha man
ufacturers, which would also come
with the establishment of the water
way"
Will Present it to Council.
City Manager Osborn added that he
was convinced that the waterway
would mean much for the expansion
of Kenosha and that he would recon-
mend to the council that this city take
whatever steps are needed to show
that it is in favor of the movement
A formal report of the convention
will be presented to the council at an
early meeting.
More than three hundred cities of
the middle west were represented at
the convention. The interest is not
confined to lake port cities but ex-
tends as much to communities in the
interior as these will also be bene-
fitted by the project.