The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-29
NEWS O h'lH'1's
F" question Aff{uthern Rail,
roads aqkays.
DORCHESTER i'll MANAGER
N.set' ana Liabsthe La pore.
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ON

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tho .,s,. o are az themselves to
'pe Southern StatA -, as..,.
report than was acbsm IN 10. =,
,ho Dig Joffr hands along
,s ~, - winch tworking. for ii
IS not alone in thd 80 non,,,..,..
STATISTICS that the 81 hean v..,,,r
Ta,. -. Vi ~ ior years or more.
in -. ''alis,ics Portation given
III The last census RAJ ins,orcn rh.
railroads Of Louisian. a., n.r.,ss
,horo,. mexico ariped together
vh,. u oreuitedl total mileage
winch falls about 2!ep, below ,so
actual figures. The .pcv a,os ~,
emu with this, hover ,ess ,,,n -
~, Vi siid abed mileage is
put down as being ed while not
over 90 per cent thu roror,sa "a
having the necessa,,i,ment with
1,t
winch to do business. snancs exh,b,t
nSed up for these roatven mora than
me above, for not mon half 90 tbem
" crown therein to either assets
:, 'iapili'ies and theirng capacity is
ignored in Instances. As
y 'ne peculiar grouplnsted in treating
\ railroads. in the SIND West the
n'erstate commerce mission is re-
ponsioie therefor and worse Il any
ling than the statlstitached thereto
u 'ne absurdity of liz together for
'a'iSticai purposes raj property at
CIV orleans or Galvewith the same
ma OF property in thighborhood of
ma INA re, N. M, is tooarent to need
tnins attention to, iportation and
ner conditions being sslmilar in each
stance that no sort ir average can
ssioly be reached in themIses in com
aenins Jointly the bu,s OF railroads
GRATED in New MAxicosas and Louis
IA.
- ''eatips of water isportation ia
i'ieh the census depamt is as much
iauil as In the mr. of railroad
To say hing of other
.'es 1t exhibits the mo.bsolute ignor-
e Oh the facts with gard to Texas
Lerways. Its official N of this State.
ten up at great expenshows the Rio
hde to be navigable, Preside, or
miles further than amboat is run
tnat stream. Red rlvis supposed 10
to point oosite Gaines
:, while the Neches, Sine and Trluty
put down as being naable for alssrt /
luiies, Buffalo bayou Id the Brazos
appearing on the maps being al all
gable.
he census department not alone IN
rory IN its Ignorance TRANSPORTATION
itlons In the Southwestern the hydro
NC once OF the navy 9artment runs
not race in this RESET. Its chart
aiveston bay is beautril example of
Ihaccuracy of its work showing as it
out one railroad entdng Galveston
1t one ehridge across thbay, although
are four fedei 70 ARA esISp'dges un-
'ntrol of the war department across
ay. and this Is the map from which
lnders of war vessels and shipping
are supposed to get their informa-
bout Galveston h2rbor. Equal to the
in point of inaccuracy is the same
!; chart Of tracks for full powered
vessels. According to said chart
is no route to European ports from
pint south of New York. Baltimore
dited with a route to Para, Brazil,
News with a route TO St.
is, and no more Charleston, Sa-
h. Brunswick and Mobile are not sup
to be accessible to shipping at all.
"a, the great free port and coaling
of the Caribbean sea. does not APP
0 be in the track of commerce. while
nviIle and Pensacola are not on the
Galveston and New Orleans have
route to Havana thereon, and that's
With regard to Curacao, it may be
that Il is visited three times per
by the magnificent steamers OF the
line from New York.
point in all this is that while the
pays its full share of the enormous
Z getting out the reports and charts
departments referred TO 1t gets none
benefits thereof, because of the care
SIS with which the data concerning
contained therein is prepared, al
/ It is distributed under the guarantee
henticity, which, in the popular mind
es itself1o everything issued by the
lment. LA'F'