Giant Stairway Lowers Grain Vessels 326 Feet
£23,000,000 CONTRACT. United Press Association.—By Elcctri* Telegraph,—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 11 p.m. NEW YORK, April 21. On the Niagara Peninsula today, Canada’s new Welland Canal was opened for shipping, ats construction has occupied 20 years and cost £23,000,000. It is a giant stairway fer ships, overcoming the Niagara Falls barrier. Grain vessels, carrying half a million bushels, can pass through it and in seven tremendous steps, be lowered from the level of Lake Superior- and Lake Huron, 326 feet to Lake Ontario,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7199, 23 April 1930, Page 5
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