The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-15

lake vessel. The tug and barge comprise
an up-to-date, inexpensive method OF
| moving freight particularly heavy, bulky
freight.
Waterways, therefore. increase prosper
ity in three ways: list, Directly by saving
freight on goods actually carried by
water End. Indirectly, by Attending com
petition and causing a reduction on
creative effect. that is, by building up
| traffic, increasing trade, developing the
country. adding to the population and
the industries and promoting prosperity
1t is estimated that the average white
family. rural and urban. IS able to spend
and does spend about $500 annually fer
| food. clothing. household utilities and
| other necessaries CT life and OF that sum
about 500 goes for transportation of these
There seems an unreasonable burden on
producer and consumer alike II causes
the producer to get too little and the
| consumer to pay too much for their COM
modities.
| These figures indicate clearly that
| Transports ton has got out OF harmony
! with production and consumption.
! The best way to bring about laveling
or reimbursement and some regulation is
ways and bringing them into use for the
| free service of the people. 1t is esti-
/ mated the farmer pays 25 cents per ton
mile in the use or earthen roads.
| On inland waterways it is claimed the
| cost of transportation per ton mile is.
| canals, from five to ten feet deep, two to
| liISS Hills, lANSiS iAOiii Si-N W 'Nii iNNN
| one mill.
The new methods of motive power upon
the water. gasoline engines. electric ap
pliances and the like. Increase the avail
| ability of the waterways.
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.
Mr. Austin, chief Of Bureau of Statis-
| ties in his address before the Atlantic
Deeper Waterway Association, at Provi-
of states fronting the Atlantic and
Gulf is 1900, coo 90 exceeding the total
value of merchandise forming the inter-
| Total navigable length of streams flow
ing into the Atlantic and Gulf, $4,000
nies-equa!lng distance around the world
Tons Of freight moved within area in
| question.
On ocean front ................ $4,000 o00
On rivers 100. coo, coo
On railways NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 500. 900 600
| sums paid for transportation within
| area in question:
On rivers (estima ted ........ So, 00o 900
On railways ............... 100000 900
Total Observation-Disclosures. $3.50, COO, 0C0
Theodore kolischer, United States dele
gate to International Refrigeration Con-
| gress. Vienna, said, at Providence. that
transportation by railroads of fruit and
| vegetables is too expensive to the rail-
| road, shipper and consumer and that the
| waterways were the natural and economi-
cal means of transportation. 1t is not
necessary. said Mr.. kolischer. ITO say
that shipment by water is but a fraction
Of the cost of transportation by rail. He
| went to show the waste of refrigera-
tor cars in passing over regions Of vary
ing temperatures and pointed out the
difficulties of such Transportation; ana
the fact that the quality of the foodstuffs
was hurt in the long trips between ic-
ing stations
He said that $4,000 loads of citrus
fruits had been shipped from California
in one year and that it represented a
value of sixty or seventy million dollars.
by jolting and jouncing. For the proper
solution of this problem continued Mr..
| kolischer, 1.-The need of inland water
| ways is the greatest in those districts
where railroad facilities are inadequate"
He took Florida as an example of a
! country which was wasting its produce
because Of inadequate transportation ia