re it pierces the water- canal, the proposal to reverse the flow of the Calumet $50,000,000; and, with a view to making it eventually River, so that it will discharge into the Des Plaines shed. Beyond this the digging was continued through a part of the deep waterway, the people of Chicago River… … could have remained stationary, are all movable for the passage of boats. The entire length of the proposed waterway from the route follow the drainage canal already exca- Des Plaines River. The Sanitary District also in- Chicago to St. Louis is 362 miles. From Chicago vated, has recently been…
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