Show EXP RT rs SURVEY LARECE PROJECT 4 u. u Cost d of Making River Navigable Navi Navi- r g gable ble for Deep Sea Vessels Vessels Vessels Ves Ves- sels Estimated I. I r i D DETROIT Oct 14 The H.-The The cost of ng the St. St Lawrence river bet be- be t een Lake and Montreal navle nav nay le to d deep ep sea sea vessels was es- es I es-I 1 at b by Colonel W Vf V I v oten United States army en- en Fin e and W. W A. A Bowden chief eng enof en- en g fr of ot the Canadian department of railways and engineers who made an I r i elg months months' is- is months months' survey of the proposed proposed pro pro- pro pro-I posed lakes to the oc ocean a n route for forth th the international joint joint commission would provide pro pro- This cost they reported vide de for tor a channel depth of ot twenty twenty- Ite feet teet with provision in in- inthe the per- per nt Improvements for tor increasing the depth to thirty feet If desirable at dt t. t an additional cost of Maintenance was estimated at 2 annual annually Their recommendations however contemplated also development de- de of a power plant that I would produce horsepower This plant built on a great dam at Long Sault Rapids near Ogdensburg Ogdensburg I burg N. N Y it Was as declared could b b. b expected to produce about Oer cent of of- the potential power in the tho St. St Lawrence river NINE LOCKS PLANNED The improvement program recommended recommended mended by the engineers contemplated a series of nine locks three thirty-three mUGS miles of of canals forty and one-half one I miles mUes of t lake lak channel and mites miles of river channel These improvements of the tho conceived to take care feet drop rop from Lake Ontario to Mon Mon- treal Locks 84 feet long by eighty feet wi 8 were recommended Canals with witha a I bottom width of feet and a surface surface surface sur sur- face width of feet were suggested suggested suggested ted and it was recommended that all op open channels have a bot bottom om width of oJ at Toast st feet Tle Tee e Improvements recommended by the he Unite United States and Canadian engineers ers called for three locks between be be- twe teen tween n Montreal and Lake St. St Louis three e between Lake St. St Louis and Lake St Francis and three between Lake St. St v Francis and Chimney Point near Og Ogdensburg l N. N Y The rhe he main dam of the proposed hydroelectric hydroelectric hydroelectric hy hy- plant at Long Sault rapids would develop a a head of ot seventy-four seventy feet the engineers reported An emergency dam at Ogden island to tobe tobe be used for regulation and additional safety also was recommended CANAL 25 MILES LONG The new now Wellan ship canal being constructed b by tnt the Canadian government govern govern- m ment nt Is bei belie Unfit built t to accommodate vessels feet long with a draft of tw twenty five five nty-five feet Provision is made t for deepening the useable 1 r later to thirty feet The canal fiVe entY-fiVe miles mUes long and steps dot down V n a n. drop of feet between Lake Erl Eri Erie and Lake Ontario It is Js to have seven lift locks three of them twin locks in flight similar to the Gatun locks Jocks or of the Panama canal It is es estimated es- es that one of or the locks can be bo filled in eight minutes and that passage passage passage pas pas- sage through the canal can in eight hours J 1 be new nAUf Welland WeIland is the fourth canal to bo be constructed by the CanadIan Canad- Canad Jam Ian government between Lake Erie a Lako Ontario The third or present present present pres pres- ent canal is restricted to vessels of ot not than fourteen feet draft with locks feet long and forty five feet wide The Thee first Welland WeIland canal was built is is s h a private enterprise being completed ed In rn t 1829 It had forty wooden locks each feet long two twenty-two feet wide and eight feet depth of water on sills |