Salt Lake Herald | 1890-12-14 | Page 1 | The Puget Sound Ship Canal

The Puet Sound Ship Canal I WASHINGTON Dec 13 Secretary Proctor Proc-tor sent to the House a report from Captain Symons the results of a preliminary examination between Fort amination for a ship channel Townsend bay Puget sound and Oakbay Captain Syaions reports a hip channel to connect the two bays might bo of considerable con-siderable importance in time of war but the commerce which might be benelltted by the proposed canal is and will bo for some time not at all commensurate with tho cost of opening and maintaining the same 1 the proposed iron and steelworks steel-works at a near date aro established the benefits to be derived from the canal In future may justify its being built but he cannot at present believe they will