Chicago recently celebrated the joining of the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico by a waterway 96 miles long from Lake Michigan at Chicago to the Illinois River at Utica. A flotilla of barges from New Orleans with spices, coffee and sugar carried the first commercial cargo to traverse the recently-completed waterway, this realising one of the hopes of Abraham Lincoln. The canal from the Illinois River to Lake Michigan, built at a cost £20.000,000, has five, great locks capable of lifting and lowering 30,000 tons of freight a day. The locks make up for the difference of 129 feet elevation at the ends of the waterway. This completion of the Mississippi Valley system of water transportation ig expected to place midWest industry and business on a parity with the seaboard States.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22084, 14 October 1933, Page 17
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