Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — THE TRENT CANAL. [ARTICLE]

THE TRENT CANAL.

Shortens Distance Between Cunadn’a llheat I- 1 c 1< 1 s and Liverpool. The Trent Valley canal in Canada is pearing completion. It will unite Georgian Bay with Lake Ontario, via Lake Simcoe, the Kit wart ha lakes and the Ontonahee and Trent rivers. The canal proper will he only twenty miles in length and will cost $10,090,000. This uninterrupted water course from Lake Superior to England will make tlie distance hctWifen Canada's western wheat fields and Liverpool 700 miles less than the present course via the great lakes and the Erie canal. Tlie boats will have n capacity of 800 tons while those on the Erie average nhout 240 tons. These advantages would speedily take away much of tlie Erie's business. Rut the voters of New York State, to forestall this competition, have emphatically decided to expend $100,000,000 in enlarging the Erie so that it can accommodate barges of 1,000 tons’ capacity.