ENGINEERING WORK OF TREMENDOUS MAGNITUDE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 496, 19 July 1932, Page 5

ENGINEERING WORK OF TREMENDOUS MAGNITUDE

ST. LAWRENCE SCHEME SECOND ONLY TO PANAMA CANAL EIGHT YEARS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE GIGANTIC TASK Press Association. —Copyright. Received To-day, 10.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Monday. THE St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty was signed to-day by Mr. Stimson for the United States and Mr. Heredge for Canada- It calls fc,r the development of the St. Lawrence for 180 miles from Montreal to Lake Ontario, an eight-year task, which will enable ocean-going vessels to travel to the heart of the continent, and will provide up to two million horse-power at a cost of eight hundred dollars.

Received To-day, 1 p.m. OTTAWA, Monday.—The nett capital cost to Canada for the St. Lawrence project is 38,071,500 dollars. Candida gets credit for previous expenditures, including those on the Welland Canal. The gigantic project is second from an engineering standpoint only to the Panama Canal. It will provide a 27ft. channel. The agreement must he ratified by legislatives bodies of both countries.

It deals only with the section of the St. Lawrence constituting the boundary between New York, Ontario, known as the international section. The national or Quebec section of the river Mr. Bennett, the Prime Minister, stated would be developed by the Dominion with Canadian labour, and materials, and no control or supervision direct or indirect will be exercised by the United States over this national undertaking.