St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-18

of 1888 feet. This will reverse the
current of Champlain, and enable us
not alone to maintain a ship canal, but
to supply the towns and villages along
the valleys of the Hudson with a pure,
wholesome, and inexhaustible water
supply.
These canals, you understand, are
to be made large enough so that a YES
sci may steam through at full speed.
The time from Lake Erie to Montreal
will be reduced to thirty-two hours,
and from Erie to New York to sixty
hours, and from Montreal to New York
to thirty-three hours.
But while this saving in time is
important, the saving in cost will be
far more so. Existing methods of
handling commodities are too costly (;
hence the Western producer can only
realize half or less than half the price
for which his produce sells in the East
ern market, while he pays very high
prices for what he buys.
"a few examples will show how the
Western farmer will benefit by better
and cheaper methods of handling com>
moditieS. The farmer gets but 40 cents
per bushel for wheat which sells at
the seaboard for So cents; while ans
thracite coal, which costs S1.25 per ton
to produce, costs him 81 to 50 a ton.
The farmer, getting 40 cents per bushel
for an average crop of fifteen bushels,
gets but Sc gross per acre; If he farms
16O acres his gross earnings are $3.50 a
year.
1--WE expect to save az cents per
bushel freight charge on his grain, and
something on return freightS, be-
sides two or three rehandlings, total
saving of at least cents per bushel,
or 121a per cent added profit on his
business.
TO SHIP LIVE CATTLE.
1.-The farmer gets a yet smaller part
of the final price of meat. If the cattle
are sent live, he has to pay high rail-
road freights, unaffected by water
competition. If they are dressed at
Chicago, he has to pay high freights
and the cost of re-icing the meat cars
five or more times. We will enable
him to ship live cattle by steamer as
quickly as by rail, and far cheaper and
better, while dressed meat will be
taken from the cold storage of the
abattoir in cold storage on the steamer
TO the cold storage at the place OF
consumption, delivering the meat in
the best condition for a quarter the
present freight charges, which saving
VIII go to the farmer, and add so much
to his profits.
Whoever would profit largely must
serve. greatly. The people win not
pay for that which is useless. The
gentlemen associated in this enter
prise believe it to be demanded by the
present conditions of trade and trans,
portation, that it can be built by PR
vate enterprise, and that it will be a
profitable investment.
AS final word, let me say that we
have no notion of detractfng trade
from New York city, as some people
and some newspapers seem to suspect.
Nobody ever made a dollar in trying
to divert trade out of it's natural
course. That is beautiful way of
losing money. The lessons of the
pennsylvania canal and the Pennsyl-
Van1a railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio,
the. Hoosac Tunnel, the Grand Trunk
and the present Canadian canals.
ought to teach any observing man
that on this continent great trans
portation route must have New York
city at one end and the great West on
the other. Toward that end the MARI
time Canal of North America seeks
corporate existence. We trust that
the people of New York state will see
their very obvious interest, and grant
this, and not decide to tie their hopes
OF commercial ascendency to the tail
of a MULE