The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-31
ALL ARE CONCERNED
IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONS WA.
TeRWAYs OF INTEREST TO
EVERY CITIZEN.
VITAL FACTS ARE PRESENTED
Cost Of Getting Grain TO Market Mate
rally Reduced Through Shipment
by Wster-eenefits Distributed All
Over the Country.

to you whether the waterways OF the
United States are improved or not
and this Is true no matter who you
ara. what your business Is. or what
part of the country you live In. IL
may be that you are farmer and you
tell mo that II Is nonsense to say
that 1t can make any difference 10
you whether the waterways OF the
! country are improved Or not. because
you live away out west miles away
fr".l any river which Is navigable now
O. ever Will be,
Well. admit that it Ia not as easy
to soc as the grain elevator down at
Four railway station but the benefit
is there just the same-a real, sure
/ enough. dollars-and- cents benefit Wa
terways have already been OF treInen-
! dous advantage 10 the farmers OF the
country and their further improve
ment will put more money into your
pockets and those OF your neighbors.
Take grain for an Illustration. A
| large part OF the grain raised in the
country is shipped away from the
place where 1t is grown, some for use
IN eastern states and some for OK
pert Europe. Under those condl-
| tions the price OF grain is not fixed
ot tho nearest railway station. Your
wheat. for instance. is worth just what
: 1t Will bring in Liverpool-less the
! COST OF getting IL there. You can see
at ouce that 1t makes a whole lot OF
difference 10 you how much II costs
to send your grain to New York or
Liyerpool-and there's where the
waterway comes in.
Where Economy Comes In.
In 1903 tho average cost of carrying
wheat from Chicago to Buffalo by lake
YVES one cent a bushel, while the cost
by rail- u New York was III cents
almost twelve times as much. although
the distance is the same. But grain
which is tc so all the way by water
must be transferred to canal boats at
Buffalo. Little canal boats drawn by
iLules cannot carry stuff as cheaply
as big ships driven by steam, SO the
, through rate by water WAS six cents
IL bushol. little over half as much
+ Us by rail. For the twonty years end
iGg with 1908 the water rate, on the
acreage. was lower than the rail rate
by So cents q bushel On the ship
ments from Lake Superior the differ
cncc was greater still. since Duluth is
( less ,han 100 miles farther from New
York than Chicago is by water and
nearly 800 miles farther By rail. but
no com oaratiye rates are published.
Tho beneficial effects OF the water-
way. through lowered cost OF transpor.
shipped from cities on the lakes, but
extend 10 practically all the grain
produced The total production of
the FIVE principal cereals-wheat.
corn, oats. barley and rye-during the
past 40 years, was over 10000. 600, 900
bushels II the average addition to
the value OF this vast volume of grain
was Ave cents a bushel. and that
secms moderate figure in view OF
the facts stated above, the total Is
more than $4,000 900 OO0-nearly all OF
which has gone into the pockets OF the
farmers.
But while the beneficial effect OF the
waterways extends to surprising dis
tance, n waterway close by exertS
very much more direct and powerful
influence than one long way of II
the Great Lakes and the Erie canal
have Increased the value of grain all
over the west, what 40 YOU suppose
Ia
souri, Arkansas and Red rivers were
so improved that boats could run ev-
cry day IN the year unless hindered
by ice?
Money Needed for Work.
The National Rivers and Harbors
congress is working for the improve
ment OF the rivers. harbors and water.
ways in all parts of the United States.
Chairman Alexander OF the rlyors and
barborS committee. says that S339 600
900 Will complete every project which
has been begun or has beon recon-
mcnded by the army engineers. Five
hundred million dollars would prob
ably finish up all of these and all the
new projects which will be surveyed
and adopted within the next few years
The average annual production OF
the lye principal cereals. which dur
ing the last ten years has been 4,15l.-
100000 bushels, has been steadily in
creasing and will probably continue
to increase for some time to come
The complete Improvement OF all
our waterways would increase the
value OF every bushel OF grain pro-
duced by at least Ave cents-my own
opinion is that 1t would be more than
that
But lot us be Oh the safe side. Sup
pose we spend a billion dollars on
waterways instead OF a half-billlon;
sup 2sc that the production OF grain
remains as It is instead of increasing.
and suppose that the price Of grain is
increased only 2ls cents q bushel In
stead of five
Even so. with production stationary.
the expense doubled and the benefit
cut in half. the whole $1,000. .000.O 600
would be returned in less than ten
years In the Increased price OF grain
alone
oeNVER's THIRTEEN DAYS
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