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It is stated tbat by constructing a canal about three-fourths of a mile in length, from Big S one Lake to Lake Tra-ver, eteamboaiB from St Paul could navigate both the Minnesota River and the Red river of the North to Lake Winnipeg, a distance of 700 miles 1 The country traversed by these rivers is surpassingly fertile, and capable of sustaining a dense population. Lake Winoepeg is larger than Lake Ontario, and receives the Saskatchewan river from the West The Sas'katch a-wan river- is navigable to a point (Edmonton liouBe) near the Rocky Mountains, 700 miles west of Lake Winnipeg, and only 150 miles east of the oele-orated gold diggings on Frazer RiveiyJn British Columbia. The digging of that one mile of canal* would, therefore, enable a steamboat at New Orleans to pass into Luke Winnipeg, and from thence to Edmonton House, some 5,000 miles! A bill has been introduced into the Senate, which makes provision for the building of the canal.
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Whig of 76
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jan 17, 1863
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