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Show THE ENLARGED ERIE CANAL. The vote of the state of New York In favor of enlarging the Erie canal is of such importance that were any state of Europe to undertake a like Improvement it would be hailed as an act of national na-tional and international importance. The cost will bo equal -to what the cost of piercing the Darlen isthmus for a water-level canal, equal to the cost of the Russian canal to unite the Baltic with the Black Sea; it is an evidence of progres-slveness progres-slveness unexampled by any other state, but it had become a necessity. For five or six years Philadelphia and Baltimore have been drawing much of the grain, live stock and packed meat trade from New York, but the chief menace come i fiom Canada. She has enlarged her Willand canal and is at work on the canal around the rapids of the St. Lawrence and is aiming to monopolize the export grain trade from the states around the Great Lakes. New York City is determined de-termined to maintain her commercial supremacy at any cost. |