Chincoteague Islander, December 22, 1894

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Transportation -- Water - Channel and harbor dredging

The board of engineers, to whom was referred the subject of a ship canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware, a project set on foot by the city of Baltimore, have decided that the most practicable and available route is what is called the Back Creek route. This is practically the route of the present canal from Chesapeake City of Delaware City. The Board seems to have had an eye more to coast defenses, than to the commercial advantages of Baltimore. And thereat the people of Baltimore are unmistakably indignant. This postpones for sometime to come, any further effort for a ship canal direct from Baltimore to Delaware bay. In this connection too we are sorry to say that an effectual quietus has been put upon the improvement of the inside waterway from Chincoteague to Cape Charles, by the report of the Engineers that it is not worthy of an appropriation for its improvement.