Show AN IMPORTANT PROJECT ox on the eleventh day of last november another great enterprise was quietly feed it is no less than the construction of a ship canal of such dimensions as to make manchester in england practically a sea port pert it to is to be called the manchester ship canal and will connect with the tide water at Li Lier pool this project which has been in contemplation several years will prove a most important enterprise in many respects respect primarily it will furnish labor for a large number of unemployed people who absolutely need it and when com practically revolutionize to some extent the commercial relations ot of two of En glands greatest marts of 0 trade of the inauguration of the work the engineer says 11 instead of having an elaborate ceremony with a public personage as the leading figure as is customary in such cases toe directors went quietly up the mersey to eastham easta am on the cheshire shore and each cut a sod an ordinary naviys spade being handed banded to lord egerton the chairman of the company his bis lordship cut vie tie first sod amid ringing cheers from the assembled spectators following him sir J 9 lee deputy chairman mr alderman bailey mr hnry H nry bod bed dingmon din ding ton mr J K k bythell ayt hell mr W J crossley mr C J galloway the mayor of stockport mr J leithal leigh and the mayor of oldham dr S R platt each cut a sod they being hein directors mr leader willia williams n is C E Z chief engineer to the company next filled a wheelbarrow with ea ri rth and aad tipped lipped it near by thus really beginning tte tie work of excavation ani andl subsequently mr Boalton Boulton of ashton under lyne cut a sod on behalf of gt himself and other shareholder a later on the directors examined the plant which the contractor mr walker has collected chien at eastham and ellesmere EU esmere port fort embraces fifteen locomotives numerous steam nievies nav vies or excava tors of the latest and most improved type massive cranes and a vast vase quantity of timber and steel rails it is expected that rapid progress will be made with this the lower part of the canal notwithstanding the advent of wintry weather and the upper part art will be proceeded with A sufficient number of trucks have been provided by the ashbury railway carriage co which his has contracted to supply wagons each week up to next may already within a week a good deal has been done the steam excavators excava tors have been put in position railways are be ing laid down for carrying away the excavated matter and and smiths and joiners workshops and store sheds have been erected naturally the prospect of work has drawn many hundreds of unemployed men to the scene of operations only some three or four hundred are so far employed but there is good prospect for fer genuine enuine and capable workmen for or this section alone will probably require at least two thousand phout thou and band men and when the whole work it ia to in progress I 1 the he ot of men employed will be belsten twenty and thirty thousand |