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Show ) THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH v H - By JOHN DICKINSON ONGRESS SHERMAN. Is the frequent recipient these days of memorials by various organizations 'in support of the Lawrence Tidewater project. I Following is a typical memorial from the State of North Dakota, presented, by Senator Ladd : Whereas it is proposed to make such improvement in the St. Lawrence as to make the Great Lakes accessible to ocean. going commerce; and Whereas this improvement will in effect , the State of North Dakota hundreds of bring miles nearer the worlds markets; and Wl.eieas there are within the State great resources timt lie wholly undeveloped while, the production of all things is diminshed or retarded by distance from markets; and Whereas because our producers and the consuming public have alike suffered enormous losses in tlie last year by transportation shortage auu failure; and . Whereas because by reason of thes'e conditions the transportation situation constitutes an emergent need ; and Whereas a number of States have joined in tlie Great Lakes-St- . Lawrence Tidewater Association, having as its object the early undertaking and completion of this improvement: Therefore be it ' "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of North Dakota, that the Slate oi North Dakota is properly associated in the above-name- d organization with its neighboring Commonwenltks in pressing to advance this undertaking, and that tlie action of the governor in so declaring is hereby approved and confirmed, and the participation of this State by the governor and those who represent him in the council of these States is approved ; "Uesohed, that the representatives of this State in tlie Congress of the United States be lequested to facilitate and expedite in every Wjiy tlie prosecution of this undertaking for tlie economic freedom of a landlocked continent. J he Great Lakes-St- . Lawrence Tidewater association is a voluntary association of 14 member .stales, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska. The first three of these states have aided the movement through state commissions created by their respective legislatures. These states are today in a voluntary effort attempting to impress the nation and congress with the urgent need of adequate transportation facilities at reduced rates, to be provided by the proper development of our inland waterGreat-I.akes-S- t. lAKpS rOMZATfttCBY mrZXAXP hydro-electric- g - er (Scientific American) A JJ0HTRUC Schematic chart of the movement of wheat via the Great Lakes and the railroads to the Atlantic Seaboard and abroad showing how railroad troubles hamper the bulk of this business AMMCAlflOC6AI 'ffiZJCO there Is nothing in the plan or scope of the enterprise which goes beyond well established engineering precedent, or calls for constructions that are experimental, and regarding whose ultimate cost there is any serious doubt; that the opening' of this great water-wa- y by cunal, canal-- . ized river,- - and deepened channel, thereby enabling a deep-se- a ship to load at Duluth and not break open her hatches until she reached Hamburg, Loudon or Marseilles, is as certain of being taken in hand as it is that the sun will rise daily. So it asks: , Why not today? The project is an international one. Canada, at its own expense (about $50,000,000) Is reconstructing the Welland canal between Lakes Erie and Ontario, in order to give ocean-goin- g ships access to Lake Erie. Thanks to the enterprise of Canada, the problem broadly reduces itself to submerging certain rapids lying in the international waters of tlie St. Lawrence river between Lake Ontario and St. Regis, and then dealing in a similar way with that stretch of the river exThe estitending from St. Regis to Montreal. mated cost of the- - international river improvement is $60,000,000 and of the Canadian river, $50,000i-00The establishment of power plant sites would entail additional expense. An argument brought forward for the project Is that it saves distance. From Duluth through vessel the distance the Detroit river by deep-dra- ; had incorporated into the rivers and harbors act a provision requesting tlie international joint commission to investigate what further improvement of the St. Lawrence river, between Montreal and Lake Ontario, is necessary to make the same navigable for ocean-goin- g vessels, together with the estimated cost thereof, and report to the government of the Dominion of Canada and to the congress of the United States, with its recommendations, for by the United States with tlie Dominion of Canada in the Improvement of said river. The result is that the engineers appointed by the two governments have been for some time engaged in the making of surveys and the preparation of plans and estimates for the lnformatiou The commission has been of the commission. bolding a series of public hearings, at which national. state, provincial, municipal, commercial, transportation, and other bodies interested have presented their views as to the desirability or otherwise of the suggested deep waterway and the advantages and disadvantages of combining power development with the improvement of navigation on tlie upper St. Lawrence. Following will be found a brief statment of the main features of the project The writer holds no brief for or against It. ' There are two phases to the project: One is transthe opening, up of Great portation;'' The other is the establishment, in connection 'with the work of great plants for the energy to be disgeneration of tributed over a radius of about 250 miles. At present the navigation and power projects are being considered as one. The demand of tlie Middle West is for water This demand, in a nutshell, is transportation. that the Great I.akea be opened to the sea so that ocean-goincraft diawing from 20 to 25 feet can steam from Duluth to the Atlantic and thence along the seaboard of the western hemisphere or across seas to the maikets of Europe. The Middle West argues this way. The measure of the countrys productiveness depends in large measure upon the expeditious movement of its enormous and" growing volume of freight. This ' movement of freight is t present slowed up by tlie congested condition of the railroads and east-er-a Additional and supplemental terminals, m'ens of distribution are necessary. In short, the Middle West must be brought within touch of the Atlantic seaboard, without breakage of bulk, delay and additional terminal charges. In this demand the Midlle West means the heart of the nation, with about one third of the territory, population and wealth. holds that great and costly The Middle-Wes- t Is entirely feasthough the enterprise may be, It the of engineer; that the standpoint from ible Lakes-Tidewat- ZZZCmiC RADIUS -- 0 pos-sib- .e ways. The Great Lakes-St- . Lawrence Tidewater project has been discussed for several years. Progress was interrupted in 1914 by the World war. March 2, 1919, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, imno . (he locks. Assuming i that an ocean vessel ' has passed Lakes to Superior or Duluth and has the through loaded a cargo of western grain and is sailing for Liverpool, the first leg of the journey, the length of Lake Superior, will lie 383 miles of open navigation. Tiien comes tlie St. Mary river, 63 miles long. This is all open navigation, except 33 miles, which is Improved river channel and a canal 1.6 miles with one lockage. Past this restricted channel the vessel will have 220 miles of free sailing through the deep water of Lake pass restricted channel inAhe St. Clair river, 13 Vi miles of open and 3.5 miles of restricted navigation in Lake St. Clair, and 22 miles of open and miles of improved navigation in the. Detroit rivet AK'dn, it will have free nav S SY YMTIH UAH. FIGURES DENOTE VOLUME, in millions of bushels, of WHEAT MOVtMtNT ANNUALUT BY A AS OCTCRMiNtO THHCloVXAft AVEftAML. IT IS THE Of THE RAIL MOVEMENT AT A OUR EASTER PORTS WHICH PROMOTES CQNOCSTlON. rtw or J ' igation on the great expanse of deep water of Lake Erie for 219 miles. It passes 25 miles of the Welland canal, with its seven locks, and then has 160 miles more of deep water and open navigation' across Lake Ontario. It has 182 miles from Lake Ontario to Montreal, but of this distance only about 20 miles are canal navigation. At present there are 46 miles of canals, but In navi-- . the proposed improvement, with slack-watgation behind tiid dams, there would be less than 20 miles of restricted channel. Down the St. Lawrence river to Belle isle, a distance of 1,003 miles, ships navigate regularly today, and the route offers no great obstacles during eight months of the year. From Belle isle to Liverpool there is. of course, the ocean crossing of 2,186 statute miles of open navigation. Less than 74 miles of improved channel and 50.1 miles of canals would d interrupt steaming from Superior, Duluth, Milwaukee or Chicago to England. The bar- riers that now separate the farms and cities jf the ' great West and Middle West from the ocean can be overcome by channels not as long nor ns difficult to navigate as the Panama canal, the Kiel canal, or the Suez canal, and would cost only a fraction of tlie expense of construction. The possibilities of the development of hydroelectrical power are , large. The normal mean flow of the St. Lawrence at its outlet from Lake Ontario is 240,000 second-fee- t. There is between the head of the rapids pear Ogdensburg, N. Y., and the foot df the lowest rapid at the City of Montreal a total fail of 221 feet. If 70 per ceut of the power can be realized, the development would amount to over four million horse-poweS.The first 113 miles of the river from its outlet from Lake Ontario is international that is, It constitutes the boundary between the two countries. The fall in this section, confined to about forty-tw- o feet ; the power posmiles, is ninety-tw- o sibilities of this section on the same basis would be d million horse-poweone and . practically of this would be . Canadian and Normally one-haone-haUnited States. It would seemj therefore, that the minimum power that may be developed from the St. Lawrence and distributed through ' northern New York and New England would he r. It is not eight hundred thousand unlikely, however, that in the final bargaining between the two countries the United States may assume some of the expense of improvement below the international section of the river and in return receive more power. In an address hy Alexander T. Vogelsang, first assistant secretary of the Interior, before the river and harbor congress of 1919, read into the Congressional Record, these statements are made among others: The United States share of the St. Lawrence river power would have an annual value of about $12,000,000.' Much of New England is within a transmission distance of 250 miles.. This power is the equivalent of 7,750.(KX) tons of coal annually. This power would furnish sufficient energy io supply a large pint of the power now generated by fuel In this dominant .Industrial- district. The power production will pay the entire cost of all the project. With tlie enlarged, Welland canal available, with the proposed dams and their great locks built, big cargo carriers of many thousands of tons could traverse the whole length of the St. Lawrence to and from Lake Erie. With improved facilities at tlie Soo and deeper channels through the Lakes here and there, Duluth, Superior, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo and other lake ports, would have an unhampered outlet to the ocean. So says the Middle r. , Flavor Lasts QcienHie American) f full-spee- ft , (Y MOVtritNT er Is 693 miles. Following is an extract from an official statement read Into the Congressional Record by Representative John M. Nelson of Wisconsin: With only two barriers removed, even the present depth of channels and hiirbors of 21 feet will enable large numbers of ocean vessels to steam directly to the ports of the Great Lakes. The two barriers are the St. Lawrence river rapids and the Niagara Falls. The burner of the Nlugara Falls Is already being overcome by the Canadians in the reconstructed Welland canal. The difference of lake level will be overcome by seven locks In the new Welland canal In a distance of 25 miles. These lock chambers will be 1.000 feet long, 80 feet wide, and will have lock sills sunk to a depth of 30 feet, ilia will permit the passage of vessels of 28 feet draft when the channels are dredged to 30 feet. From the Welland canal to the foot of Lake Ontario there are 160 miles of straight sailing and then open navigation in the wide St. Lawrence river. Out of the total of 182 miles to Montreal, there are 19 miles of improved channels, with at present 46 miles of canal. With this project, with dams and six locks of 800 feet in length, 80 feet in breadth, and a possible depth : of 30 feet with slack water, midstream navigation would reduce the total canal and lock navigation to 20 miles or less. The proposal is to build dams across the river with locks In tlie dams. Vessels navigating, the river will not pass through narrow canals around the rapids, as they do now in the present Canadian canals, but will sail majestically a own the center of tlie stream in slack water produced by the dams and pass from level to level through - , MOVtHEMT , two-thir- r, lf lf SEES FRANCE And with the mighty St. Lawrence harnessed for power purposes and the energy distributed through industrial New York and New England many problems that affect the cost of living would he made easier of solution. So say the promoters of the St. Lawrellce-Tidewo- e project. OBJECT LESSON WAS SPOILED AGAIN Seeress Also Points Out That Present One Small Pupil at Least Misunderv stood Just What' Teacher Had Leaders Are Reincarnation of Intended to Impress. Countrys Great Men. Considerable attention is W ing paid to the revelations of Marguerite. Volf, who predicts that France uiil have a king in 15 years, and that the divinity will appear in France, observes tjje Living Age. M. Clemencenu is a reincarnation of Robespierre, d M. of Louis XIV. Maur re Barres was once Danton. Debussy was not only Mozart, but also Michael Angelo d and Peter the Great. Paul Adam,tlie fine French writer who rece tly died, was, in former life, Socrates. Regularly Mile. Volf summons to her the great men of history presumably those who are not reincarnated such She as Pindar, Homer and Plutarch. is compelled to spend 12,000 francs a year for candles and Inceiyse in or-(to preserve the right vibratory atmosphere which makes possible these revelations. Sans commentaire. er . The Real Sport. The father who doesnt take his small boy to a baseball game now and. then is missing a world of pleasure, and at the same time losing one of lifes real opportunities to become acquainted with his son. e The teacher was fond of the young principal and it was often rumored that he was engaged to her. They managed to keep it a secret from the children, yet most of them were suspicious. One way she showed her affection was by tie way she with, him in all his pet schemes. So when he started a movement against smoking she promptly began to help him out. First she demanded that all her boys who smoked bring to her all the tobacco they had in their pockets. They did it and it was a goodly supply. 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