Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1878 — Ohio Canals Doomed. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Canals Doomed.

The Ohio canals are doomed. No north and south artificial water lines can long survive in competition with the railroads. The great movements of heavy freights are from west to east. It is this fact that accounts for the prosperity of the Erie canal. Some sections of our Ohio canals, where there is coal transportation to do, will doubtless survive, but the system as a whole must sooner or later be abandoned. A struggle for its continuance is a fight against fate. —Cleveland Herald.