2400 Miles to Prosperity.

This article focuses on St. Lawrence Seaway. Some 2,400 miles west of the Atlantic Ocean, an icy creek ripples over black rock and foams into an inland sea. The creek is one of the headwaters of the mighty St. Lawrence River, pride of the Northeast. Actually, the St. Lawrence Seaway has been in operation for 150 years or so. Nature provided most of the route; Canada and the United States had to put their engineers to work in only a few spots. The toughest, most dogged fighters for an improved seaway are, understandably, from the Middle West and states bordering the Great Lakes.