Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-11-26
CanQGliQn'S
Amazing Plan
to Restore
Water Levelc
BY JOHN DICKINSON sHERMAN

SIXTH GREAT LAKE! That's
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nMk4A ny changing the face Of nature He
WFQ HHD has united oceans by canals. He
~ tatns. He has diverted rivers from
49, their beds to water distant cities.
He has reclaimed the desert by
irrigation And now he proposes to create sixth
Grea. Lake in Canada which shall be more than
twice as large as Lake Ontario!
! The man who proposes is G. Lorne Campbell
and he proposes 1.-THE Campbell Plan for the
Restoration of Great Lakes Levels"
Is the Campbell Plan practicable? Let's post
,pone consideration of that question while we wax
enthusiastic over the miraculous timeliness of the
announcement Of the plan. 1t comes at the
psychological moment" as we used to say 1t
could by no human ingenuity be timed better
Let us consider for moment the five Great
Lakes as a sort of common combination rain
barrel, sailing pond, drinking fountain and water
power for a vast Industrial region of two nations.
All of a sudden the people using this common rain
barrel, sailing pond, ETC.. ETC.. discover that the
water is getting lower; that the harbors are con-
aequenty getting shallower; that boats have to
take lighter loads; that more dredging has to be
done, etc, etc. Then they suddenly wake up to
the fact that the Chicago Sanitary District has
reversed the flow OF the Chicago River and is
sending part of Lake Michigan down the Illinois
River into the Mississippi.
SO, naturally, they all cry "stop theft" and
take after Chicago On top of this comes along
1925 with a dry and still further lowers
che water and increases the vehemence of the
'Stop theft" cry. At this very moment the United
States government, the Canadian government at
least FIVE states and unnumbered cities are all try
ing to shut off Chicagos diversion of Lake Mich
gan water.
Chicago, in reply, denies that her diversion Of
Lake Michigan water is the cause Of the lowering
of Great Lakes levels; offers to spend many mil
lions on compensating works; pleads that the
shutting off even reduction of the flow will
bring her face to face with plague, etc. etc.
Really, it makes little difference whether Chicago
is or is not guilty. Her pursuers think she is
and will punish her accordingly if they can--and
that seems quite likely.
And at this very minute as the event is ION the
Gap Of the GODS" along comes the Campbell Plan,
which would restore the Great Lakes levels and
give everybody relief-and save Chicago!
Big and comprehensive as is that international
project affecting the entire Great Lake region, its
main features few and simple that they
can be understood by moments study OF the
accompanying map
The damming of the Albany and Ogoki rivers
would back up their waters to form the New
Great Lake in the Albany Basin which is low
and practically surrounded by heights of land.
The cutting of a two-mile canal would carry the
surplus water from the New Great Lake into
Lake Nipigon, already on the map.
The deepening and canazing of the Nipigon
river would carry on the surplus water from the
New Great Lake into Lake Superior, whence it
would flow by gravity into the other Great Lakes