Letters on the Necessity of Cheapening Transport Between the West and the Ocean: Addressed to the Milwaukee Sentinel and Chicago Tribune |
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850 ton propeller Albany artificial water lines boats breaking bulk Buffalo Canada Canadian Canal and adapting Caughnawaga Canal cents per bushel Cheapening Transport Chicago commerce connects Lake constructed cost of transport defer further remarks depth of water East Eastern enlarged Erie and Ontario Erie Canal export trade fifty tons grain from Lake Hudson River hundred and fifty improvements increasing Lake Champlain Lake Erie lake harbors Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Nippising Lake Ontario Lake Simcoe Lake Superior Lawrence Canals Lawrence River lessen charges lockage locks of nineteen millions of dollars Milwaukee Mississippi Necessity of Cheapening ninety millions Northwest ocean ports Ohio River Orleans Oswego Ottawa outlet pass vessels propeller of 850 propeller taking cargo Quebec rapids rates of freight reduce the cost route sailing vessel surplus product thousand miles tion upper lakes vessel of 850 vessels and propellers voyage Welland Canal West WESTERN TRADER wheat York Champlain Canal