Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1911 — PROPOSED CANAL ROUTE [ARTICLE]

PROPOSED CANAL ROUTE

From Toledo to Chicago Declared to Be Feasible. Ft. Wayne, Ind., June 20. Colonel Mills and Colonel Zinn, United States Army engineers, addressed the Commercial Club today in regard to their preliminary survey of the canal possibilities between Toledo and Chicago via Ft. Wayne. The former was charged under the law with the Maumee Valley survey and he declared that the canal was feasible. “That goes without saying,” he said. He illustrated his review of the survey made with maps. Colonel Zinn, who has charge of the Ft. Wayne to Chicago branch of the route also declared a barge canal entirely practicable, but he would not hazard a guess until the result of the detail survey is made. He advised that the people along the line unite in providing statistics, cnowing the need of the canal, as the only way of securing favorable action. By doing so he said the canal will be ordered and built a year earlier than otherwise. „