The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-14
GREAT WATER CRAFT.

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Confidence Being Restored i'm Favor of
Water Transportation.
For many years, because of the power
full combination of the railways against
water craft of any kind, steamboats, in
most portions of America have actually
become curiosity. Anybody who has
ever taken the least trouble to inquire,
could not help but be satisfied that, as
against water transportation, railways
are not in it. But the railways have
succeeded, in almost every instance, in
driving traffic off wherever they came in
conflict with water transportation. This
has been the case on our own noble Col
umbia, one of the finest water routes in
the known world, but an open river is
soon to come, now; and thence and for
ever the scenes of life and activity will
bring to mind the forlorn hope of the
past, and the joyous development of a
country superior in any respect to any
similar scope of country on the face of
the globe. Yesterdays dispatches re-
ferred to the launch of lake steamer at
Chicago which is to carry 5000 tons of
wheat. The Buffalo Courier speaks of
| two transports, to be employed across
lake Michigan from Kewanee to Luding
ton, to carry twenty-eight loaded freight
cars each trip, 80 miles, two trips day
each, which means that their daily traf-
| fic shall amount to l12 cars of freight.
From Ludington the freight trains will
be taken by the Flint and Pere Marquette
line TO Detroit or Toledo, whence their
cargoes will be carried by lake to the
Lackawanna, in Buffalo.
| tItis bold idea," says the Railway
Age, ''but 1t is practical, and if it proves
anything, proves that the railways, in
stead of bankrupting themselves to
bankrupt and drive off water transporta-
ton, must avail themselves of such
facilities in order to succeed, and where
ever a,railway parallels route available
for water transportation to- any consid-
erable degree, the water route must be
utilized in preference to the all rail-
route" This suits the ;ColNmbia river
exactly, from The Dalles to Astoria.
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and considerable risk will be involved in
ferrying across it, especially in winter
when ice abounds, none of which OBJ
jections apply to the Columbia river
route. The peoples boats, the Dalles
City and Regulator, have made great in :
roads during the short time they have
been running to show where the differ
ance comes in between mutual benefit
home corporations, and grinding mon
opoly. concerning which the Klickitat
Leader truthfully says:
4 by the temporary tie up of the Reg
ulator those that have to ship to or fron,
Portland find that they have to dig
deeper down in their pockets than they
care about. The farmers will want their
wheat shipped this fall. No one can
deny but that through the reduced rates
of the Regulator last fall they received
an unprecedented high price for wheat,
which made them come back smiling to
their farms. What would they have re-
ceived had not the peoples boat been in
competition with the railroad? Why.
they would have received from ten to
twelve cents less for every bushel oi
wheat they sold. Is this not proof pos
tive that for number of Years the rail.
road monopoly extracted every cent
possible from the farmers2 The farmers
were far from unanimous last fall in
their support to the Regulator. Those
that did not trouble then to aid the new
company in their laudable and manly
enterprise should pledge themselves tc
support this CONNIE ndable boat Ir
shipping by the Union Pacific you are
going against your own individual in
forests, and at the same time supporting
J this uncompromising monster of mo
nopoly. Do not let them lure you int
cheap rates by way of Grants, but le
J the farmers OF Klickitat come out unani
mously and patronize the peoples boat.
this fall, even if those living in the up
per part of the valley have to haul lit
tie further-than usual.
A crevasse occurred in the bank of th,
Mississippi above st. James parish Mon
day a large force is at work trying t.
stop the breaks.
The river Danube is on a rise. TIL,
town of Raab, sixty miles northwest o
Buda Pesth is isolated from the sur
rounding country by the flood.
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