The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans / History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce

The work traces proposals and political decisions that culminated in creating a new waterway linking the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, recounting planning debates, legislative authorization, and progressive expansion from a modest barge canal plan into a major industrial and shipping facility. It details excavation and construction methods, key engineering features such as locks, siphons, bridges and a new channel to the gulf, and analyzes economic aims, operating principles for public ownership, costs, contractors, and related port facilities, closing with comparisons of distances and the canal's anticipated role in regional industrial development.