Show the eric crie barge canal while the erie barge canal NIll ft ill cost about one third of the es timatea cost of the panama canal the magnitude of the exceeds that at panama the present file eile canal Is about mila kilps long 1019 and of this flits dis tance the barge canal follows the old route for only 24 cpr cent ol 01 84 miles for the other odd miles the canil canal is laid out on what is another other route following the rivers and lakes anold an old route of diniel by water chich alch was used b the pioneers who settled the western part of the state elate |