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The chief ports on lake Michigan are Green Bay, and Milwaukee—but Keewau-nee, Manitotitvoc, Sheboygan and Racine, nt the mouth of Root river, and Pike and Southportare thriving villages. Surveys have been made by the General Government, and plans matured for the improve, ment of all these harbors, by the construction ofpiers and break-waiers, and lighthouses have been erected at the entrance of several of them.But the most important navigable line of communication, after the Portage Canal, for connecting the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, is that which has been proposed, from the mouth and up the valley of the Mam-touwoc river la Lake Winnebago. The object of this great work is to obviate the objections to the route from the head of Green Bay to the Mississippi, as the navigation of that large expanse of water is not only circuitous and difficult, but at least 200 miles out ofihe direct route of the steamboats and other vessels which have an intercourse between the various ports on lake Michigan, i and all those on the intermediate lakes to I the Niagara river.The mouth of the Manitouwoc River is ninety miles south of the entrance into Green Bay. The length of the canal would not exceed eighteen miles, and this steamboat route joining that from Green Bay, in lake Winnebago, the capacious natural basin for both, would reach the valley of the Mississippi, tour hundred miles above the mouth of the Illinois river, which will be the outlet of the Chicago ship channel, and thus shorten the distance of transportation several hundred miles, for the towns in a large portion of Wisconsin and Iowa, on . that river.If this last named canal should be constructed, the ports of Manitouwoc and Green Bay will not only be the entry ports of the country traversed by the Fox'and Wisconsin rivers, a distance of 248 miles, but that on both aides of the Mississippi, from the River Dea Moines to the falls of St. Anthony, including a line of navigation at least 700 miles in length, and which will subserve a region, whose area exceed 100,000 square miles.The mines of Wisconsin and Iowa have nrnrhifPrl nnn tinnv so nnn nnn- nf I
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Apr 16, 1839
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