Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — OPPOSE DEEP WATERWAY [ARTICLE]

OPPOSE DEEP WATERWAY

Commission, It Is said, Will Report I Unfavorably to Congress. The government deep waterway commission, at its session behind closed doors at Chicago, recommended that an appropriation by congress to develop the lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway project would be impracticable. The commission, after an exhaustive examination, struck at the waterway project with the allegations that it is out of the question unless all the states and many civic bodies co-oper-ate in making the plan and raising the money; that the existing canal is sufficient for present needs; that the expenditure of the $20,0004)00 Illinois Intends to invest would be a waste of money and a mere drop in the bucket, as it would only dredge the Illinois river, while the dredging of the Mississippi would cost five times that amount