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Title: The Ohio farmer
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (Columbus, Harvest Pub. Co., etc., 1899-)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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water in Lake Michigan would form opening of thirty feet. The bear trapdam formed of two metal leayes hasan opening of 1G0 feet. The contrivanceis operated by admitting water thruproperly-constructed conduits, valvescontrolling the amount of water to beadmitted. When this much of the work hasbeen completed it constituted nearlytwo-thirds of the entire cost of creatinga channel from Chicago to the Missis-sippi River which would be navigablefor the largest boats that will be ableto ply between St. Louis and New Or-leans after the present plans for theimprovement of the Mississippi willhave been completed. As each year ofthe work progressed and the attentionof the entire country became more andmore attracted to the high characterof it, the subject of carrying out oneof the original incidental projects, thatof making use of the channel as apart of a deep waterway from the lakesto the gulf, was carried into both na-tional and state legislatures. A con-gressional committee last year looked
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SCENES ON THE CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL.1. Showing earth and stone work. 2. Two-mile curve in main canal, near Romeoville. 3. Showing some of the stone work. 4. Power-house at Lockport. artificial channel in a passage fromthe Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,one is at a loss to figure out the mostimportant of thethree uses—sanitation,navigation, or industrial promotion. Altho the water was turned into thecanal eight years ago and the filth ofa great section of the city has beendiluted and sent down the Illinois Riv-er valley into the Mississippi, the san-itary feature of the canal is far fromcomplete. A costly intercepting sys-tem by which the sewers of the wholecity and of the suburbs will be madeto empty into the main channel, willnot be completed for some months.Twobig branches now projected and underway remain to be connected with thechannel. Before this canal was opened the drainage canal or of the SanitaryDistrict. Its construction was and itsmaintenance is under the absolutecon

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