Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-18

20 "uiCo ~ tWpt llpS uny' o"N
coal and Z mule wagons TO carry down the
mules) each trip. &c. going 50 miles a day, the
40 wagons each carry 50 cwt. coal each trip.
Total l34 tons.
Is mules, at S3 cts. a day 80 "a
4 drivers, 90 do 90 5 60
Sl2 81: l34=1o CTS.
for 8 miles, or ! cts. a ton a mile.
This l I cents a ton a mile is the net cost: with
out any contingencies; the cost last year was l73
cents for s miles, being say 2 cents. The differ
ence between the two was made up Of the super
intendent of the rail road, hands assisting to pro-
vide for the animals, lost time through the sea-
son, keeping animals in the winter, &c. making
the whGe cost at a close estimate, 416-100 cents
a ton a mile, exclusive of interest account and
grease.
Canal Estimates of Transportation and Repairs
Of Canal.
The boat carrying Is tons makes a trip loaded
down to Easton, 46 miles, and returns empty in
AZ days.
3 men at 90 cents =270x44 days Is
Boat 20 cents a day a Days Is
BOAT cost 500 and last 1000 days. 90 %
Ok - - tOii- " " " ~ IliCS-o WI
a mile CO.. 100.
Hear and Tear Of the Cnaal.
The lockage from Maunch Chunk to Bristol.
in tide, is 524 feet, which, is 8 feet lifts in 66
locks, distance LOG miles; &c locks will require
their gates renewed every 10 years, and the cost
of a set of gates, say S500x66- S33, 900 10 for
their duration, is, per year,
IS, 500: 100 miles, per mile S31 IS
50 hands, $50 days, being 1 hand to 2
mile repairing latter three years du-
ration it a mile l2J co
156 Is
100. 900 tons: S156 13-10O-li miles or Is
100 a mile, which. added to g. 100, makes the
total cost of transportation by canal, including
wear and tear of canal, 81I-1O0 cents a ton per
mile, exclusive of interest.
Our present cost of transportation on our ca
nal. in rough arks, is per ton per mile. l cent
To which add the wear and tear of Ca
nal, as above, do. do. Is
Total cost, at present, per mile, per
ton. ct. l5-1O0
Hence. it appears that our canal used in the ordi-
nary way, will cost less than one fourth Of a first
rate rail road.
1t may be observed that I have not noticed
the costof lock gate keepers; this was omitted,
because the water power passing from one level
to the other to Keep them up, will produce a re
venue greater than their pay.
There are two item not heretofore taken In
account, that will lessen the cost of transporta-
ton on the canal, where there is plenty of water
as in the Lehigh and Delaware, viz: one is that
as the freight is mostly downwards, half the pow
er may be saved BY letting a current pass down
the canal; the other is that by using propellers,
and having two locks at each lift, one for ascend
ing and the other descending, we can save al!
the animal power by substituting water power.
and one third of the hands; thus reducing the
cost IT transportation about one half. Our rail
road friends must allow us to avail ourselves of
Improvements in canals. if they take that course in
railroads. but in making my estimates | have
endeavored to consider what expenses hare oc-
rcursd. rather than what mag occur, for many OF
our supposed Improvements ofttimes prove lnju-
rious. rather than beneficial to those who have
been at the trouble and expense of making them.
5th mo. 90, 1850 JOSIAH WHITE.
Extract Of a letter dated at Smyrna, Goth
March, 1850" Arrivals from America, their
extent somewhat surprises us. Since the COM
mencement of Ia month there have been the
Circassian, Garland and Flora from New York
the Dove and William & Henry from Boston,
whence the Cherub and Bantam are expected
making seven cargoes in a very short time. We
are of opinion that these shipments must have
been made with view to the Black Sea, and which
must lead to disappointment,and been fomdedon
wrong intormatiOn-for American vessels are
not aHowed to go into the Black Sea; nor does
the Black Sea offer an extensive market for colo
malls; and you know that Rum is not allowed to
to be imported into the Russian ports"
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