, 1863-04-09

conditions abfolute1y necessary to the use Of the
prope1]e1) 20 great loss Of Tonnage is the result
/ Eorsc power becomes more economical. A large
| sum Of money has been expended, and ths effort
been banned BY the o6rtaclc above referred 10.
The Delaware and Rartan Canal In New Jersey
81 i,et wide: In navigating them By steam, Tho
| saruc obstacles were encountered as in the Eric
and oswcgo; but the Delaware and Iearitan was
own best interests, heightened the old short locks
~ adding II! feet, making 10 feet IL length by =
s oes Il 9h 81 n51 ~ bT ho
plnnr rg gate, hy the usc Of which boats are pass.
cd aEouT p feet longer than b. use Ct tho 1atrc
gated Dy steamers, making about tic sane time
between New. York and Philadelphia as freight
Willis these improvements have been adopted in
In our efster Sfate, our own canal system has in
use to dny scnrce solitary idea which was not
struck; while railroads. in private hands have been
improved and rcyolut!onizcd by new Discoveries
al@ost yearly. until the working ability Of the rail-
roads Of to-day bears about the SAME relation to Tho
ralroad coincdcnt with our canals, that the e. =
Canal, y hen first completed, bore to wagon road 8
Iaf viii al this lack Of enterprise on the part OF
the State, the following are amoog the results OF
canal operations, viz From the year 1855 to isss
lhcy have transported 7.5aG4 4sN tons Of proner;y
nnd an ddTs'9EEe year Of as tons They
nothing Of the rerenue tho citizens hsye deriyed
IN transporting property upon them. probably
4spp piF cent than the ave M
been s?0 EGG &C. averaging for the tweutTseTen
years above comprised b1t 81 59-100per cent. npoa
f'oss fGceints; the most expensive Season reach.
1af M a ~, Per SSnt and ;he past season but II
y thg magnlhcent sum OF s4s.11sN N3.a3 Is tlc.e
an inalvluhal or corporate business enterpIse with
IN IN thla STATE which can show balance sheet more
Dettef worth pursuing:
For the future, the prospect to your committee
setms t y most hatt: ring: With western coautry
that it is get fresh in the recollection Of moss ac
tors In business life, when breadstuGa and proyi-
s1ons from th!s State fed the e.ni;rant who now
his products to our narEets; while yet but ut abont
one-tenth Of the soil lying westward from this
state and east Of tue Mississippi River has been
brought into cultivation. We may regard ell this
az capital stock for our transportation facilities
with prompt and intelligent action on the part
OF our state Legislature. we can welcome Wrstern
ten millions Of tons Of propc; II By horse power
and twenty millions Of tons by the use Of steam
Il is cstin,ated By parties whose practical acqna-
tance well qualities them to judge that should tho
locks he 20 improved as to pass bouts si1uplT as
urge as can conveniently navigate the present
channel. the constitutional requirements upon
laid aside to pay every debt at maturity, and the
carrier derive an abnEdant remuneration at one
tht1d Of the Average price OF freight for the past
season.
Thu Joint Committee gave your delegates pa-
tent herring, and we can but hope will report q
bill to the Legislature favorable to the measures
advocated.
DAVID Dows, Chairman.
Gro. 3. POWELL, Seer, tary.
At meeting 0f the Commercial Association OF
The NV YORK Produce Exchange, the foregoing
report OF the delegates to Albany WAS read and
adopted, amt on motion resolved:
WHEREAS, It appears BY the report OF the COM
mittee, that the tonnage shipped at Buffalo and
OsHeso the past season, upon the Erie aud Oswe-
go Canals, was nearly three millions; aud Nc are
informed that during the year the through tonnage
from Lake. Eric upon the n. Y. Central and Il. T.
tone: and whereas, It is notorious that these
several avenues Of trade were taxed to their fuu
capacity the last year aud that the rates Of freight
were c1e5blantly ttlh aud that some relief is in
difpcnsable: therefore,
Ee<tlred: That Immediate legislation ia nccessa-
r to provide Gheap and ample avenue for the
Of the rapidly increasing supplies products OF tic
Northwestern Statea with little delay as practi-
cable, and That VIC urge npon this Legislature aud
especially the members e from Mt< ciy Brook
at tie present session. aud order the work Of I'M
p!oytment commenced, if thcJ do not i,o.c provide
for its entire completion.
R<Atrtd, That as the railways from Lake Erie to
the Hudson River were very fully taxed last year
with the through tonnage oflttle over one million
tons, they have large and increasing way tratilc,
be quite expensive for a distance OF nearly 800
rilce: 'or grain and other heavy products, We can
only hf!s! fel1e1 chenp and adequate in the nj amer
proposed By the committee, by the enlargement OF
the locks upon the Erie and osweso canals, so as
TO admit the passage Of boats twenty feet wifis
By = lons-with cargo OF about GO tons, which
We aFe fat:fed to learn can be done In one water
md spring. az like work was faw years since in
the State Of New Jersey without interruption to
at tFiflisg cost compared with the I'M
noItanse u tl;e work requiring no enlargement OF
me tfthk or channel OF the canas, Or other change
IN t1eit constructurcs. That II as has been d.
lcged there shond be- short supply Of water, it
WIZ Only be npon tile Rome Level. where it can be
eatlly, theapiy and Simply supplied from Fish
the present State Engineer.
Eest}Tkd, That by the enlargement Of one fsn- nj
locks upon said canals to the riza bcsor, statrd