Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Peters Has a Great Scheme [ARTICLE]

Peters Has a Great Scheme

Charles H. Peters, of Starke county. is .at work on memorials which wi’l be presented to thb legislatures in several states asking for appropriations for a ship canal to connect the Illinois river and Lake Erie. Congressmen' Brick and Crumpacker have pro-1 raised to give such aid as will be I within their power. A memorial; was presented to the last session of congress asking an appropriation for the enlargement of the Illinois river from the Mississippi to Joliet, so as to make it navigable. Peters' idea is to secure the aid of Illinois senators and congressmen m attaching an amendment to that memorial or bill providing for continuing the work uo the Kankakee and St. Joseph rivers and a canal on to some point on Lake Erie, possibly at Toledo to connect with tne Erie canal. I The general government is to be I asked to do the work.