Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — OCEAN MOVED NEAR CITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OCEAN MOVED NEAR CITY

By Means of a Ship Canal Forty ~ Mlles Long Manchester Is Now Called a Port. London.—Though it is eighteen years ago since the Manchester ship canal was Inaugurated, few people beyond the radius of Lancashire realize the importance of this great inland waterway, that carries ocean-going ships into the heart of one of our largest cities. The ship canal is a trifle more than 35 miles in length, and has a depth of 26 feet, while It is 800 feet in width, or as wide as the Suez. In places the canal is 60 feet above sea level, and it cost considerably more than $75,000,000 to build. In cities like Bristol, Ipswich or Chatham, approached as they are by

tidal waterways, one expects to find ships, but hardly in a city more than 40 miles from the open sea. The-biggest canal In existence is that connecting Pekin and Canton in China, 1,000 miles in length. The Suez canal Is 99 miles long, the Caledonian 60 miles, and in Great Britain and Ireland the inland waterways total no fewer than 8,907 miles, more than 8,000 xrf which are in England.

At the Mouth of the Suez.