The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-18
COMPANY INCORPORATED no
BUILD HUNDRED AND THREE
MILES or ARTIFICIAL
WATERWAY.
COST Fifty MILLIONS
Expected to Develop Business ana
Reduce Cert Of Transportation
Enormously Government
VIII Supervise Opera
tion Of Caral When
Butt.

Washington, July IL Ships of q
500 tons burden in the near future
will be enabled to luai cotton, suear,
lumber and other supplies at New Or
lcfas, steam up the Mississippi ami
Ohio river, To the Great Lakes, anil
return laden with wheat and ole ana
coal This was made possible this
week when he national government
issued chatter to the Lake EfI'e ani
Ohio River SHIP Canal company Tine
company II 10 hgild the canal BY pr-
Yate contract, but Tie operation of tae
waterway will he ander certain fell
ernl supervision.
The ship anal. as It's name indi-
Gates. Il TO connect Lake Erie WI Ii
the Ohio iYci | s northern te minus,
unless plans are modified or changed.
i 80 be al Geneva.en lheLake, some
seven miles west of Ashtabula, 0aio.
II will entee Ire Ohio river by nt'lg<
ing the MaaoIng and Beaver rVeFs
Tho distance c9ys1ed b. tire canal
IS i0s niles, The channel viii be 100
feet wide and il viii have depth all
the war OF Ii feet IT Is estima e /
that. once completed. the canal win
Fave a capacity Of a0.0eO.o0o to. i 81
freight annually The cost Will an
proximate $50.a0D,0o0, but ii the earn
ings Of fourteen canals furnish aug
criterion Il Will ptoye highly q.
muneIaiiye investment besides benz
a bofn ~ shippers and wond fill
unhuilder Of the territory II traver es
The saving this eAannel will effect
10 shiDpur9 Will be ncormous On nm
average the cost 81 waterway trana.
rorration Ii unessixth that by rail. Al
the last national convention os tie
National Rivers and Harhos Csr~
gress, it5 president. Congr ssnan
Ransdell 81 Louisiana, adyansei soaia
figures that showed clearly what
waterway development meant. not
only 10 the shipper but to the com
sumner. WHO In the last analysis IL
the oae who feels the weight OF heavy
tolls in the advanced
r
in comparing rate, poiatel
o The fact that the average rai;foal
,haIge is 7.G mills per ton per mile.
md said.
There Is an immense e3mrerse
m the Ohio river anil thee tie
relght rate Is &c Of one mill per ton
Ter mile The tremendous commerce
NJ the lower OHIO and the Missiles
ippi between louisville ard New o.
cans is carried at freight caaFge OF
81 Of one mill per ton--less than
of the railroad charge
here is a splendid commerce on the
.ixer aud there he
reight charge I less than one-eleg
nth of the railroad charge.
what would IL amount to II In one
err we Guild carry all orr freight
y water? Last year the commerce
( this country. which moved by rail.
yas .309 .Go0.000 TONS. II It ooulf
ave been carried BY wafer the saving
lercon would have been In one year
s5O. 100000. These figures are SO
SIS Athf htBW tHFf HtdEEEE
Ieduliiy. but they are absolutely true
nd | defy any man to contradc ct
hem"
Tho Lake Erie and Ohio River
rnal viii ircrease the business that
ow is tecming On the Great Lakes
M the rivers Of the Ohio. Missi
ppl and Missouri valleys Hereto
20 they have hal no connection. one
IN the other. but when linked. the
llume OF the countrys internal com
erce is certain to make some re
a kable gaius.
The National Rivers ard IIarbors
,ngress Is interested in the project.
II only for the reason that il shows
n gradual growth OF the entiTent
favo7 II a Re um 10 waite WAY
ausportatlon. The organization Il
II piclgei to any ia1iviiual s3ene
Improvement. bat is soafnius it,
'tivites 10 arousing the American
oplc and congI ess TO the Necessity
r oxpending not less than S59oae
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