Excerpt from The St. Lawrence Seaway Project In the preparation of this survey, the basic materials used were the reports of a Joint Board Of Engineers (appointed by the Canadian and United States governments), an Interdepartmental Report Of the United States Government, other governmental documents, and the report published by the Brookings Institution, an impartial research foundation of Washington, D. C. Original analyses as to the costs and as to the economic and political effects of the pro posed seaway were then made from this basic material. Data from such sources were believed to be the most authentic information on the subject. Of necessity, this study has reached out far beyond the confines Of the Niagara Frontier, because every port along the Great Lakes and the major ports of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico, the railroads. 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.