Deseret Evening News | 1900-01-02 | Page 1 | Opening of the Great Canal

OPENING OF THE GREAT Waters of lake Michigan Now Flow South to tho Gulf DRAINAGE DITCH II nr at I Coal of 0 1101 III ChiCago Jan 9 morning water wal Int the 3 drainage nOi to How toward It wl Into the and thence through the ant to the QuI 11 termed by the canal the hns been Cor ome completed from tho In the art ot tho to wIthin 15 tet or the main or tho canal This foot wal oC wIth two sluice gates I has ben ni kept tho out of the Al 10 a storm dredge legan to cut this ot a tew minutes toda the water In the channel th gate and only I C W Inches or re to be bror Chico was to her dren or ears and andee ee the great canal In actual When water to back up the gate tho were knocked away and the water from the o ran Into fhe engineers or the saniar district hae cuL n channel to carr I Ic C et or a minute but toa Ie wate was to nOw tho caMI at the oC cubic Ceet a mInute fhe elet ot teet of water a In Into to the empt canal b the buru g oC u res nd would ter oer the caal at Lck port helto the waler 1 be turned In a IPse tlc canal 1 ful ot and II away the sow thaI now no Into the An occasion might he ben made otic or the mot In the ot Chicago WS ai lowed to pas b the or tho sanitary district on their one or the AsIde from the and the f or the board than a dazen ther Or s nt