Article September 6, 1900 Issue

An Immense Project

Entire Water of Lake Superior Utilized.

with contributions from SAMUEL LONGFELLOW

Boston Transcript

An industrial development equal to that at Niagara, perhaps surpassing it in chemical and metallurgical discoveries and new ideas, is under way here. Not less than twenty million dollars of Philadelphia and New York capital is being invested with an implicit confidence in the capacity of the management, though it will be years before the returns will be commensurate, and though many of the investments are along lines so new and revolutionary as to bring a smile of bewilderment to experts who are told of what is actually being accomplished at Sault Sainte Marie, Ont.

As the basis of the entire work all the water power of Lake Superior has been acquired, and before the establishments are fully completed the rapids of Sainte Marie, that have for unnumbered ages poured over the sandstone ledges at the lower and of the lake, will be dry, and all the vast flow of the greatest lake of the world will be at work, either turning wheels or passing ships through the canals and locks of the Sault. "It takes one one-thou-sandth of the water of Lake Superior to operate the ship locks," says Mr. F. H. Clergue, manager of the vast new enterprise, "and why should not the rest be utilized in employing many thousands in industries that but for cheap water power could not be carried on, and in turning to account natural advantages and materials that but for cheap power would be waste? It is not too much to say that millions will indirectly feel the result of the enterprises we are installing here."

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