Excerpt from The Sault Ste. Marie Canal and Hay Lake Channel: Official Report of the Proceedings of the Waterways Convention, Held at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, July 20th, 1887 Resolved, That in the opinion of this Chamber, steps should at once be taken by all the commercial bodies between Duluth and the seaboard to impress upon the Congress of the United States the supreme importance of making such appropriations as will insure the completion of the pro posed improvements within the shortest possible period consistent with the perfection of the work to be performed; resolved, That the Secretary of this Chamber is hereby authorized. 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.

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