Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1911 — PREPARES TO DISCUSS CANAL. [ARTICLE]

PREPARES TO DISCUSS CANAL.

Conference at South Bend Will Hear Engineer’s Report South Bend, Ind., July 18.—Forty cities will be represented in South Bend tomorrow night at a waterways conference at which the proposed Lakes Michigan and Erie Canal will be discussed. The purpose of the meeting is to organize the cities of northern Indiana in the internals of the proposed canal, and to arrange for the visit of the congressional committee which will go over the route in August. A report of the feasibility ot the canal has been prepared by W. T. Harris, of Chicago.