Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — SHIP CANAL PLAN. [ARTICLE]

SHIP CANAL PLAN.

Professor Campbell's Plan to Utilise tW Waters of the Kankakee. J. L. Campbell, of Wabash College, read a paper before the Indiana Engineering Society at Inianapolis, Wednesday, on “How to Utilize the Waters of the Kankak.e,” The paper presented a ship canal theory for the connection of the great Jakes with the Mississippi. It is to dig a canal from the south end of Lake Michigan to that point in the Kankakee rivet known as Baum’s bridge. The course ol the canal would then follow the Kankakee river and marshes and connect with the Tippecanoe river.