. (25, Zweig) With the charter now in hand, Love extensively promoted his model city through ads, circulars and even "brass bands playing his original ditty." (2, Love Canal Report) Manufacturers quickly lined up to open plants along the canal. May 1894, construction in the LaSalle area began. The proposed canal would be 80ft widex30ft deep. 3,000 feet was excavated when Love's dream collapsed.
             A financial depression hit the country in 1896, discouraging the necessary financial backers. This was the most significant factor explaining the projects demise. Another factor had t do with the power source. Louis Tesh discovered a way to transmit electrical current economically over a distance using alternating current. Now factories did not have to pay for expensive plots of land near power sources. As a result, his backers deserted him; the remaining land was auctioned in 1910.
             The only remain of Love's dream Model City was a partially built canal. Several decades afterward, it served as a swimming hole for th
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