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Show GREAT PORT AT JHilMfll! Hundred Square Miles Are Available on Lake Front CHICAGO, Feb. 4. Reclamation of the foreshore on Lake Michigan, In the fhlcajro district, would provide nearly 100 square mile of land for wharves, warehouse and port fucllltle. according accord-ing to a report submitted to city officials offi-cials by Colonel W.' V. Judson, district war department engineer.- The report call attention to the fact that ocean liner may dork at Chicago's Chi-cago's wharves within the next fifteen years 1f the fireat Lkc-Ht. Jawrenre river' channel project Is carried out. I Much an outlet to the Atlantic, would I connect Chicago with the aea route of the world. The coal mines of southern Illinois and the cotton belt of the South will feel the touch of ( hit ; en cmm ere in 1 en dcavor through an etght-foot barge channel to the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. "Never before did It seem a fir to point out in prophecy a region , where there must Inevitably and soon he established the world's greatest port farillties." the report said. "The forehore of Iake Michigan fronting Chicago slopea very gently lake ward." the report continues, "so that the seven-fathom contour Is four miles off shore. This mean that In our submerged lands, all publicly owned, the Chicago district possesses marly a hundred square miles, nny ln .,f mhU-h it 1 within the power of man to raise" into bind. Tina is an asset of almoar Incalculable value." Reviewing the sections of Chicago's lakefront, Colonel Judson points out that Itkes Wolf and Jerge lie close to I,ake Michigan on the Illinois-Indlarm Illinois-Indlarm line, with six square miles of marshy, land adjacent. This see- - tlon "offers . the greatest opportunity in alt this region for the creation of wharf facilities of a character, magnitude magni-tude and location suited to the demands de-mands of the future," the report says. General plana for these harbor fu-lli-tles, ( 'olonH Judson said, have been approved by the war department, which is charge. with studying harbor har-bor conditions under the Kara -Cummin law. |