Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-30
WANT WATERWAYS
 ID HELP MOVEMENT
 OF FARM PRODUCTS
Rivers and Harbor Congress Will Discuss Plans in Ma ton Wide Effort to Relieve Railroads

tEpttidl t.--ACCOftiu 10 iSpofta oA | the Department of Agriculture, the value of farm products for the pres. ent year will run between nine and ! ten billion dollars. As the carriage of these foodstuffs to market, and the return of the manufactured products for which they will be exchanged. will tax the ability of the railroads to the limit, causing car shortage, terminal | congestion and vexatious delays, lhe | improvement of the rivers of the con tinental United States becomes at once one of the most serious prob | lens with which the government has 10 deal
 Just what should be done toward Q solution of this fundamental economic problem win be one of the things which the TeLth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and HaIbors Congress, which meets in tnis. city December 8, f and next, will en- Geavor to show. But how best to make the rivers do their share of transportation is not the only ques- tion that will occupy the time of the Congress: there are other and eau ally vital subjects that will be con sidered during it's three days session. Fer diversity of subjects and the cos mopolitan character of those who will address the delegates, the meeting Of the National Rivers and Harbors Cor. gress next month gives promise of far exceeding any previous Convention in the history Of the organization.
 Probably the one utterance that will be aw aited with the liveliest pos sible interest is the one which will show the position that President woodrow Wilson will take regarding a liberal policy of river and harbor development As governor oi New Jsrsey the president early became tn- arrested in the project for ship canal across the state connecting the Delaware river with Raritan Bay or Newark Bay, but his position on the improvement of the internal waters of the country is yet to be deitned. IL may also be expected that Secretary of War Garrison will outline the po- Sltlun Oi illS dutHtiAtotA aSAoA SA government of the Panama Canal Zone and free tolls for coastWlse commerce. in the event the President does net touch apon these questions in his annual message to Congress which will be delivered on the day nrevious to the meeting of the water ways convention.
 ToreiCn governments will be repre- ssnted on the program by His Excel Iencv D. da Cana, Ambassador rom praziI and Hon. John D. Ha1en, Mia istar of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa Canada ,.-
 Hon. Rome c. Brown, former pres ident of the Minnesota Bar Associa- t;on and Chairman of the Conserya- tio,, Committee oT the American Bar Association. will speak on "Legisla- five obstacles to the Improvement ot Nsyipable Rivers Q subject oI vide interest in view of recent decisions oI the Supreme court
 The Inter coastal Waterways Ne" : England to the Florida Keys, the MS sissippi to the Atlantic, and inc Ms eissinpi to the Rio Grande-wil De ,ifs,nssed in all their details by Rep resentative John il. Small, oi Nor'h csroIina. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, Representative Geo. 1,,,,.sase of Texas, and Representative tIa,nnton Moore, of Pennsylvania who will deliver an illustrated lecture
 tbe Atlantic Waterways Project !
 For the first time il the history or tbc Congress a reception VIII De heiu or Wednesday evening, December ., nl honor of the Vice-President and Mrs varshaIl. and the Speaker or the I4o,,se of Representatives and Mrs Clark After the reception "hien rvil1 not extend over an hour Mrs' sarah Willard Strout, of Portiaho' Maine. President of the woman N'- tiopal Rivers and Hsrbors Congress, ,,.,u take cl arge of the meeting ana sa,t,er an address on "Deyeloped waterways and Their Relation 10 tile Home Maker" Miss Mira L. DOCK, os FdvettevilIe. Pa. Viee-ChairmaD or t,,a Conservaticn Department, Gen
 
 ersl Federation of women's Clubs y,fI, speak on sThe interest of Ciun women ir Waterway Development, ,hs Iaaies' Nigbt closing with an r. ,,s.rated lecture. some WOnorooS waterways.r by Mrs. Asaes Greene Yoster of Chicago. one of tue best ,,cogu literary women of th" mtdole west x-n
 Governor Martin H. Giyan, Of New york @ ho has shown a most eataa elastic interest not olly in the barge canal now building in his state put II, nor; conditions at New Nork anu puaalo. will speak on Waterway iDs' velopmeEt in the Empire state. ~hiis R. X. C. Smith. Commissioner oI DOCKS ana Ferries. New York City. will speak 'op .The Port of New York and an 's..hsr sNex Yorker, Danfortia 2. Aius-
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