Show i MANCHESTER Si SHIP IP CANAL Now Open for Use Ule by Largest Ll Steam Steam- ships The Manchester ship canal is now open for traffic it i is a remarkable I enterprise which will m make ke Manchester Manches Manches- ManchesI I ter a seaport from this date as the tho largest seagoing ing steam steamships hips can pass through the canal With the use of of electric light steamers will be able to to navigate by night as well as by day and the whole length of the canal will be traversed in about ten hours j 1 Some notion of the capacity of the canal may be drawn when wo we compare its depth with the Su Suez Suz z and Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam Amster Amster- dam canals The minimum width of the bottom of the Suez is two seventy-two feet and o of ot the Amsterdam eighty eighty- eight feet seven inches whir while that of oi the l he is i 20 f Ot t. t The minT minimum depth of t ti the l Ia Manchester chester and Suez waterways i is twenty-six twenty feet and that of the Amsterdam cana canal twenty-eight twenty feet It is believed the quantity qU of grain carried over the canal till ill be at least one-half one of that now landed d d at Liverpool Liver Liver- pool it is estimated j 1 that at least tons per annum of fruit and vegetables will at once fe imported to Manchester by this route With regard to raw botton firms in inthe inthe inthe the district owning spindles spindles spin spin- dies declare that nearl nearly all the tho cotton they use will be brought by the canal Of outward cargos argos there th re will be no lack and textile manufacturers have testified to their belief that thai about tons per annum will be dis dispatched dispatched I patched by the new c canal The financial financial financial finan finan- cial success of this enormous undertaking undertaking undertaking under under- taking seems seems' to be bo assured d. d The promoters promoters pro pro- of the canal ire dro are confident of their ability to secure a large end and re remunerative remunerative ye- ye traffic and the est estimates l ate of profit based upon the thee capital pital as originally origInally originally proposed were very iery very favorable The Tho original capital of has lias however now grown drown to nearly double that amount and the a anticipations anticipations of profit are not now so sanguine as they formerly were were That there are however enormous probabilities of traffic cannot be bo disputed ed |