Show FARMERS NEED LAKE MM giuin nurena A ahuvy 1111 an agricultural Problem 8 call ile 10 holved aletter Cond tiling tiong cibil cnn llo ito antl il eater ily BV J IV coverdale CON AMERICAN FARM editors noto note J IV Cover coverdale dalo la Is secretary of the american farm I arm hureau bureau Foa Fodor cration atlon tile tho largest most active and important organization of 0 its igind in 1 io 10 united states I 1 it t la IS constantly becking flig to solve pO bloms for tho the agricultural interests and to further their lat orests to tills this end a carpp 0 of s gathering data and information and whon when once tho bureau adopts a campaign or it i policy it la IS generally gon orally based on tile alio boat best information to bo be obtained mr Cover coverdale dalo liaa fiat adopted tile tho inland waterways project ill ft a part of needed improvement lit in transportation arta lion of farm products lie iio sustains ills his con ton tlona IOUS with bonici interesting ng ures tires eighty per cent of tile foodstuffs of tho nation are produced lit in the mississippi valloy states practically fitly fifty por per cent ot of tile products pio ducts of tile tho nation are aio produced in fit the states of ohio lud indiana iaria michigan illinois and west and north which are arc 0 r clod by not having proper water transportation out lot seventy five por per cent of tile tho wheat anil and si city five per cont cent of tile corn coin grown lu in tho the united states la is raised lit in this samo same territory tho the price tho the farmar receives voa for ills products is based upon tho arico of tho the commodity where tho the currents or of tile tho surplus of tile tho various countr countries icis meet loss less tile tho transportation and handling charges iionno tile american faini federation is ia tit ln te toro rested in III any ally project that aliota possibilities of increasing tile tho chanco chance for letter better tanning farming conditions history tells us its that tho the basins of tho the great lakos lakes have hava lind had five out los lining during past ages iges first froin labo superior down clown tho the st dolt croix river to tho the mississippi second across ariosa ohio and tho the miami river to the ohio river luver third from milo island down tho the des plaines and IIII rivers to tile tho mississippi fourth from froin lako lake ontario to lake oncida and through the mohawk anil ani hudson to tho ocean ind and lastly tho bat L Lawi artence aw enca tence outlet four great it la is interesting to note that tho the four historic coutlis aro are all capable of being converted into bargo barge cagial routes years ago a canal line was built and ope arted across the state of ohio connecting lako lake urto erlo anil and tile tho ohio river tile tho second lock lit in tho the illinois river outlet is 18 now being constructed with tho the prospect that thac some bargo barge transportation from chicago to thi tina mississippi river alvor will bo be a reality tho the st croix and mohawk river outlets loth both havo at this balvo uy ivo proponents and both routes 3 aro are entirely feasible for canal lines interest Inte roat however centers primarily in tho the developing of 0 tho the present outlet through the st Law laurenco Lawren renco cu river tile largest ocean going ships now como come up tip to Alon montreal troal which Is at tile the lend head of tidewater the they are prevented from coming on up to lako lake i ontario because of lapada in tile the st lawrence river an ali international joint commission was appointed s sonio 0 mo two or three years ago RO with nut authority hor to have surveys matari to determine doter the feasibility and espouses of opening this bouto from montreal to lake ontario for or ocean going ship ping hearings were told held in overy principal city of tills this country and canada the surveys have been rando and tho the report has been made to parliament and to congress it indicated I 1 that about forty miles of canal cagial bu tween Mon montreal troal and the international I 1 boundary will have to bo be constructed the rapids above the international boundary can bo ba submerged or drowned by the building of a lam dam just above the atwon of cornwall tho the hydro oleati le power from this dam dain la Is estimated at 1 70 borso pow a cent and a liali per kilowatt hour for our oui half or of tills this power tile tho donds nei noves sury for tile tho entire cost coat of our oui part pait of tile tho improvement would i io e retired in froin forty to aft fifty deais yc ui this cost coat Is estimated by tile tho engineers at throe hundred liun tuillio nill llon ll dollars based on oil last years eara costs coats of labor and material matoi lali and upon tile tho same fiume basis as aa were mado tile bigi floors osti matos of tile tho panama Pa llaina canal the panaglia Pa canal was actually built for foi ton million dollars dollar j under tho stamates 0 sti mates these would permit ocean dang ships of oc 21 foot draft and un dor cler to antor all 1111 our great lahuis borts alore than per cent of 0 tho ile worlds shipping Is carried in ves vea of 21 tt ft draft approximately tona tolls or 01 under canada 1 13 already rebuilding tile tho canal lit al n R cost of almost rillo ono ea I 1 mil tion dollars ind In alIng it of suan blont size bizo to ahli or of on foil 80 foot bearn beam and 31 foot draft tile tho project completed complo tod would civo all tho the great lakes ports tile ho advantage advant ago of ocean shipping chipping and rates if 4 la is generally Bonori gone rally ill agreed that wheat could bo be sont sent from du luth or chicago to liverpool by tills this route onto fit at considerably more than ton lon cents a bushel cheaper thin than by our present and that this saving would bo re floated flouted to tile pro discor cor it would also mako make competition on out our lako shipping and incoming fl which would result lit in an immense t rho hydro cloo trie power which would bo be dovo loped would according to tit alio electrical engineers gi gil leors estimator estima estinia toa tos bo easily trana on oil a radius ot of throe hundred miles thus serving all the alio now england manufacturing cities and releasing approximately thirty million tono tona of coal annually which would be available avail ablo for tile alio mid alid and north west states and would havo have tile advantage of tile tho hotter better lako transports tran lion and competition la Is getting it to its destination dosti nation since tile tho imports made and since tile the st Law lawrence rolicE trip was mado made scientists havo announced tile tho perfection of a new I 1 inoda ot of transmitting electricity I 1 whereby it a million lon volts volta can call ho he sent over ovel a single ijiro thus tho economic radius of transmission front from tareo hundred mitos miles to ono one thousand miles which would mean a broader market and a bettor palco tor for tho the electricity than indicated by tho engineers repts reports A notional nn 10 lo n n I 1 problem to got to tile sea has been a problem of all nations since tile dawn of astory tl story the does not as commonly Ilo tily supposed separate nation lint but lit in reality unites thorn them amongst the alio disturbing co comonas monts in europa today aio the desires of czecho jugo poland and rut sta sla to get outlets on the sea tho the st Lawi once route will bring tho the soi soa twelve li hundred undred miles closer to tile tho mississippi valley than it now Is it will enable us its to meet tile tho agricultural competition ot of australia argon una tina and brazil which wo we cannot I 1 now do tho the farmer from argentina can call now market ills corn lit in now york city for twelve cents centa less thin tho the freight on oil corn from the mississippi river to now york tho the cost coat of shipping one bushel of wheat front from chicago to liverpool is as great as tile the cost of shipping two and ami one halt bushels from odessa on oil tile the blacut sea tit in south russia to liverpool the estimated cost of the entire st la lawrence brenco project is three hundred hund hun reil dreI 1 million dollars the estimated cost of tho the barge canal from chicago to tile the mississippi river Is sixty million dollars tile tho cost of a canal from lake superior down clown tho the st croix river has so far as wo we know not been estimated estimate but would not be more than tho the illinois river line tho total cost of tile the three projects would bo be less than one fourth our 1921 appropriations for war hence our interest in tho the proper development of transportation meana mcana a greater america with more of a greater future for agriculture |