Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — WANT AN INDIANA SHIP CANAL [ARTICLE]

WANT AN INDIANA SHIP CANAL

Uooaler Society of Civil Engineer* Petition* ConjrtM to till* Effect. The Indiana Society of Civil Engineer; has forwarded the following petition to Congress: “By direction of the Indiana State Society of Engineers the undersigned respectfully petition the Congress of the United States to provide for a preliminary survey for a ship canal to connect Lake Michigan to the Wabash river and to restore such portions of tin Wabash and Erie canal as may be advantageous to continue said ship canal to Lake Erie, and ass to improve the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers fiir navigation in connection with the canal. “We further petition 1 that a commission of three persons of the United States be apjwiintod by tho President to take general charge of this survey and the Investigations necessary for a full report -m tbe ta Congress.”