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Show The Erie Burge Canal. While the Erie barge canal will cost 1101,000,000, about one-third of the estimated es-timated cost of the Panama canal, the magnitude of the work exceeds that zrt Panama. The present Erie canal Is about 345 miles long, and of this distance dis-tance the barge canal follows the old routo for only 24 per cent., or 84 miles, For the other 260 odd mllos the canal Is laid out on what Is practically another an-other other route, following the rivers and Ukos, Jin old route ot travel by .water, which wag used by tho pioneers who settled the western part of the state. |