Niagara Falls 



1901 Engineers was detailed to make survey for a ship canal to connect 



Judson Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Surveys were then made of five 



different routes, the results of which are published in seven large 

 sheets, with report and estimates showing a canal with 10 feet 

 depth of water. These are published as Doc. 214, H. R. 24th 

 Congress, 1 st session, 1 836. This matter was again published as 

 H. R. No. 201 , 24th Congress, 2nd session, 1 837, and also again 

 published as part of H. R. Rep. 1 430, 5 1 st Congress, 1 st session, 

 1890. 



No further action was taken until 1853 when surveys, maps 

 and estimates for a canal with 1 4 feet depth of water were made 

 under New York State Commission by Charles B. Stuart, C. E., 

 and Edward W. Serrell, C. E. 



In 1863 President Lincoln appointed Charles B. Stuart, C. E., 

 to make report and estimates for a gunboat canal of 1 2 feet depth 

 and this report was published as H. R. Doc. No. 5 1 , 38th Con- 

 gress, 1 st session, 1 864. No action was taken until 1 867, when 

 surveys were made for the United States during that year by 

 James S. Lawrence and Stephen S. Gooding, C. E. Six different 

 lines were surveyed ; three from Lewiston on the Niagara River, 

 and three from Lake Ontaio; all being for a depth of 14 feet. 

 These were published, with maps and profiles in report of the 

 Chief of Engineers, U. S. A., pages 21 7 to 287, 1 868, and again 

 as part of H. R. Rep. 1 430, 5 1 st Congress, 1 st session, 1 890. 



In 1889 a revision of former estimates and surveys was made 

 by Captain Carl F. Palfrey, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., for a 

 2 1 -foot canal on two routes from Lake Ontario to Niagara river. 

 These were published, with profiles and estimates, in the annual 

 report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S.. A., for 1889, at page 

 2434. 



In 1 889 a bill was introduced in Congress by Representative 

 Sereno E. Payne as H. R. 582, 5 1 st Congress, 1 st session, under 

 date of December 1 8th, providing for a Commission to select one 

 of these routes and appropriating $1,000,000 for construction 

 upon it. No action was taken by Congress. 



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