Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-20
MEANING IS
LOWER RATES
EFFECT or WATERWAYS urON
NrlN'S KAllN\NS
SAYING IS CONSEQUENTIAL
Estimate |. rhAt In one Year "
would Equal the Dcbt Uf the
Entire NuUun

II has been stated that waterways
urudur. both direct ana udlrrr. save
hugs iu the Duat uf transportation ana
ALSO rstrt what may br called 20 rira-
tive effect AS au instance ul the de
rect saving 4 was shown lhut the 100
UUO. GOO tons of freight handled uu
the Gr.ut Lakes loo 1900 were carried
lor $3.50. O.UUU.UUU less than 10 would
have cost hy rail % the opinion ul
the United states army engineers is
rorrcrt-aud thu opinion ls based up-
uu results actually achieved uu inc
rivers uf Europe Nr have % number
of rivers ON which, when properly
improved. freight can Dee carried Tor
less than uu thc lakes ana many rivers
nu which 10 can bv uurucd for mu,h
Irss than by rail ll therefore the
yhu advocated hN the National RIVERS
ana lnrhors Congress should Dee ear
ilrd uut which includes the improve
mcnt of an out rINcn' tu Wch extent
ag shall be- found advisable ulltr tN-
pert Information the direct saving ln
cost of transportation would nr vastly
increased n would probably Dee IN
creased tntuld but u it were onlN
doubled the direct saying in % sinsl"
wear would be- more thau enough Co
pay off the nntluuul debt
But this is not the end of the hrne-
hts which the general improvement
of mr waterways would bring il 's
only the beginning Beside the direct
saving there ls AN Indirect saving
which results from the oncct of water
WAYS ON railway freight rates, for
rates are always lower ON railroads
which meet water competition thun
,n those which do not The amount
Of ,hIs saving Is not everywhere IN"
same. owing tu difference In condi-
tlons. but we can get % good general
idea Of II from study of some sample
instances
Freight rates from Sew York {"
salt Lake ur Spokane are much higher
than To- san Francisco or Seattle, alt
though the Il stance is much less, be-
cause goods can be- carried iu the Ia
clhc coast Ny water around cape Horn,
while there ls mo- waterway oi any
kind Ia the inland cities named, N
is not the ocean alone that dllccts
railroad races Compare the rates on
iMgt.class merchandise Co river towns
and inland towns situated about 900
miles from ST. Louis. Towns ON the
upper Mississippi get rate ~ SO cents
q hundred inland towns pay b3 cents ,
towns ON the ohio pay a. cents inland
towns iu the same rcpIon p1N "a,
\ Will more striking instance. ana
one showing the direct result OF W.T.
trrwny Improvement ls Goo Doe found
un the Columbia river Before the
locks at the cascades We're huilt freight
rates on nails, and that class OF
goods from Portland To The Dallcs
Were SG.40 per ton. AS soon as the
locks we're finished and the steamboats,
could get through the railroad rate
dropped to two dollars per ton-less
than one-third what lt was before
That the difference was due tp the
river Improvement IS shown hy the
fact that rates were not reduced be-
yond the point to which the steam
boats could run For instance, the rate
uu salt iu car load lots Wss Sl.50 per
ton t. The uallo-, and 5000 per ton
to Umatua-Xl 90 per ton for the NN
u,lW with Watcr competition and