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Excerpt from Letter From the Acting Secretary of War: Transmitting, With a Letter From the Chief of Engineers, a Copy of the Report of the Board of Engineer Officer in Relation to Improvement of the Navigation of the Hudson River
Finally the Board invites attention to the interesting experiment now under trial of carrying unbroken cargoes through from Duluth to Liverpool in vessels of only 14 feet draft. On June 11, 1891, the Charles W. Wetmore, a steel vessel of the new whaleback type, left Duluth for Liverpool with a cargo of bushels of wheat, this being the first clearance from Lake Superior for a foreign port. She passed through the lakes and Welland Canal, lightering a part of her cargo at Kingston and taking it on again with an additional load at Montreal, proceeded down the St. Lawrence to the sea, and finally arrived at Liverpool with bushels of wheat on July 21, 1891. When the improvements now in progress on the Canadian canals are completed, it is said that such a vessel will be able to carry an unkroken cargo of nearly tons from Lake Superior to a foreign port and return. The successful introduction of such vessels may possibly revolutionize the carrying trade of the Great Lakes, and render unnecessary the forma tion Of channel depths so great as are now considered desirable in the lines of water transportation.
In View of the above considerations the Board is of the opinion that the present demands of commerce, and its probable development in the near future, do not now justify the expenditure Of the amount of money necessary for the formation of the proposed channel for seagoing ves sels drawing 20 feet of water from New York to Albany or to the State Dam at Troy.
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