| Show THE SHIP CANAL scientific Atner american icam the suez bucz canal out oust and is capitalized at in ID 1892 it paid a net profit of W which was produced by the me passage of 8 through the snare share the par e value of which to is are quoted at the paris bourse boune at the worth ot or stock held by the brigith government la Is quoted at atao in the open opt n market the nicaragua canal even it if a corn com caer olal failure would be of great advantage to the united aa the controlling ownership of this thia waterway between the oceans would be worth the he to which government credit is expressly limited in we he bal now dow pending before Co Dgreen the ship canal between the delaware river and raritan bay an all immor or taut link in the chain of interior waterways waterway which will ultimately it is hoped enable vessels of larva jarue also to pats from boston to the gulf ulf of mexico without being exposed to the be fire of a hostile root fleet la in under dirous slun the second ship hip canal known as aa the florida ship Is intended to pierce the isthmus that connects he peninsula with we the main land Is warmly advocated by the gough southern gaughorn orn press this canal would only be 1 60 miles long lo nand and aou would id lesson lessen the di distance between now new orleans and liverpool by 1000 miles and would tend to greatly increase the commerce of be southern ports it would be 01 01 great value in we the development of the southern and western coal fields europe has haj bad three ship canals opened for traffic in the last lag eighteen months the manchester the corinth and the baltic and north sea canals DOIN and several others are now DOW under discus eloi the elbe trave canal will probably be built for use uee in connection with the baltic and north sea bea the estl mated cost coat Is prussia has contributed toward it As nearly eighteenth of the proposed canal is in prussian community la is naturally interested to iii preventing hamburg from monopolizing the trade of the country A scheme echeme is now under discussion to enlarge the canal and port of brussels so BO as aa to makee accessible to vessels or of 2000 tons the government hai ha promised francs and the city trance francs the estimated cost of the canal la is only about the canal between amsterdam and the rhine can hardly rank as a ship canal as the depth Is only 1 10 feet 3 inches one gae portion lof of it was waa completed august 4 1892 for a number of years past the subject of we canalization of ane seine has baa been agitated in france rouen is i a port fur seagoing vessel veta elB but there seems I 1 to 0 be great opposition to word ward any attempt to make parts paris one also the plan of AL bouquet do de la in arye tor for securing a draught of feet from havre to paris is ie now under discussion dla culon by the improvements which have already been mode made in the he river it ban bait been possible or a gun boat to reach paris and kikeli time ago a three dantail seagoing bark over feet long was waa launched d at st dents denie lu fut below paris T the h depth or abe hold bold of thin vessel was waa twenty two feet and the beam was waa thirty five feet A decree published in the kownat for september 22 1854 for a commission of inquiry to look into the plans which blob had been placed on exhibition at parr paria la in junr june toy the bay of biscay and mediterranean ship hip canal the length of the canal which will extend from bordeaux tu to varies in we abe different plans plan from to miles mile the cost coat of t which would be from to sueh a canal would bo be of great service both in times of peace and war but bat the expense Is a serious drawback to the success of the enter eater prise as the amount received for tolle toile would Dro probably bably not be buffi clent to pay abe inte rest reit on the debt italy has baa recently had two ship canal neither of which Is likely to materialize in the near future they are however very interesting irom from an engineering point of view owing to the rt reclamation of large tracts ot land which are useless at present the first scheme la in a waterway deep enough for the largent largel war vessels to pass from tile the mediterranean sea lea to the Adri adriatic atie the cana canal which would be milen milea long would proceed from montalto di castro to the seat baat coast at ai fano the cost would bm about the boond second project is more jea feasible sible it I 1 ie to make a 8 canal twenty lour miles milea long at reggio connecting with the abe amato and carace carabe rivers riven thus thua eing the peninsula and bD enabling abling vessels to pass paea through without bailing around sicily or goin going g through the straights of Me seLS tb the promoters prom otera expect that the land which would be rendered fit for cultivation would pay the cost coat in great britain two oft oai als have been dit discussed and adu there is ia every prospect that one of them the forth aud and clyde ship canal will tie be constructed ted the other the wakefield ship canal cadel in yorkshire england la is of purely local interest the estimated cost coat of the forth and clyde canal is ia from to depending on the route adopted the route has not been definitely definite jy decided on as yet three thousand vessels used the manchester abia canal in the first year after its opening |
