Canal Locks second to Panama

Front:
PHOTO BY FRANK H. NOWELL XXXX 70 CANAL LOCKS SECOND TO PANAMA, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 5 A-H2653

Back:
Seattle, Warh June 9, 36 9. DHP 29 FRANKLIN C. P. JOHNSTON CO., SEATTLE, WASHINGTON CANAL LOCKS SECOND TO PANAMA The Canal is about eight miles long from Puget Sound to Lake Washington. It adds more than ninety miles to Seattle's water frontage and gives access for ocean shipping to the nonotidalfiresho wafer harbors of Lake Union, in the heart of the City, and Lake Washington, twenty-five mileso lony and four wide, on the east boundary of Seattle!" The right-of-way is 300 feet wide, the channel 100 , the depth The locks capable of lifting larger vessels than any government - locks outside the Panama Canal. They are at the in Puget Sound entrance of the canal and form the only barrier between the fresh water lakes, nine feet above Puget Sound at high tide, and salt water. The concrete walls are 55 feet high, 50 feet wide at the base, and 8 feet at the top. The major chamber is 825 feet long, 80 feet wide, and holds a depth of 50 feet of water. The minor chamber is 150 feet long and 30 feet wide. Ocean-going craft go through the larger chamber in twenty minutes and small craft through the smaller chamber in five to ten minutes. The total cost of the canal, including right-of-way, excavation, locks and other features, was $5,000,000 borne by the government, state, county and mas Mary Mary Beland 651 North Gakwood Ave, Lake Forest, Illinois 83-27 to chicago to sel school. ta summa Prill tryt Brandy zel to Vancouver National Park + Stran to Chicage June 13 Flosence Clarke theme