The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-25
OTHER FELLOW GETS THE CENT,
rr\EFTT or LOWER RATE on EN-
pORT GRAIN GOES ABROAD.


s,Ol 900, 900 and interest for Benent
of English, swedish. Dutch and Da nish.
French. italians, Germans, Spanish
-Bui1alo and the Odoll Machine.
IN a discussion OF markets for American
Grain in The Sunday Sun yesterday, James
+ Hill supplied a very good answer to the
question. II an enlarged canal reduced
me cost Of carrying a bushel OF grain to
n. seaboard one cent. who will get the cent?
Mr. Hill, who sees acutely into the problem
al export trade, said
The price OF transportation has come
down, but the price Of wheat has come
down with 1t
Compare the cost OF carrying q ton OF
wheat to Liverpool or Antwerp twenty
wears ago and now and it will be found
tba, the fall in the price Of wheat from year
70 year is Just about tho difference in this
rate 1t has made wheat cheaper for the
other fellow
Then it is the foreign consumer who will
Get the benefit. II any. OF the so-called i'm
provement which IL to cost the people
Of the State Of New York 81 900 900 year
for fifty years.
DO YOU want to vote away SOL 900 900
Dr1nClIAl DtAJ NONcilDci w LhohO VASos
cheaper for the other fellow?
I, has surprised some OF the canal advo-
Gates 10 find a strong and growing opposi-
ton to the proposed expenditure In some
II the canal cities. as they are known. In
Rochester. for example, nearly all the
newspapers and a majority OF the people
are against the referendum OF the Davis
am Rochester is right on the line OF the
canal, and according to the doctrine OF the
ditch worshippers its whole prosperity
depends on the canal. To take away the
canal with the manifold blessings would
be 10 wipe the Flower City from the map.
suppose the proposition to voted
ON bv Rochester this fall was: Choose be-
tween the canal and the principal rail-
road passing through your city, Which
will YOU part with?
Would the canal get 100 votes'
Rochester gees the proposition more
clearly than Buffalo does, because in Buff
falo the elevator ring and transfer con-
tractors obscure the air with their selfish
interests.
IL the barge canal proposition included
the cheaper Lake Ontario route the Puffalo
interests would want it stipulated that no
CdDdl DdTR0 IIuBt 10 tlioo SSuiA uoNi-
gate both Lake and canal
Who's going to dredge the Hudson River
40 that the ,ooo-ton barges can come down
to New York;
The two largest barges that rim to Albany
are the William Lewis and the Harriet
Wynne. Their cargoes are from 100 to
500 tons. They have q beam Of more than
thirty feet, q length Of $50 feet and draw
close to ten feet OF water. With such
loads they find navigation OF the Hudson
slow. Sometimes it takes two tides to
get them to New York. The theoretical
barge sketched by the Roosevelt Canal
Committee is $50 feet long and rs feet
beam. Experienced navigators OF lake and
canal waters say that with 25-foot beam
and q cargo OF 600 tons the barge will
draw II feet of water The enlarged
canal is to have a 12-foot depth. 1t
Is to start at Troy Between Troy and
ALBANY are Fish House Bar and the Round
Shoals covered by only eight feet OF water.
fHow Ill the barges of ll-foot draft get
over tho shoals?
Perhaps the jumping Governor can COM
municate to the Legislature theory for
jumping them over the shoals.
When the new canal has been completed
at an uncertain cost (The Governor esti-
mated it at more than $255, 900, OOO) the hand
ling charges at Buffalo and at New York
will remain untouched. Perhaps the
elevator combine will boost them up. Part
ot the export grain trade will continue to
flow to other ports for various reasons.
one being the chea per terminals away from
New York. The testimony of the editor OF
Engineering News. the leading journal Of
that profession, is as follows.
If New York would retain it's position
in the export trade 1t must concentrate its
energies upon the question Of reducing
the cost Of handling freight at its terminal Is
70 that it may bear comparison with the
COS, at the terminals built on cheap land at
Newport News and New Orleans and other
competing Atlantic and Gulf ports Money
spent in this direction may bring returns;
but that spent on artificial waterways is
poured into a sieve