A BIG ENGINEERING SCHEME.
A proposal has been suggested to utilise the vast water supply of the extreme north of America by closing the northerly outlet of the valley of the Mackenzie River at the line of C 8 clegs., and thus storing up the
water of 1,260,000 square miles, to which could be added the water of other large areas. A lake would be formed of about 2000 miles in length by 200 average width, which would cover with one continuous surface the labyrinth of streams and valleys which now occupy the Mackenzie Valley. It would be a never-failing feeder for the Mississippi, and would connect with Hudson Bay and the great lakes, also with the interior of Alaska, through the Yukon and its affluents. The connection of the Upper Mississippi with Lake Mackenzie would be a comparatively easy mattter, and a vast amount of navigable waterway would be added to this river. The formation of Lake Mackenzie would also contribute to the proposed ship canal from Cairo (Illinois) to the Gulf of St. Lawrence by the almost straight line which cuts the Wabash Valley, the Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the Lower St. Lawrence.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2716, 2 December 1881, Page 3
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196A BIG ENGINEERING SCHEME. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2716, 2 December 1881, Page 3
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