Show i 1 i U. U S. S and Canada Consider Plan to N Open Great Lakes to Ocean Vessels j 7 M LIls I 1 V i- i I 0 i r. r n d A tit r r 0 OfT r A At t f a-f 4 to t 1 be rM r 1 t rw 1 i t X I aw l l t o I y t k DET t 1 t r I y 1 h 0 L rma t 1 s CHICAGO j a Or t 1 f It a tJ v J I I I J. J r I crap showing s steps in opening p e snip ship p way irom the tue Lakes aK I S to the Atlantic i iI 1 1 11 1 Soo Canal connecting Lake Sn- Sn Su-J Su perlor and Lake Huron completed at al r cost of or I f 2 Deeping St. St Clair Glair Flats and Detroit river connecting connecting- Lake Huron and I Lake Jake ako Erie completed at cost of or i 3 C Canal connecting Lake e Krio and Lake Lako Ontario and avoiding Niagara Falls soon to 0 be completed at cost or Of 6 4 Indicated by y dotted line Unc Proposed j I Improvements In St. St Lawrence to com com- comI j I the ship wa way r to lo tho the ocean distance dis- dis j I tance lance miles international boundary o rest in Canadian territory 1 cost estimated at to j I Ibe Chief problem hero stat stated d to tobe tobe be about tort forty miles of or rapids rapids- I Ithe Washington Special Opening up uh the tho St. St Lawrence river to 10 connect tout our I inland ports and the thc Atlantic seaboard 1 with tho the Great Lakes acc accessible to i ocean going steamers is la a project now j being considered by 11 t the b o ns s o of Canada an and the United Stat States The Thc venture has aroused national common Western estern states stales favor faor It lt H. H but bul there thero uie ule those tn In X New York fork who ho insist that the j I project Is an effort on on the thc part of or C Canada Canada Can Can- mada m- m j ada to divert tho the grain rain clr cargoes oes no no shipped to American merlean cities clUes via Ia the New NewYork NewYork cw I York state stale barge canal nal to Canadian lake and sea ports The supporters of or orthe I the northern waters wilt will rebound to to I Ithe the plan contend that tho the opening n up tip I I of oC the northern waters will redound J to the tho Interest of both nations i 1 According to a advocates oca es of or the project pro pro- I j nature suggested Sugs a L second Med Med- ed- ed j i in the la laying out o of the i Great L But Fut It Lt was only a 1 rough I sketch with a chain chain of or of barriers between between be be- tween this great reat bod body of or inland water I and the open sea eca that seemed to make mala the tho suggestion sUbs Ironic Straight across I the path of tho the proposed undertaking roars Niagara Ia ara Falls uttering a don den she e negative c to the idea of or an ocean highway ha Other noteworthy barriers were forty miles of ot rapids In tho the St St. Lawrence rence the shallows connecting mite Lako Erie and Lake Huron the the- falls In St. St Marys Mary's river connecting connecting- Lake Superior and Lake Huron 1 T Ter eser er Barriers n C Conquered d Stop Step by st stop p as tho the middle west filled up and the press pressure pressure- ro of ot its projects projects projects pro pro- turn turned d toward tho the lakes the lesser lesser losser les los ser barriers have been conquered the greatest g one of or all Niagara Itself will I soon oon be circumvented b by the genius of or man All 11 these have in a sense been I piecemeal propositions The great reat conception conception con con- t I to make the thc cities of or the thc lal lake e I seaports seaports to to brin bring all that section ad adjacent ad- ad jacent to the seacoast projects But now plans tal taking in their inspiration from all the o possibilities of or this conception conception con con- are nrc to o force Coree themselves on the attention o of the country countr especially on I tho the east backed b by extensive organization organ organ- and directed by b a definite organ organ-I pur pur- pose It Its promoters call can it the tho most I f I 1 re nit nr hl before t W b p 1 the thU world id today d II Thus Thus- Thus far far the east eat has only onh heard a faint echo The international joint I commission authorized b by tho the last I Congress to investigate what further improvement of or the St St. Lawrence river between Montreal and I Lake le Ontario is to make the stream navigable navigable able lule for ocean going vessels vessel held ld meetings in New cw York Tork the other da day without an any attention from the newspapers newspapers news news- papers but from Crom now on the undertaking undertaking under under- taking in Its vast double scope sope an an I ocean highway from the lakes to the I sea sea the creation of or horse horsepower horsepower horsepower power power In In tho the St. St Lawrence will Lawrence will inevitably inevitably in- in be forced on the tho east as an Issue that can no longer bo be overlooked e State In the west th there re is a a. big driving force toree behind the enterprise Before the tho war the conception h had d taken stron strong t I hold hollI of ot the thc business men In that section section sec sec- I tion tho the war placed It in the background background background back back- ground now un untiring t irin energy energy- converging converging ing from many sources In Industry con I commerce commerce com com- merce agriculture will push the undertaking undertaking undertaking und und- forward The scope of or the tho 1 backing embraces fourteen states The member states of or the Great SL St. Lawrence Tidewater association are arc Illinois Michigan Iowa Iona Montana Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado Indiana Wisconsin North Dakota Da Da- kota Idaho Nebraska 1 Ohio Minnesota South Soult Dakota and Wyoming yo m InS A ora fa favorable lo report Is 16 expected from tho the Joint jott high commission within thin th the year effort cHort will then center center- on Congress Congress Con Con- gress ss to take the steps in conjunction with Canada which would assura the he completion of or the tho vast enterprise The joint high commission sl n. n composed of oC three members representing Canada is i r ralso also to report on the tho cost and a plan of or co operation co-operation between en the United I States and Canada Engineers are now I at work wol on the plan The commission Is holding hearings is cities having an Important connection with tho the enterprise enterprise enterprise enter enter- I prise |