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SAULT SAINTE MARIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 236 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Chippewa county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., on See also:Saint See also:Mary's See also:river, at the outlet of See also:Lake See also:Superior and at the E. end of the upper See also:peninsula. Pop. (1890) 5760; (1900) 10,538, of whom 5329 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census), 12,615. It is served by the See also:Canadian Pacific, the See also:Duluth, See also:South See also:Shore & See also:Atlantic, and the Minneapolis, Saint See also:Paul & Sault Sainte Marie See also:railways. A railway See also:bridge (3607 ft. See also:long, completed in 1887) and See also:steam ferries connect it with the Canadian See also:town of Sault Sainte Marie (pop. 1901, 7169) on the opposite See also:side of the river. The See also:principal buildings are the See also:Court See also:House, City See also:Hall, See also:Post See also:Office, See also:Custom House and See also:Carnegie Library (1905). Fort See also:Brady, in the south-western See also:part of the city, is an See also:infantry See also:garrison; the old Ft. Brady (built about 1822) in another part of the city is still See also:standing. The river is here nearly i m. wide and falls 20 ft. in three-fourths of a mile; it has been made navigable by See also:lock canals for vessels See also:drawing 20 ft. of See also:water. The See also:North See also:West See also:Fur See also:Company built a lock here in 1797–1798. A See also:canal 5700 ft. long, navigable for vessels of 11.5 ft. See also:draught, was completed by the See also:state in 1855.

Between 187o and 1881 the Federal See also:

government widened the canal to See also:loo ft., made the draught 16 ft., and built the Weitzel lock, 515 ft. long, 8o ft. wide, 6o ft. at See also:gate openings, with a lift of 18-2o ft.; in 1896 the See also:Poe lock (on the site of the old state locks), having a lift of 18-2o ft., and measuring 800 ft. X loo ft., was opened, and the canal and its approaches were deepened. In 1908 the government began the widening of the canal above the locks and the construction of a new lock, 1350 ft. long between See also:gates and having a draft of 24.5 ft. at extreme See also:low-water. The estimated cost of this lock and approaches is $6,200,000. In 1907 the See also:commerce passing here during the See also:navigation See also:season of eight months and twenty-three days amounted to 58,217,214 tons of See also:freight, valued at more than $600,000,000; the commerce passing through the canals at this point is larger than that of any other canal in the See also:world. There is a See also:ship canal (I* m. long) on the Canadian side of the river, which was completed in 1895 at a cost of $3,750,000. From the rapids opposite the city two water-See also:power See also:plants (of 50,000 and 10,000 h.p. respectively) derive their power; the larger, a See also:hydraulic water-power canal (costing, with power equipment, $6,500,000) is 11 m. long, and extends from the lake above to a power-house below the rapids; in this power-house are 320 turbines. The See also:total value of the factory product in 1904 was $2,412,481, an increase of 231.3 % over that of 1900. Much See also:hay and See also:fish are packed and shipped here. The See also:place was long a favourite fishing-ground of the Chippewa See also:Indians. It was visited by the See also:French missionaries Rambault and See also:Jogues in 1641 and by Pere Rene Menard in 166o. In 1668 Jacques See also:Marquette founded a See also:mission here.

In 1671 the See also:

governor-See also:general of New See also:France called a See also:great See also:council of the Indians here and in the name of the See also:king of France took formal See also:possession of all the See also:country S. to the Gulf of See also:Mexico and W. to` the Pacific. The mission was abandoned in 1689; but as a trading post of See also:minor importance—for a See also:time protected by a palisade fort—the See also:settlement was continued. In 1879 Sault Sainte Marie was incorporated as a See also:village; in 1887 it was chartered as a city. For an See also:account of the mission see See also:Antoine I. Rezek, See also:History of the See also:Diocese of Sault Ste Marie and Marquette (2 vols., See also:Houghton, Mich., 1906–1907) ; see also A. B. See also:Gilbert's " A See also:Tale of Two Cities" in See also:Historical Collections, vol. 29 (See also:Lansing, 1901) of the Michigan See also:Pioneer and Historical Society.

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