Show last contract let on welland canal new ditch will let ocean liners pass niagara falls toronto A few days ngo the file last contract was let for the completion ot of the new NN elland canal connecting I 1 ale lake brie with I 1 ale ontario form ins ing tin ill fart link ID in lie the home of ni which will enable ocean liners instead of halting at Nion montreal to t steam Nel belward ward to tile lie fur flir inami I 1 ports of duluth und port arthur and all Inte intervening points I 1 without much flourish or ad artise w tit work on lie the new NN Ve elland llad canal ms ins teen proceeding for 14 11 ears it aill be completed according to pre nl 11 1 estimate in five years wore de luj lay lius has been due to the war mat 1 I roin an engineering point of view the tile new neis welland Is 19 a it mightier feat llian than the build ng of the lie panama canal while it Is oily 2 25 miles long as coin nm pared lil till lun anias 50 summit Is oily 85 feet above lie its en trances while the lN elland must over aine evine clift a lift of feet chich owing to the falls of u and andl accod panning raold separated separ sela atee rates the higher level of I 1 aae F brie rie from froin lake ontario As a con consequence sequence lifting apparatus la Is on u colbi il it scale to give gle some idea ot of the magnitude of the work it may be n led ted that if all the earth and rock to be excavated were loaded on dump cars the train w stretch for I 1 miles exactly the length of tile great wall of china lifie amount of concrete to be used would he be sufficient to build a solid concrete wall aall 20 feet high 6 feet wide ide and milea miles long rebuilt three time times A hundred years ago the first 1 el land canal vins built connecting the terminus port colborne Colu orne on lake brie with port pott Dillio Dallio uele wa tin I 1 fike ontario three times the work haa hiss been reconstructed and tile exist ing canal accommodates a substantial share of lake nal navigation gatlon lint the new enterprise la to infinitely more inore am atu bilious the tile fiertl ern or lake ontario ter jil trial haa has awn wen nihed from port dal hougle chri olineor e or four miles eal east t to port waller eller named after the engineer file canal will follow nn tin almott lit line lin e and will be live five miles shorter than the old ilithe 11 re will be only sen locka locks on with 27 17 on tile compared tlc new wi old not nl the tile t gap f liners on oil the lie the rent real I 1 akim ran can come through 1 loka but come line through in one third of 21 24 hours for instead the little I 1 line pa pashie smie ahr uhl the present structure it I 1 that only eight hour hours will be for the new way to estimate estl the lui men dav of abl this undertaking mien inti anti too 0 o cost jo at 1012 1912 price li Is to gay say that while the present panel ransil will accommodate only boata boats at the most aw feet lu in length the new one 4 un an let through mea wrin SOO feet suh such a length Is I 1 feet in more re than the tile largest boat now pt pling ing the 0 lakes among largest lock locks in world some of the cew lew locks are union among the largest in th thi world the lock rocks of the present canal are only feet long 45 feet wide and 14 feet in to depth the tile new now are nit only SW feet long but 60 feel feet wide with SO 30 feet of we wa ter oter 01 er the gate 1 lie at extreme low stages of the lake capacity loads for beels 1 during the present low water levels in the dd id canal are bushels not ot only the grant morden with her bushels and 22 feet draft pass through the new locks but have 8 feet beet to spare it ill take just exactly eight minutes to clear cleer this gigantic freighter through ouch each lift these huge lock compartments built throughout of coner concrete tte and founded on bedrock will hae walla walls towering 8 feet aboe abone the gate sills two of the lock locks will have walls ails over feet ugh high the gates a notable faatu e are to be among the largest in the world weighing 1100 tone tons each three of them are tm twin a lock locks in flight similar to the tile gat hatun lock locks of the panama canal that I 1 s each pair rising one above the other fur for construction purposes the work N ork I 1 was wa divided into nine sections no I 1 being at the lake on tarlo tario end of the canal and no 9 at the lake erie or port colborne col borne end the first three sections include the lake ontario en entrance and all the seven lift locki locks each one of which will ww raise mise or lower a bemel ael 40 feit feet these sections set tlona begun in 1012 will all be ready tor for navigation in three year years section no 6 5 between thorold and port colborne really an no enlargement of the present canal Is the only section completed comple teil and in me use section no 4 south of 0 thorold li Is almost the contract for section no 0 has just been awarded |