The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-03-19
TIM ARGUMENT
or Gen. Enochn Before Committee on
Rivers and Harbors, Urging the Com
rnerciai and Military Importance OF u
Shin Canal


rnercial and Military Importance OF u
Ship Canal
WASHINGTON, March 12.--Upon the
motion for n ship canal across Ohio,
Gen. Enochs spoke at length before the
house committee on rivers and harbors
The f4Iiowing is an extract
1.-THE improvement of our inland
rivers and their connection with the
great lakes is of commanding impor-
tance l believe that the present dis
position of the American people is to
improve our waterways. will give a
brief sketch of the commerce of our
rivers and lglies for the purpose of
showing the Importance of their con-
nection by a deep water or ship canal
"The U. $. treasurylist for 1ssD shows
the following enrolment of lake craft;
Steam vessels /, ,567 sailing vessels.
1 1,12G; rugged vessels, 1862; total 2,s55.
with registered tonnage of 022, COS
There are on the Mississippi river and
it's tributaries 1853 vessels of all class
es, with a tonnage of 1878, $50. The
Ohio river and its tributaries has 6,240
vessels of all classes, with tonnage of
2, 92O. 400.
The Ohio river proper has 4,s68 YES
sells of all classes, with a tonnage of
Q. .440, $50. The tonnage passing any
point on this great highway is larger
than that of London.
"The value of the vessels on the Mis-
sissippi river and it's tributaries in 1890,
according to the census report for that
| in to bn
same report, the freight moved by
these vessels for the same time was
90 405 DAG tons; passengers carried, 10,-
S5S S94; the gross earnings, SIG, S3T, SOB;
the expenses were S12, 600, 342, and the
net earnings were S3, 737. 161
From this same source OF informa-
ton we find that the Ohio river and its
tributaries have of vessels of all classes
| 6. 2a5, with n tonnage OF 1920, AGO valued
ut SO, 696 341; the freight moved, 16,
sGO tons; passengers carried, 6,5O3, 143;
the gross earnings. Sc, 7O2, 013, at an ex.
pense of $5,270, 5G7, and the net earn
ings 81, 431, ,4i6.
The number of vessels on the Mis-
sissippi river and it's tributaries, other
than the Ohio and its tributaries, is
1, 1913 against g. 245 on the Ohio and its
tributaries. The tonnage of the Missis'
sippi and it's tributaries, other than the
Ohio and it's tributaries, is 46l,
against the tonnage of the Ohio and it.
tributaries of 1920, 469.
'The tons of freight moved on the
Mississippi river and its tributaries
other than the Ohio and its tributaries
is 13 $50, 543, against that of the Ohio
and it's tributaries of 16, 041 $685.
The number of passengers carried
on the Mississippi river and its tribu
taries, other than the Ohio and it!
tributaries, is 1856, ISL, as agains
G. SOB, 143 passengers carried on the Ohit
and its tributaries.
The tributaries to the Mississippi in
cluded in these estimates are the st
Croix, Chippewa, Illinois, Missouri
Usage, Gasconade, White, Arkansas
Yazoo Washita and Red rivers.
"The tributaries to the Ohio are
the Allegheny, Monongahela, Green
Wabash, Cumberland and Tennesset
rivers.
"a few years since line of steam
boats ran on the Ohio river betwee
Cincinnati and Huntington, w. Va
connecting at the latter place with tn
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, whic
then terminated there, each boat ord
narily loaded having sufficient freigh
every trip to load three trains of twent
cars each. The registered tonnage of tn
steamer City of New York which run
between New York and Liverpool,
10. 500 tons The ordinary carload
about twenty tons This ship, ther
would load 525 cars. Divided int
, twenty-six trains of twenty cars eacl
y separated by the usual distance of te
!, minutes, this would make from twenty
: five to thirty miles OF continuous trair
, ''For the first time in the history {
p, this country vessel was loaded la!
: wear in Duluth with 900, 900 bushels
, wheat and without breaking the bul
y was delivered in Liverpool. 1t is no III
4 common thing now for barges
;. be loaded on the Mississippi rive
q with 10000 bushels of grain an
n landed at its mouth. Wha
y the government can do, and wi
do in the near future is to improve OF
!. lakes and inland rivers, and connet
a | LIltul WlJl 'b Cdhil ClldG NCSScAo Sdi
# built at any of their ports from Amer
can material by American lab Dor, loade
with American products manned b
American seamen and under the Anne
e lean flag, landed at any port on tt
@ globe. 1t has been stated on GOO
t authority that the freight which passe
l. through the St Marys Falls can
l. in 1890 exceeded by 2,257,S tons tt
It entire tonnage of all nations whiC
@ passed through the Suez canal in 1Ss
g Statistics show that about half of a
" the grain that is put into New Yoi
l, passes through the Erie canal Th
v illustrates the immense traffic whic
/. would go through "A deep-water or shi
$, canal between the lakes and the rive
as it would complete n system of ma
igable water ways between the nor
and the south. Statistics also sho
r that our lake commerce is greater tina
r our ocean commerce"
a. Ordered to tho Behring Sea.
lc WASHINGTON, March 12-Secreta
20 Trncy has ordered the u, :. 5. Rang