length, while those by the more northerly route would be but three and one-half miles in length. A saving of six million cubic yards of water by evaporation in the Casselman's route made that way far more advantageous. The lockage on the Deep Creek route was eight hundred and seventy-three feet more than by the Casselman route; on the other hand this was equalized by the fact that the tunnel on the latter route was to be four miles and eighty yards long, while the Dewickman tunnel on the Deep Creek route was only one mile and five hundred and sixty-eight yards long. With all factors taken into account, it was estimated that the Deep Creek route would cost $2,861,288.90, and the Casselman's or Flaugherty Creek route $2,324,315.37, or more than a half million dollars less than the Deep Creek route.
This Middle Section, therefore, extended from Cumberland, or the western extremity of the Eastern Section, to the mouth of Casselman's River in the Youghiogheny, the "Turkey Foot" of pioneer days.[1] Its length was seventy miles and one thousand
