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From the Erie Canal to the Mississippi River, Including the
PROPOSED HENNEPIN CANAL,
Also, showing its terminus near the extensive GOVERNMENT ARMORY AND ARSENAL
on Rock Island, with the ten square miles around it that now
contain a population of 50,000.
This Canal -nlll form the connecting link between the Mississippi and the Lakes. It Is sixty-five
miles In length, and will cost $3,899,723, according to estimate made by the War Department In 1870.
It will be the grandest national work ever undertaken in the interest of cheap transportation. The
seven Northwestern States, whoec commerce it will cheapen, produced in 1879, (according to United
States Censns), in round numbers 1,300,000,000 buehels, or 70 000,000 tons, of grain alone. The saving of
two cents a bushel on one half of this amount would net $38,000,000 In one year, or enough to bnlld ten
mch canals.
This map is published by the Hennepin Canal Central Committee for general circulation. Sheets
lor letter heads, with map on the back, will be furnished at wholesale cost. Address
L. F. PARKER, Corresponding Secretary, Davenport, Iowa.