Excerpt from The Claims of the Northwest for the Improvement of St. Mary's River and Hay Lake Channel: Speech of Hon. Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, January 9, 1890 Were positions changed so that England in her determined attempt to engross the commerce of the world, stood in the place of the United States with such an element of power and commerce as this, not a dollar would be spared, not a subsidy would be wanting, not an hour would be wasted in developing it to its fullest capacity. This lock would have been built long ago. This channel would have been deepened. The Canadian canals would have been enlarged, and ocean vessels would now be plying between Liverpool and the head of Lake Superior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.