Show I Other Points of View of UNLOCKING G TIlE THIS GREAT T LAKES L. To appreciate tho the probable Importance of oC a a. L deep waterway wa S from tho the great lakes to tho the Be sta aei It Is IB necessary to have o somo Bomo Idea of ot tho the ph phenomenal growth o of commerce S Sto on tho great lakes In 1850 tho the entire volume of 0 on the great lakes amounted to about tons carried I by a handful of at small draft vessels In 1910 there were were passages of or vessels through tho the Detroit river with Mth I a tonnage of ot over ovar 7 carrying carrying- tons of at freight of or an estimated value of at something over These totals wore slightly reduced In Ir L 1317 1917 and 1918 owing to causes arI out of ot tho war aI but thero there aro arc already Indications that they will bo be greatly great ly Iy exceeded within the tho next few ew years What proportion I of ot this enormous traffic many times greater than that annually passing through tho the Suez canal would find its It I way to and from tho the seaboard by way of or tho the St S1 Lawrence is a moot point on which there thero aro are very wide wido differences of ot opinion But hut as a largo larg-e argo percentage of or both eastbound L and west westbound bound traffic 1 la at present subject to tra transship trans transshipment Ip- Ip ment at nt Buffalo and other ports on th tho lower lakes hakes there would seem Beem to bo be moro more than sufficient traffic available a for Cor a route that would enable shipments to bo made without without with with- out breaking bulk to offset oUtlet th the cost of or the proposed water water- way The Tho Tho Review I |