The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-02-11

gable condition, clearing the channel
and banks of distractions and the
/ commencement of lock.
| Amount expended up to June 30th,
1891, 81, 1876, 1874; amount expended
up to June 30th, 1892. $147, S34.43; bal
lance available July 1st, 1892, 1854
13; amount appropriated July 18th,
1892, $3.50 100000; appropriation. ST.
497 10000; extimate required for com
pletion of project, 81 1924, 100000;
amount that can be profitably ex-
pended for Kentucky river in fiscal
year ending June 30th. 1894, $500 000.0 90.
The following table published in the
old Yeoman several years ago, shows
the commerce of the Kentucky river
from Frankfort to it's mouth for q
period Of eight months, during which
time there was suspension of rs
days on account of repairs. coDstruc-
ton and ice. The exhibit speaks for
itself:
Miscellaneous merchandise, 1921
tons; iron, 7.705 tons salt, 500 bar
, rels -four, 279 barrels; whisky, g.
975 barrels lime, 105 barrels to-
bacco, 2,277 hogsheads; shingles, $685.,
600; grain, 88,921 sacks; stock, 1,341
head hay, 5,795 bales wood, 2.065
cords stoves, 939 1000; apples, LOO
bushels; coal, 241 $50 bushels; lum Der,
b. M, / ,051 ,755 feet; railroad ties, 100,-
600 cedar posts, 5000; junk, 1000
barrels; saw logs sold at Frankfort,
80 900; saw logs sold between Frank
fort and Beattyville, est, 10000
building stone, 1880 cubic yards
timber, So, 800 feet. Estimated value,
81 1894, 900.
For the year 1892, the Commissioners
of Internal Revenue reports the aggre-
gate collection of internal revenue
for Kentucky to be S21, 1913 ,S51.61.
The only State in excess of this is
Illinois, which is $36, 1885, 1884. The
next lower is the State of New York,
with ST. $40, 978.82, thus showing Ken
lucky, in 1892, to be second on the
list in the Union.
The total aggregate receipts of rev.
nue. paid into the United States Treas
ury by the State of Kentucky from
| 1862 to 1880, sos, 1856, PAS. Al and from
1880 to 1893, $3.50, 93S, PAL .S3; grand
total from 1862 to 1898, $299, 1928, 4S7. "a;
collections in the Seventh Internal
Revenue District of Kentucky from
! 1853 to June 80, 1892, were $39, 1884,
S5621 average annual collections for
the Seventh District for same period
$50 years. were 81 329,495.20.
The Superintendent of the Cham
Der of Commerce of Baltimore, in his
information furnished to the Secreta-
ry of the Interior. says: "The won
derful prosperity Of Pittsburgh as
manufacturing centre is chiefly due
to it's possession of a vast vein of
bituminous COAL" and the same au-
thority says that Pittsburgh, in 1881,
shipped to Louisville 61519 tons of
coal. and in 1882 100000 tons. In
1880 and 1881 she shipped to Cincin-
natl %, POP 1884 bushels, or 881 ,092 tons.
Each succeeding year up to date she
has largely increased the annual
shipment to Louisville, Cincinnati
and st. Louis. These figures are
given to show that Pittsburgh is en-
joying what belongs to Louisville;
that Pennsylvania is reaping golden
harvests, while Kentucky, with lar
ger and better coal fields, is not only
losing what nature int nded as hers,
but is annually paying tribute to the
keystone State to the tune of many
millions, and this for the very article
that we propose to reach and develop
by our river improvements.
Kentucky is the richest State nat
urally in the Union. She has the best
camel coal:in the world and miles of
1t. Her coaking coal is really better
than the famous coking coal of the
Conceivable region of Pennsylvania.
She has iron ore. fire and potting
clays. photographic stones, marbles,
and limestones in abundance"
The Kentucky and Licking rivers,
with their tributaries, penetrate the
heart of Kentucky's buried riches.
The camel cut by the Kentucky river
through the march Of time is
now presented to civilized man
as one of the most perfect
natural canals in the world. Here
nature has chiseled and hewn the
rough undressed way to field of UNI
measurable wealth and shall not we
now point with prophetic finger to
the time in the near future when art
shall have accomplished the rest;
providing the way to facilitate trans
portation, by the immediate con-
struction of the necessary number of
locks and dams, thereby securing
reciprocal trade and the establish
ment of commerce commensurate