Cassier's magazine (1911) (14741021516)

Identifier: cassiersmagaz401911newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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my, dated Septem-ber 10, 1802: The landing is in a bay immedi-ately at the bottom of the fall on thenearest channel to the land of thenorth shore. A good wharf for boatsis built at the landing, on which astorehouse, 60 feet long, 30 feet wide,is erected. The wharf is planked,and pathways made and planked allaround it. Close to the store a lockis constructed for boats and canoes,being 38 feet long, 8 feet 9 incheswide. The lower gate lets down bya windlass; the upper has two fold-ing gates with a sluice. The waterrises 9 feet in the lock. A leadingtrough of timber, framed and planked,300 feet in length, 8 feet 9 incheswide, 8 feet high, supported and lev-eled on beams of cedar through theswamp, is constructed to conduct thewater from the canal to the lock.A road raised and planked 12 feetwide for cattle extends the wholelength of the trough. The canal be-gins at the head of it, which is achannel cleared of rocks and theprojecting points excavated to admit THE SAULT STE. MARIE CANAL 677
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678 CASSIERS MAGAZINE the passage of canoes and boats.This canal is about 2,580 feet inlength, with a raised bridge or path-way of round logs at the side of it12 feet wide for oxen to track theboats. This canal was in use by canoesand bateaux until 1814, when thelock was destroyed, excepting itstimber floor and miter sills, byUnited States troops from MackinacIsland under the command of MajorHolmes. The remains were dis-covered and unearthed in 1889, andare preserved in the original loca-tion surmounted by stone walls andflooded to prevent rapid decay of theonce stout timbers. Settlement of the Northern wilder-ness during the first half of the lastcentury was slow, and was discour-aged by the fur companies, as itmeant the extinction of fur-bearinganimals and loss of trade. The strug-gling hamlet of Sault Ste. Marie, onthe American side of the falls,although the first permanent settle-ment on the continent west ofMontreal, was then as remote fromthe outer world as a place of abodeon th