. Mackinac, the Wonderful isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and other northern Michigan summer resorts . s thebuilding of the new canal and locks at this point. It is proposed to soenlarge and deepen the canal as to make it navigable for boats drawingtwenty feet of water. This is being done at an expense of more than fivemillions of dollars, of which considerably more than a million will beexpended during the present year. The new lock, which is to be eighthundred feet long and one hundred feet wide, built of enormous blocksof granite, will be the largest reservoir of its kind on the globe. It sup
. Mackinac, the Wonderful isle, Petoskey, Traverse City and other northern Michigan summer resorts . s thebuilding of the new canal and locks at this point. It is proposed to soenlarge and deepen the canal as to make it navigable for boats drawingtwenty feet of water. This is being done at an expense of more than fivemillions of dollars, of which considerably more than a million will beexpended during the present year. The new lock, which is to be eighthundred feet long and one hundred feet wide, built of enormous blocksof granite, will be the largest reservoir of its kind on the globe. It sup-plants the old lock, itself more than five hundred feet long, but throughwhich a greater commerce annually passed than enters the port of London,England. This magnificent new lock, together with the many other attrac-tions found in this historic old town, makes a visit to the Soo of greatinterest. The hotel accommodations are ample and all that can be wishing to return more quickly than by the water route canreach Mackinaw City, via St. Ignace, by railroad in about four PETOSKEY,
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