The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-17
CANAL FACTS.
Answers to the Arguments OF ECONOMY
In the Hundred.Aiillion job.


To THE EDITOR or THE suN--sh: Tho
statement OF the Canal COMMITTEES embraces
practically four points: /. That the CONNER
cial bodies have been seeking proper 'slo,
waterway developments. :. That these wiz
be freight regulators. 3. Water transporta-
ton Is of advantage 10 nil. L. lndorsng inc
statement of Carnegie, I'VE intended to manu-
facture pig iron on Lake Erie to supply Roch.
ester. Utica. Syracuse. Troy, New lotx anu
Eastern ports" and Offering cheaper pig IRON
provided It's manufacture 10 conhheo w oie
upper Lakes as now. and these 10 nave tne
profits of manufacture and Buffalo the toll
and transfer
The answ ers thereto are evident;
L. That It was the deep-water advocates
who moved Governor Bluck to appoint
Commerce Comn,isslo as to the deoine o!
comneroe OF New York and IN TO the neeo OF
proper waterways isec intimatlon III oiohhs
paragraph of my brief on Water Transporta-
ton Through Great Lakes TO Seaboaro. Win
Special Reference to Adequate Deep wafer
ways to Hudson" In report OF such comhhls.
sion-whch brief Is at this time worthy OF
notice and publication, and likewise moVeo
Governor Roosevelt to strenuous action In
this regard. And that the self-constituted
friends Of the canal" and representatives
OF the commercial bodies Of the state, were
then aroused and stepped In TO limit actioh 10
l,000-ton bargcway, lest It get peyono tner
present facilities for buslness-and such bodies
are all of either New York OF Bunalo. as the
Rochester Chamber of Commerce h opposed
to the barge canal and is for a deep WATER
way and a majority Of the Syracuse ooaro'
and probably Albany though unwilling as
vet to take formal action. And that this ], OOO-
ton canal il inadequate, and therefore im-
proper for either the State or nation to unoer-
take, for the parallel railways carry train
loads OF about 1908 tons, or double. Inc
rival Canadian ways are IL feet. or about 8'ooo
tons, and the projected ways TO the Gun oy
the Ohio Valley. and the Chicago canal ex-
tension in Illinois are also on the l4-loot
basis; and because the history OF the 300
canal shows that any great Increase IN tranlo
does not occur until the canal Is over 1000
tons dimension. and the history OF the Cana
dian canals shows that even any stepdown
from ordinary Lake dimensions, now over 900
tons. hurts the route and fails to accommodate
business.
:? The report Of the Deep Waterway Board
OF Survey shows that the freight rate on II
will be 81 of mill per ton-mile. That OF
the bargcway, as shown by Governor Ooell'
will be .sS OF a mill, or three times as much
nearly As the partisans OF the .oOO-ton barge
canal do not claim an anuull capacity therefor
of over 10 o0U 900 tons. aud ns the deep water
.
&c, ooo. 900 tons year. which was actually car
ried through the 500" canal last year. II can
be readily shown that such adequate and
proper waterway will allow a toll Of rs OF
NIL per ton-mile on its $4,000, 900 tons bust
Hess. and then its freight rate. 81. plus TON OF
%, makes a .55-mill transportation rate against
the IS ON tho barge canal cost OF transporta-
ton. So that, as against the bargeway, the
deep waterway or ship canal is not only a
H.ttn hA a mi
also at the same uimc revenue producer. as
such toll on the 500 miles, Buffalo TO New York.
on SUCH business would produce q. SOC. 900: or.
If limited to the 10! miles Of actual canal.
sgOl. 900.
B. All that they say as to advantages Of
water transportation was ilrSt promulgated
by tis deep waterway advocates and borrowed
BY the ,O0o-ton partiaans- Just ms they have to
borrow our surveys II order 70 s ars pr2per
BILE 10 the one more than the other big
route brings business. Let MS make water
81 ss square var aes. Yssse of
5000 tons at 1.56 miles an hour in the l02 miles
OF canal section, and have al the rest bet ween
found economically best on the Lakes, and We
will draw all the business OF these. both Amer
Which az snail barseway. less than existins
and projected rival routes, canpot-.--wth, its
transfer q. Buffalo !ts eooton nit, and its
ing speed OF only three mles an housi 1oh-
siicration OF this the lrenas OF e1e eahan aEoiu.
a. they AVOID me unique aaoam.Sss, 10 20
quote MT carnegie, OF an WY na.u' a. uoui.i
Of water oil ms state l3steau OF an aIt.iIG ,
harEcwayo OF Y lcet-ana,. in,eIie tr,t WI u
! roads and raiirosas nfiases nhu 'e G .aseso
Of over $50 miles irom h.n ao 70 ny "a s &c.
ead syracuse to Oneida LaSe a. oost 70 tne
OF u ice, witn nine locks and only twelve
niles OF canai VIII brihe lh" n.Wu-oon I.ah.
vessel into Ohtarto " i'he hours, aiu COS.
/ but s+3. 900. 600 Another sc".,on, WIN 9n' i,
canal Of i,st tven,y.sevsn milfs WI make
! adequate deep waterway 70 untloa Lake, an
other natural BODY y Ma'a, tT"n.H,one ,uises
long, over 80 Ieei deep lor iourteen niles
While short spur o, niue over IlVc i'rs WIZ
/ likewise bring the 9oS-1on VESSEL lnto VnoiI.
dGsa Lake. and thence on mo inc ones'
Lakes system and VIII cost inst about G as care
| vita little over lorty miles o. WaterWaE' nnG
/ no, much over twenty-five miles Q! canal ano
! AZ d cost oil s63 .ooo,uW- no more tnAh tne pro-
| iec,ed barge canal to these lakes we can
bring the s,ooo-ton vessel instead OF l,ouSton
barge into central New toIK. ana inns, not al
! toms and internal revenue. which viii remain
! unchanged, at Federal expense. or througn
! some cooperative ARRANGEMENT costing the
| state very little; But from onondagn me canal
| izaton oil the Oneida ana seneca rlvers-nG
more than now proposed-" WIN IN ~ Sa!naa ano
lakes with Qswege and the lake s'stG,m IKE Se
sary hargeway. from Clyde TO Buffalo. thus
by bringing coal from the southern tier BY these
lakes to the larger system; enlisting pennsyl'