Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-12-05


would present 1t. Yet New York, fearless OF
! the result. has given y 600 600 In secure the
completion utthls possible rival. She has found
that her hnc ot cheaP canal transportation has
attracted such iucessant floods of commerce
from the West Is to impose upon her the ncccs-
! sltN ot multiplying her mean. aud modes Of con
veying il. Hence, she is constructing railwa,
upon the banks of the Hudson, II accommodate
! that trade duriug the seventy five days in the
Year of Ice in that uver; aud hcuco also has she
built the great Eric railroad tu accommodate
the necessities OF the immense Western trade
Tor the five months during which her canal, are
closed.
The average cost per mile of the New Work
railroads has been S1i 600. while that Of her
canals exclusive the Erie enlargement, has
been hut S21 13f, on inclusive of that cNpcndi
ture. S1SoOO That ot our own canal To Ruchs
anan. exclusive of lateral works, has been S36
2lS per milo. The cost of all the Massachusetts
railroads has been sis 600 pei mile aud that of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, Sol 2S3. The
railroads of Great Britain have cost Sllo 900; ol
France, Sll0 900; of GERMANY. $40 600. Bel
glum, $4,000, and of other European eoun-
tries, from SO 900 10 500 900 per mc In
general, II may be said, that wherever railroads
have been constructed for the purpose of com
pcting with canals, or carrying the same species
of trade with them. they have cost at least na
much per mile as those works. The cost of
completing our water line, therefore, will be
less than will be required to construct lailrhdd
over the central route. capable of Transporting
lis heavy trade. The total cost of the Massn-
chusctis railroads, at The close of 1919. toil
miles in length, was Sl5 ia. .iGS; aud their nett
income iol that year VAS 2.SaO,9SI dollars; be
my l-3 per cent. uopn their cost. HE total
cost of the New York canals, (GS5 miles long,l }
Il
stated. 33.9ll l5S dollars, and ihcir nett income
exclusive of railroad tolls, 2,593,llS dollars, ur
2 81 per cent. upon their cost. Excluding the
cost OF the Enc enlargement. (Which is yet
productivity the nett Income was per ccut
upon the cost OF construction.
The total quantity ol Indian corn that entered
the New York caunIs at their western termua=
ton, from other states. in 1870 was 3,5S3, ,lO3
hushcs OF this $50 i13 bush. came from the
direction of Canada, aud 500 300 bushels from
the states southwest oi Canada OF this latter
amount 2,5i9, 80 bush. came from two ca
nals of Ohio, which terminate at Toledo aud
Cleveland. \ reduction oi the tolls upon this
article 81 l-3 per cent, upon the Erie canal
produced an increase III the quantity entering
that work, at Buffalo alone, during that season
of | i 10000 bushels This fact moi only proves
the capacity of that leading staple of lho West
10 bear canal transportation 10, long distances
but, considering that this crop natures about
the time oi the closing mp of the Northern ca
nals, demonstrates the Fact, thai our own water
line, if completed, would monopollze this impor-
tant trade. therefore lciteratc the opinion cX-
pressed III my last annual message, thai the
completion of our canal would give to Norfolk
the monopoly Of that great and increasing staple
of Evaporation.
During the year 1919, the quantity of tohac-
co which entered the Eric canal AT Buffalo was
,G0l $50 pounds, thai which entered the Penn
syIyauia canals at Pittsburg, 3,IlS,ll1 pounds,
aud that which entered Baltimore upon the Bal
timorc and Dino railroad, l,l9G hngsheads.-
The grcat bulk of tins tobacco WAS raised in
la iludcs south of the mouth of the kanawha.
aud would have taken the route of our improve
ment if completed to Richmond, in preference
To those more distant routes io markets inferior
! - ou,s Those ,nnvcneuts ,r tnbafcn exhibit
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II Is d tfni''Naoic 'de' '"at 'a'Er ai""''','7 ,'
sugar, mo'asscs, rlcc, cotton and West India
fruits consumed III western \, York, winch
have arrived there by way of the Mssssippi and
Ohio rivers and the Ohio cannl4 A memorial
Of p,U,l c;,;,e,s ,n III. N Y.l c,n,I hoard
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l'lSol S"9ai n'' ''o' '''Nuni,u III '''i' ,a9 "
lone during me years 1915 ana l9l', hth p''ll
supplied by the way ot the MisslSsippi rNei ana
the western improvements. This fact Indicates
a rnnn,l. \ llp movement i'm 1hc trade nassiue
c.,,, ,l,o W., Ind;ea and ON, Southern st,,cs
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