The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-10
IMPETUS To
( WATERWAYS
PROJECTS
Important Conventions Scheduled
10 Be Held Prior TO Meet
Ing Of Congress
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Special 10 Daily Leader.
Washington d. C. Oct l0--The
army engineers charged with the eX-
( peniiture OF money for waterways
( projects. are rapidly sending in their
estimates for appropriations needed
! TO carry on The work new under way
throughout the United States look
1 ing TO the increased use OF the water
courses. insofar as their navigability
1 IS concerned. These estimates will
be gone over by a board Of army Off
Z GERS of which Gen. ". H. Bixby is
the he'd and in due season forward
ed to congress by the secretary OF
war. These estimates will be neces-
sariy pruned in order tAat the river
and haybor appropriation bill, which
VIII undoubtedly he enacted at tle
coming session o4 congress may be
kept within the thirty million mark,
as word has gone forth TO the chair
men OF committees having appropria-
tion bills in charge 10 cut appropriA-
tons 10 the bone.
In anticipation of river and har
Dor bill at the coming session OF
congress, a number of very import
ant waterway conventions, interest
ed in distinctive projects viii be held
during the month Of October. COM
menelng with the Lakes -to-the-Gulf
Deep Waterway association which
viii meet in Chicago, October 12-l4.
The Atlantic Deeper Waterways as
sociation. which contemplates the
building OF an inland passage from
Maine to Florida. meets in the city
OF Richmond, Va. on the lS1h. 19th
and 20th Of October and which, nc
cording 10 its president, Hon j.
Hampton Moore. member of congress
from Pennsylvania, will bring togeth-
er a larger number OF delegates
than nave attended any OF the form
er sessions OF this organization,
Following closely on the heels Of
the Richmond convention comes the
Upper Mississippi River Impro e.
lment association which holds its 18TH
convention at Alton, HIS, October
25th and 26th.
Waterways A Necessity
Hon Thomas Wilkinson, presi-
dent of the Upper Mississippi asso-
lciation recently said that the econ
lomic value OF adequate and depend
lab.e waterways was unquesti0ned
1.-THE great commercial cities OF the
world in all ages have been located
lnnop or aaa free access TO the water
routes of commerce" said Mr. VII
lknson. The cities Of this country,
lase the census viii show. that arc
situated upon improved waterways
nave far ousgrown those cities not
on waterways or those eitles on hl-
Improved Waterways
Every important railroad has its
terminals, for obvious reasons, on
lnavigable waterways or deep har-
bors The large and commercially
important cities naye grown and
lprospered because Of cheap trans
iportaiipn secured by water compett
ltion Water transportation is much
cheaper than rail transportation and
rail sportation is less where il
comes in competition with water
TRANSFORMATION Yet not withstand
ing the difference in his favor the
shipper mas not seemed TO consider
water transportation on the river
seriously because of lack Of thought
and proper attention Nevertheless
through the educational Influence OF
waterway associations and especially
the National Rivers and Harbors
congress, ably presided ofer by thai
eminent student OF w erways, Hon
Joseph Z. Ransdell of Louisiana, an
awakening Is at hand all over the
country activity in waterway pro
jects is remarked and waterway
era is upon Gs such as wls begun
by Germany generation ago
November viii also be marked by
"a number of waterway conventions
chief of which IN Importance prob-
ably win be the Mississppi-to-Atian- (
tie Inland Waterway association +
which meets al Montgomery, AlavE
on the 20b. 21st and end 2f next ,
month and very dttingly VIII pave +
The way for the biggest waterway {
convention Of them an, the National (
Rivers and Harbors congress, WhicA (
meets in Washington, December o. 4