Show the erie barge canal while the erie barge canal willcott will cost about one third of the estimated cost of the panama canal the magnitude of the work woric exceeds that at panama the present erie erfe canal is about miles long and of this dis tance the barge canal follows the old route for only 24 2 per cent or 84 nilles miles for the other ago odd miles the canal is laid out or on what Is practically another other route following the rivers arid and lakes an old route of travel by water which was used by the pioneers who settled the western part of the state |