Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — Plan to Make Rome Seaport. [ARTICLE]

Plan to Make Rome Seaport.

The latest project to make Rome a seaport Is to lay out a port 36 feet deep near Castel Fusaro, formed by running two Jetties out Into the sea for distance, as at the port of Ymuiden, Holland. From the port will lead a ship canal 15 miles long and 200 feet wide and 27 feet deep. At Rome shipping accommodations will be laid out in the river below the city, and this will be connected with the navigable part of the Tiber uy a system of locks. It will cost about $15,000,000 to carry out the project Opponents of the Idea claim it will not pay, but the promoters affirm that when once the city is connected with the Mediterranean there will result s great amount of traffic. * <