Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-02 | Page 2 | Will Complete Big Ship Canal

I WILL COMPLETE BIG SHIP CANAL Illinois Will Build Five Locks, Two Greater Than at Panama LA SALLE, 111, Dec. 2. (By tho Associated Prosa) Standing In s ialn-sonkod ialn-sonkod corn f kil undr hi: shadow of Starved Rock, on the Illinois river. Oovernor Small today ffOV the order to proceed with the construction of tho connecting link between tho Great Lakes and tho Mississippi, Ho approved the plans for the five grent locks, two of thorn with :t p r a t - r lift than any lock In th- 1'ananm i i: which will raise and lower tugs and barges a total of 123 feel In the 60 miles between La Salle and Lock-port. Lock-port. Tho governor's decision today Involves In-volves the expenditure of $19,000,000 in addition to the millions which has already been spent on th lock ;u Bell s island. Tm Bell's Island lock, which was inspected by tlu governor today is 96 per cent completed. GOES OM K COl USE Governor Small gave the word to proceed artcr spending most of the lav inbpectlng the 60 miles of Water -vi between IxKkport and Starved Hoc!, in company with Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, Colonel Miller, State Senators Ktchard 13arr of Jollct, and William 1. Bsekett, superintendent su-perintendent of wat rwoye and a party of Jollet, Morris und Ottawa citizens, The party had assembled In u tltla beside tne Illinois ricr. across from Starved Rock talu park. M. G. Barnes wuterwor ciiKin i , with ids blueprints, blue-prints, traced the site of the proposed lock and dam. bids'. " the governor askea. Within tiO days." Then go ahead " SAVING FREIGHT COSTS The governor announced that the ! state engineers figured the waterway would buvt The people of Chicago a i dollar a ton on all coal brought up by boat With Ita completion, he said, fleel of barges can operate direct from Chicago Chi-cago to New Orleans, carrying manufactured man-ufactured articles and grain from the ', I Great Lakes to the gulr at conslo- erablo saving over railroad freight rates, and bringing buck sugar, coffee, cof-fee, rice, lumber nnu otner southern products or lmporu. ou