. The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions, with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization . asmuchas the navigation of this and other portions of the proposed DeepWaterway—Chicago to the Gulf is a palpable absurdity, it seems prob-able that, in the course of time, the Chicago River will be relegatedto sewage purposes alone. It is manifest, therefore, that the first section of the proposedDeep Waterw
. The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions, with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization . asmuchas the navigation of this and other portions of the proposed DeepWaterway—Chicago to the Gulf is a palpable absurdity, it seems prob-able that, in the course of time, the Chicago River will be relegatedto sewage purposes alone. It is manifest, therefore, that the first section of the proposedDeep Waterway, from Chicago to the Gulf, does not offer much toencourage the promoters of that wild scheme. 230 (2) Chicago Drainage Canal—Thirty IVIiles Long. The Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal, thirty miles long, extends fromthe south end of the portion of the Chicago River above discussed,to a power plant that has been built in the valley of the Des PlainesRiver, about two miles above Joliet, Illinois. It has been made twenty-two feet deep (twenty-four during periods of high water in the lake)throughout, and is designed to be, eventually, nowhere less than ICOfeet wide at the bottom, and 162 feet wide at the surface of thewater. It has a capacity of discharging 14,000 cubic feet of water. CHICAGO RIVER, SOUTH BRANCH. METROPOLITAN ELEVATEDRAILROAD BRIDGE. November 9, report o( the Chief of Engineers. per second at a velocity of miles per hour. By excavating this canaland deepening and widening the Chicago River, the direction of flowof the latter has been reversed, and it now empties its water south-ward into the Des Plaines River, instead of northward into Lake Mich-igan. The construction of this canal was a tremendous sanitary district of Chicago has expended upon it and auxiliary 231 power plants, etc., about $55,000,000, and yet it is not completed—ablock of material ninety-two feet by twenty-four feet by miles(containing about 3,368,000 cubic ya
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