Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1889 — Profiles of the Ship Canal. [ARTICLE]

Profiles of the Ship Canal.

Washington dispatch: R. I. Corthell and O. Guthrie of Chicago have requested Gen. Casey to instruct Capt. Marshall, the government engineer at Chicago, to fur» nish profiles of the boring for the ship canal through the Bag route, Mud lake route, and Des Plaines route to Lemont, and also from Joliet to Marseilles. Gen. Casey told them that if this information was officially called i'or by the judges fixing the boundaries he would take it under consideration. This answer is considered as favorable. The object of this inquiry is to ascertain whether there is an exaggerated estimate of the cost of building this canal made upon the supposition that most of the bed is rock, and in order that the people who are to vote upon the question next November may have the results of the latest surveys.