. Examen des évaluations et de travail du monde. Le blé d'theNorthwest comme un minimum garanti. Etats-unis Gouvernement avait passé un dealof l'argent dans l'approfondissement de satellite et improvingpassages reliant notre chaîne de grands lacs, et est resté tout simplement pour les Canadiens d'improvt;leur système de canaux dans la région de Niagara andaround les rapides du Saint-Laurent, afin de permettre à un bon-sizedfreight ou steamer lake barge pour répondre à oceansteamers à Montréal. Ils ont montré com-mendable enterprise et méritent une ample rew.ard. Cette nouvelle condition du changement a whollyCompetition

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. Review of reviews and world's work. wheat of theNorthwest as a guaranteed minimum. TheUnited States Government had spent a great dealof money in deepening channels and improvingpassages connecting our chain of great lakes, andit simply remained for the Canadians to improvt;their canal system in the Niagara region andaround the rapids of the St. Lawrence River, inorder to make it possible for a good-sizedfreight steamer or lake barge to meet oceansteamers at Montreal. They have shown com-mendable enterprise and deserve an ample rew.ard. Canadian This new Condition has whollyCompetition changed the nature of the discus- ine Erie Canal, • . , » /. i i /. and iiississippi sion oi the luture of the canals ot Improuement. ^j^^ g^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ york. Railroads cannot possibly compete with waterways in thetransportation of grain, provided the waterwayshave a capacity to permit the movement of traf-fic in a modern way on a large scale. It willcost the State of New York a great sum ofmoney, perhaps from $50, 000, 000 to $75, 000, -. IION. RICHARD BARTHOLUT, OF MISSOURI. (Chairman of House Committee on Improvements of theMississippi River.) 000, to modernize the Erie Canal, but the re-sults would probably justify this large expendi-ture. Perhaps tlie chief beneficiaries, however, would be the Western fanners, whose surplus])n)duct could be transported to mai-ket at an ap-preciable reduction of transportation charges.The Mississippi Aalley is also discussing the newCanadian grain route, and is finding fresh argu-niems for the compreliensive improvement ofMississippi River navigation. The success ofthe Nicaragua project will give a great impetusto Mississippi River trade, and vast quantities ofcotton, wheat, and other staples will seek Orient-al markets via the Gulf of Mexico and the inter-oceanic canal. The committee on Mississij^piRiver improvement appointed by Speaker Hen-derson is regarded as unusually capable and in-fluential, and it is believed that the subject is to 136 THE

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