Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-09-05
GREATER GOLDSBORO
$300,000,0O0 Loan To Be
Asked For Waterways
Improvement.
The Industrial World Is Now Striving
to Secure at Great Cost OF
Wealth and Labor What
GOldSbOrO BY FOrtu-
itOuS Location Now
Has Close at
Hand.

Apropos of what the ARGUS has had
already to say about Goldsboro's sup
erbly advantageous contiguity to the
sea and to the Atlantic's best harbor-
at ''the Capes''-we give our readers
the following extracts, in point, from
a page article in this weeks issue of the
Baltimore Manufacturers Record,
written from New Orleans, which ex-
plains itself the purpose for (which we
publish it:
New Orleans, La, August pa del
egation at least 100 strong will go from
New Orleans to attend the deep water
way convention at Memphis on October
4, while many towns in Louisiana and
of sending smaller delegations. John
NJ. Parker, Louisiana member of the
board of governors of the Lakes to the
Gulf Deep Waterway Association, the
organization under whose auspices the
convention will be held, authorizes the
tiude of the people of the lower Missis-
sippi valley:
Relatively, we are just as much in
terested in the improvement Of the
Ohio, Missouri, Red, Arkansas, White
| and Tennessee rivers as we are in the
digging of the Chicago ship canal to
connect the great lakes and the Missis-
| sippi river. Our idea is to work in the
| interest OF the general plan to secure
internal waterway improvements Oh
the biggest practical scale. Once deep
| channel shall have been secured be-
tween the lakes and the Mississippi
river an impetus will be given the gen.
eral plan that will prove very difficult
| to sidetrack in the event any enmity
should develop in Congress later on.
The cheapest of freight transport rtion
is that carried on by water. Our rivers
are public property. The Governmen ent
collects neither toll nor tax for the use
of them. Now we want the Govern
ment to improve these rivers in order
that we may transport our freight and
farm products in logical directions free
from the incon onveniences, delays and
excessive costs imposed by a railroad
system which cannot keep pace with
the rapidly increasing requirements OF
commerce.
"The Memphis convention, which
will be attended by President Roose-
velt, the Inland Waterway Commits
sion, some 20 State Governors and
about 5000 delegates, will decide upon
a definite policy and a definite plan OF
action.''
"Pitts burg will ship her coal, iron
and steel products down an improved
Ohio to tidewater in the Gulf, and Kan
sas beef will find easy steamboat trans
portation to it's world markets. Boat
lines will pick up Arkansas cotton
from points now inaccessible.
1.-THE relative maximum efficiency OF
railroad transportation has, in the
opinion of careful students OF the stu
alton, been reached, and railroad engi-
neers now claim that more than $5.-
, 900, OOO, 900 in cash would be required
to give the railroads the facilities
needed to handle in an efficient man
, ner the nations increasing commerce
| Three hundred million dollars spent
on waterway improvement in the Mis-
sissippi valley would permanently re-
, lieve the congestion in some 40 Of the
richest and most prosperous States in