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Show Secretary Shaw, In n reccut addrcs In Chicago, declared that a single Western city (Minneapolis) now manufactures manu-factures nnd sends abroad n carload of Hour for ovcry ten minutes of day and night, tho year round. IIo said also that tho Detroit River (one of the links In tho Great Lakes traillc) carries four times as much tonnage as docs the Sues Canal. Tho sigulilcauco o.. these figures is tremendous; but it must be remembered that they rcprcssnt only a small fraction of tho wholo commerce. |