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CANALS.
959
possible. With regard to technics, there is nowadays nothing to prevent
the satisfying the new demands, bnt naturally the costs of construction
will be highly increased.
In the existing Trollhätte Canal, built about sixty years ago, the number of
canal-locks is 16, the length of the vessels 31-5 meters, their beam 7 meters, their
deepdrawing 3 meters, and their displacement 250 tons. The time required to pass
the canal-locks in this canal is at best 3 hours. For the now projected canal, 6
canal-locks are proposed. The largest vessels that will be able to pass it have
a length of 110 meters, a beam of 14-5 meters, a deepdrawing of 6 meters, and
a displacement of 5,000 tons. Vessels of moderate dimensions ought to be
able to pass all the canal-locks in about an hour’s time.
The roused interest for improved canals also shows itself in the
Government bill to the Riksdag in 1900, when a vote of credit was
asked for towards the investigation of new canal-routes of great
dimensions from the Venern via the Vettern to the Baltic, from the
Venern via the Hjelmaren to the Mälaren, besides several shorter
canal-lines. By means of such canals, constructed with about the same
dimensions as those intended for the Trollhätte Canal, direct traffic
between inland ports and foreign countries as well as transit-traffic
between the Baltic and the North Sea could be advantageously arranged.
It is to be hoped that, during the new era which has now begun for
canal-building, Sweden may maintain, within this domain, the prominent
position it occupied already long ago.
The Söder telge* Canal. ~
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