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In 1890 a report, with maps, profiles, and revised estimates was 1901 

 made by William Pierson Judson, M. Am. Soc. C. E., and was J" son 

 published as part of H. R. No. 283, 52nd Congress, 1st session, 

 1892, and as part of Senate resolution of the 54th Congress, 1st 

 session, 1896, and was also published separately under title of 

 "From the West and Northwest to the Sea by Way of the 

 Niagara Ship Canal." These estimates were for two routes from 

 Lake Ontario to Niagara River and for 2 1 feet depth of water. 



Reports were also made to Congress in 1 890 by Representative 

 Sereno E. Payne, and in 1 892 by Representative C. A. Bentley, 

 and in 1 896 by Representative C. A. Chickering, and by Senator 

 Calvin S. Brice, in each of which the commercial and engineering 

 aspects of the case were fully presented and favorably discussed. 



In 1895, under Senate resolution 130, which became a law on 

 March 2, 1895, the President, in November, 1895, appointed a 

 United States Deep Waterways Commission, consisting of James 

 Angell, John E. Russell and Lyman E. Cooley, M. Am. Soc. 

 C. E. The report made to the Commission by Mr. Cooley con- 

 tains a large amount of valuable information on this subject and 

 is accompanied by profiles of all the routes, giving information 

 not before published. The report of the Commission was pub- 

 lished under date of 1897 as H. R. Doc. 192, 54th Congress, 

 2nd session. 



In 1898 the United States Board of Engineers on Deep 

 Waterways elsewhere referred to, caused Charles L. Harrison, 

 M. Am. Soc. C. E., to make surveys and estimates for canals 

 21 feet and 30 feet deep, connecting the waters of Lake Ontario 

 and Lake Erie; the results of which surveys form a part of the 

 report of this Board which was submitted to Congress on 

 December 1, 1900. 



In 1 900 the State Engineer of New York, Edward A. Bond, 

 M. Am. Soc. C. E., caused estimates to be made for canals 

 around Niagara Falls as a part of the barge canal project on the 

 basis of 1 1 feet depth in the locks, and 1 2 feet depth in the water- 

 ways as given in the report of 1901 . 



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