Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Proposed Ship Canals. [ARTICLE]

Proposed Ship Canals.

Surveys are to be made for a ship canal from the lakes to the Ohio river, probably by way of the Erie and Pittsburg; the agitation in favor of the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal is growing, and the revival of the project of the Philadelphia and New York canal has revived interest in the Cape Cod canal project, which would greatly shorten the waterway between New York and Boston. There are no physical difficulties in the way that could not be surmounted by engineering skill; the question as to each canal turns mainly on the cost and possible revenue. It is conceded that such a chain of canals would be of great advantage to the Government in case of war, and that the canals would repay in value, directly or indirectly; all that might be expended upon them, provided they should be carried to completion.— [Philadelphia Ledger.