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Show GREAT PORT FACILITIES OUTLINED FOR CHICAGO i CHICAGO, Feb 4. Reclamation df the foreshore on Lake Michigan In this I'hicagu district would provide nearly 100 square miles of land for wharves, warehouses and port facilities, according accord-ing lo a report submitted to my officials offi-cials by Colonel W. V. Judson, district J war department engineer. The report cajlsttention to the fact that ocean linen may dock at Chl- . igo's whaives within the next fifteen; years If the Great Laltes-St. I.awrenco; river channel project is carried out.. Such an outlet 10 tb Atlantic would, connect Chicago with the sea routes of i the world. The coal mines of southern , Illinois and the cot ion belf of the south ! will feel the touch of I'hlcago com-' merclal endeavor through an eight-foot eight-foot barge channel to the Mississippi. "Never before did i; seem as fair to , point out In prophecy a region where there must inevitable and soon be es-i labllshbd tio world s greatest port fa-; cilltles?.'' the report says. "The foreshdre of Lake Michigan fronting Chicago slope very gently lake ward," the report continues, "ad iliat the Bevejc-fathom contour is four, mile-? off shor-. This means that In our submerged lands, all publicly owned, the fhicafto dlstijct possesses nearly a hundred square miles any part of which Ij Is within the power of man to raise into land This is an asset of almost Incalculable value." Reviewing 'he sections of Chicago's lak front. Colonel .ludson poin s out; that Lakes Wolf and i.leorge lie close to Lal.e .NUehlgan on the 1 lllnols-Indiana line with "l square miles of marshy land adjacent. This section I "offers the greatest opportunity in all this region for tho creation of wharf I facilities of a character, magnitude and location suited to tho demands of the future" the report says. General plans foi the.se harbor fa-j cllllles, Colonel Judson s-(m have been approved by the war department, which is charged with studying hai-bor hai-bor conditions under the Esch-Cum-mins' la .v i nr. |