The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-10-19

Lawrence projects.
Gan inventory of what has been ac-
complished, what is in the way OF &C
complishment and what is in i'm
mediate contemplation, will astonish
those who have not kept closely in
formed"
Mr. Craig, executive director of the
Great LakeS-St. Lawrence Tidewater
Association, made this assertion Tues
day evening at the annual meeting of
| the Duluth Chamber of Commerce
and backed it with the facts. 4 *
while it is to be remembered that
the correspondence does not commit
the government, Canada and the
United States have agreed Gin prin-
ton of details and always subject to
approval of congress and parliament,
as to the division of the burden.
Canada offers to do all the work
| within Canada if the United States
| will do everything in the boundary
waters and Secretary Kellogg has &C
copied it as fair proposal
Canada then would finish the new
Welland, improve the section from the
boundary at Cornwall to Montreal
and maintain the channel from Mon
| treal to the ocean.
1.-The United States for its part
would deepen the upper lake channels,
| including new lock at the 500, and
make the improvements from Lake
Ontario to the boundary at st. Regis,
New York -.
"Crediting each government with
past expenditures, it would foot up
$274 100000 for Canada and $245, 000,-
900 for the United States, of which
on Canada's side $123 100000 is for
new projects and on our side $201,-
100000 is new. r..
Fair enough for starting point
at least.
Canada has already nearly finish
ed the new Welland which is to be
opened in 1880 whether or no. The
big undertaking in the province OF
Quebec is self financing. The province
has given a franchise, subject only to
confirmation by the dominion govern
ment, to power syndicate which is
| to make the improvement for naviga-
| ton as part compensation. There re-
mains for Canada only one new pro-
ject estimated at $50 100000 and that
also may be Offset by power develop
| ment.
ION our side half the cost of deep
ening the upper lake channels will be
covered by projects already recon-
mended and the channel improve
ments in the st. Lawrence for the first
IS miles, as far down as Ogdensburg,
are also on the approved list.
On the Hesitation Point.
"But, the Canadians say, they won't
export power-which of course is their
highland they don't wish to develop
power faster than they can absorb it.
So the international section would
better be left till the rest is done.
Secretary Kellogg has what seems
to be a good answer to that We want
| to develop our share of the power as
soon as possible. Answering that NE
United States takes over the job in
the international section, why not go
| ahead? We can develop the power
that belongs to us and Canada can
develop hers when she gets ready.
The dams will be there and it won't
cost Canada anything for carrying
charges. Isn't that fair?
There are questions, of course.
There will be bitches in the engineer
| ing plans to be Strengthened out.
There are matters in Canada between
| the provinces and the Dominion.
There are stumbling blocks, including
Chicago diversion and other Great
Lakes problems.
"But the two countries are so near
| together, have conceded so exactly in
| the outlines of the agreement, that
Secretary Kellogg's last suggestion, in
his note of March IL, looks altogether
reasonable:
"That the two countries proceed
with, the appointment of commission
ers to discuss jointly the problems
presented. with view to the for
mutation. of convention appropriate
to the subject"
- Many Mile Posts Passed.
Mr.. Craig briefly reviewed the situa-
ton in the Mississippi valley-"demo-
ted" he called it. "Marooned" as he
described it. Further from market
than formerly while the coasts have
been brought nearer together
ct Is a transportation problem.
And extending the ocean 1000 to l.
400 miles inland is the longest sim
gle step that can be taken in solving
not only the agricultural but the in
uuStrhdi ucSChOphChs Va o AAuuao
west"
He analysed it as a diplomatic,
financial and an engineering PROPOSE
ton. He told how the engineering
costs and factors had been deter
mined. How the economic case had
been proved. How the reports had
been accepted by both governments.
He gave the elimination in the re-
cent exchange of diplomatic notes
which marks the initial step in the
new phase, namely "def1nitive negotia-
| ton"
Canada we have a definite state
ment of the basis on which an agree
| ment may be negotiated and from
Secretary Kellogg the definite accep-
lance of the proposed basis and the
definite proposal that agents be ap-
pointed at once to work out the de-
tails.
| MANY problems arise-none of
them insurmountable. They are either
solved or approaching solution. That
great progress has been made, nobody
will deny.
An Unfinished fash.
cit is still necessary to point out
that the lakes-to-ocean project is not
in competition with any inland water
ways. Inland waterways do not COM
pete with ocean routes, they supple
ment them The internal ways, the
railways and waterways lead to the
ocean port. Extension OF the ocean
route creates new business for them.
"It is still necessary to keep up the
fight against the efforts of New York
to substitute their barge canal for the
ship channel. The work of the asso-
citation is not finished so long as the
determined, financed, bitter, self
fish, partisan opposition persists in
the state of New York.