. 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 . he CalumetRiver also could be diverted so as to send 4,000 cubic feet of waterper second, through the Drainage Canal, and thus give a total diver-sion from Lake Michigan of 14,000 cubic feet per second. The WarDepartment has, up to this time, refused to permit a diversion of morethan 4,167 cubic feet per seco
. 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 . he CalumetRiver also could be diverted so as to send 4,000 cubic feet of waterper second, through the Drainage Canal, and thus give a total diver-sion from Lake Michigan of 14,000 cubic feet per second. The WarDepartment has, up to this time, refused to permit a diversion of morethan 4,167 cubic feet per second. 227 . It is shown by the engineers of the United States Army Corps (seeHouse Document No. C, 59th Congress, 1st Session) that the diver-sion of 14,000 cubic feet per second from Lalte Michigan will perma-nently lower the level of that lake and Lake Huron nine inches; thatit will lower the level of Lake Erie eight inches, and that it will havea pronounced deleterious effect on the St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair,the Detroit River, the Welland Canal, Lake Ontario, the St. LawrenceRiver and the Niagara Falls. The International Waterways Commis-sion stated (see War Department Document No. 293), after most elab-orate investigations, that the effects of such diversion Irom the lakes. RUSH STREET BRIDGE, CHICAGO RIVER. September 22, 190S. would entail an expense of $10,000,000 for deepening connectingchannels and the harbors now in existence along the lake shores,and of $2,500,000 for similar work on the Welland Canal and the River. This estimate does not include damages to the Ni-agara Palls or increased cost of developing other harbors in the this the Chicago Sanitary District makes reply that examina-tions have been made which show that an expenditure of $796,923 inworks that would regulate the flow of water, from Lake Superiorthrough St. Marys River, would fully compensate for the amount thatthey wish to abstract from Lake Michigan. To this the rejoinder
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