Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Russia’s Proposed Great Canal. [ARTICLE]

Russia’s Proposed Great Canal.

One of Russia's greatest efforts in the improvement of her Interior communications and consequent increase of domestic trade, the projected canal between the Baltic and Black Seas, which has engaged the attention of the Government for some time past, is a great undertaking. It would cost. Including the purchase of ground, about SJXI,OOO.000. and full live years would be required to complete the work. It would be practically a uuitiug of lakes, and the project is entirely feasible. The full length of canal and connecting waters is 984 miles, and the proposed depth, twenty-nine feet, with a minimum width of 220 feet on the water surface and 120 feet at the bottom.— The Manufacturer.