DON'T DELAY THE ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY
Don't Delay the St. Lawrence Waterway THE CONTEST in Congress over striking from the pending Riverg and Harbors bill the provision for the lower Illinois River, involves more than the mere...
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...The States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York are now asking the Supreme Court of the United States to stop this diversion...
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...From the end of the Chicago Drainage Canal at Lockport, the river drops 100 feet in the 64 miles to Utica...
...This is true because the proposed deepening to nine feet of the 235-mile lower section of the Illinois River from a present depth of seven feet is wholly useless with a depth of only six feet up the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois and a like depth of only sr...
...They insist that the highest court in the land should be permitted to decide which is right before Congress acts...
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...Lawrence Waterway THE CONTEST in Congress over striking from the pending Riverg and Harbors bill the provision for the lower Illinois River, involves more than the mere improvement of the Illinois River...
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...Lawrence waterway with its wonderful power possibilities for the benefit of New York and New England is indefinitely postponed until the legal rights can be ascertained and the status of this diversion definitely determined by the Supreme Court of the United States...
...The present old Illinois and Michigan shallow barge canal from Utica to Lock-port carried less than 10,000 tons in 1925, and the entire lower Illinois River section carried only 98,000 tons in the same year...
...Action on this Illinois River improvement by the next or a later Congress will be in ample time for any possible traffic from Chicago into the Mis...
...No new complications should be permitted to delay this determination, and the Illinois River provision should be stricken from the pending Rivers and Harbors bill...
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...This work was assumed by the state of Illinois in 1908, but up to this time the rebuilding of the Lockport lock is only half completed and no work has been done on three of the necessary State locks...
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...It is certain that the next Congress and probable that several successive Congresses will have ample time to provide for any necessary improvement of the lower Illinois to permit of any traffic to or from Chicago through the 64-mile State Lock section from Lockport to Utica...
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...Chicago from the upper end of the proposed Illinois River improvement, at Utica there is even less reason for a deepening of the lower Illinois now...
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...The traffic on the lower Illinois River is thus less than one-thousandth part of the traffic on the Great Lakes, and that between Utica and Lockport is now less than one-ten thousandth part of the Great Lakes traffic This shrinking traffic is all that has been developed during twenty-five years of taking of Lake Michigan water at the expense of the most serious injury to the Great Lakes traffic involving at present a freight earnings loss alone of upwards of $4,000,000 a year...
...To make this navigable it is necessary to build four new locks and to rebuild the 41-foot lock at Lockport...
...Chicago hopes by having this provision included to be able to urge that Congress has recognized a right to divert water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois River...
Vol. 18 • December 1926 • No. 12
