Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — Improving Their Channels. [ARTICLE]

Improving Their Channels.

The bar at the entrance of the River Mer cy, and which has been such a source of trouble to the city of Liverpool, has now,been so far lowered that there is a minimum denth of nineteen feet over a channel 1,000 feet wide, and a minimum of twenty feet over a width of 500 feet, and the river authorities sav that at no distant date the channel to Liverpool will be oven to all vessels at all states of the tide. It is also stated that vessels drawing 21 feet << inches can now successfully navigate the Manchester ship canal.