Show I TE Hf f Of ENORMOUS TRAFFIC TAC ON THE TEE GREAT LAKES LS Ty They Have Become a Gret Great Artery of Our Ou Richest Commercial Blood Suez Canal Caa Traffic Tc Discounted The enormous traffic of or the Great Lakes is won well wel brought brough out out in Anes Magazine M ine by b Arthur Stringer who writes The Great Lakes have hae become Les a great gret artery arto of or our richest commercial blood blo of or the population of ot the United Unite States State is dependent denet on these thesa lakes for their tei export eor and impost import trade tre This Ts waterway taps ts the th rich richest est eat et and ad most mot prosperous agricultural territory on this continent of or ours OU to together to gether get er wIh our most ne and Md it i is worth while noting that ta with within wih withIn in a radius of miles of or 40 mie Cleveland lies le the th population of ot the United States Staten State It I is a well wel established fact that th deep water wate transportation is and ad necessarily must mut be b far below the cost Ct of transportation by rail ri Indeed inde it Is computed that the te cost cs of oC water wate trans transportation by br steam st when the th voyage oya Is of any considerable length lengh te I about abut the tho average cost of or trans transportation tr transportation by rail rl while by sailboat it is I only o ot of the latter later As A this t question of transportation de tie determines de to a great extent t the te exist existence exI tenes t a set e ence or the te nonexistence of o a possible industry and ad eha or diminishes the te value alue of ot every article acle of f export m in proportion to its it efficiency and a economy my the battle baltic batte cry c of ot the th west wt for tor twenty feet fet of ot water between Duluth Duluth and ad the sea se is no great get problem prem t tO account acut for In the year yer 1898 there tf passed pae through the tha Soult Ste Marie ai canals ca no less than ta 26 tons ton of or Canadian Caia freight alone having bavins han a value of or white while American ships moved some s me tons ton through the tha same sae waters for the same me length lengh of or time timeTha The Tha The Soo S and ana a the tha te Sues Sue The total tot traffic tc through the tb Jocks k of o this Soo So canal cna for leas Ima l than ta eight months mont is five times as a z great get In num nuns number bet ber br of o vessels essel and ad slightly less lesa that tr twice as much in actual tonnage tonne a as passes through the te Suez Sue canal c during durl an a entire etre year ye Through this thi sam sante s Sues canal which boasts of or Sue c wh b carrying c in inthe the commerce 0 of or the te world there the Hoar flur fU ed eel C through the tho locks of o Susan Sus Mari Mar Mara Maria a tonnage tonna of or The Th stupendous proportions pr of the t traffic on o our Great Creat Grat Lakes Le may t also be realised from f the te tefa fact fa that tha more ships s salt sail the te Detroit river than enter either ete the th port pr of fr t London or Liverpool Livel A greater great aura num nu ber bet of f passengers carried ce annually bv b the th lake la fleet falls fails very ver slightly it short of The city cy of or Buffalo which claims claim the largest grain elevator eeor in thu th world world does do a business bl in the trans transshipment transshipment shipment of ot grain ansi and a flour fou w which ex ox exceeds C coeds that done by any other oter city in m existence Cleveland with tim tha te tion ton of ot the Clyde is the te most m extensive shipbuilding centre cete of ot the present Pet day daj d The nether shores shor of the th lower lakes la have hae been ben with wit a collection of the busiest and most te buie mo prosperous pro ru manufacturing centres in i the United tailed Une States Stat and so s much muc so thai t today toay our ou commercial centre of o gravity 0 will wl be b found to t fall rI somewhere along the northern portion pron of Ohio Ohi Mill Ml and foundry and factory fator in i aH alt a these the cities depend on the great gt iron irn freighters that that steam stem north with coal c and bring brine br south southward sut southward ward their ther cargoes of timber tb and ad grain and iron In and it is in the te possibility g of ot such economic exchange that t lurks Iurka lur the te secret greatness set gae of a Uncle Unc Sams Sain Sas mercantile It I Is i in just hs too o that tt lies le the te secret of o how hw the United States has ha taken such sh a a generous hand h in the te feeding tee of the world It I Is I an a ac at accepted fact fat with shippers that Liver Liverpool LIverpool Liverpool pool makes me the te price of cash ch wheat and a that tt every ever cent c saved oa on on the cost cst of ot delivering American delvein grain at Liver Liverpool Live Liverpool pool pl means mens so o much mh mosey money me to be b paid to the owner of this wheat whet at the th time it is sold and shipped So S Duluth in itt in itta ina a commercial commeria sense ia is I placed by the Great Lakes miles pa closer to Europe Ep than th is let Jt us tie 1 say s St St co Louis The Canadian government has b recently realized reze this th fact fat and an although agh they the have heretofore allowed aw American ve sels ses to carry carr 96 36 per nr cent e of the traffic tro of the Great Lakes L they te are ae now p r a deep waterway wy system from froni Port Arthur Arhur to the Gulf GuK Gu sem of o St Law Lau Laurence Lw Lwrence Lawrence rence that tt pi promis to threaten ten e n the business of the t port part por of New Nr Ne Tone and an the comparatively diminutive Erie canal The last lat link Un of o this t enterprise of the Canadian government was a forged fored by the opening of ef the the S canal cat and by b its operation o ron it I is i expected that the th cost ct of transporting lake lae freights to tidewater will wl be b reduced rc to su lh h lt han an extent that these there wilt will be saT tha wi D a 8 s V sr of front from one o to t two Nt Cents a a bushel on nn wheat whet The Canadians have hv expend d dover t dover over to secure their U forE n feet of or water between wae Port Po Arthur Aur and ard Montreal and aM ais in comparison with wh th thi the expended eed by the th United Unto States State seems fem nv Insignificant t especially when one on or remembers th the surpassing Using sUrp ext nt to do d oar r com corn commercial mercial interests are aze ar involved in sue sueh a deep waterway improvements PI greatest interests ia iB i this connection f r course COUl are in the trees and coal ev tr change which takes place between Ohio and Lake Superior ports pests Iron and anti Steel It is an aIL but bet indis India indisputable indisputable potable fact that the Great Lakes Lalus lie i at the root of Americas present supremacy in th the Iran Inset and aBet aie steel mar ket of or the world It has bas been bean I Y the reduction oC of lake Joke freight rates on a these thet e two essentials of life and an eone meree brought about by improved fa facilities f a duties for loading and discharging car cargoes cargoes cargoes goes the increased tonnage of ot lake hake ve Yes the improvement of rivers and harbors that tb t has allowed the American steel worker triumphantly to invade the markets But Butas as the increase In population of or the United States demands d new fields field for labor as the west fills nils up ap and de tie develops develops and the future commercial growth of this t is country coln rY is found to lie li 13 or the tise foreign market it is on oa this great though somewhat neglected artery arteo of commerce eomme between b twe Duluth and Buffalo that the economy of the future will win place his bis finser t to find the true pulse of ot American pro progress gress grass Much has liaS already been done but it must not be forgotten that tive canals are a brake on the wheels of ot commerce and that before the United States dominates undisputed the markets of or Europe it has a river and harbor bUI bili to make law and be fore Uncle Sam in the face of the fiercest competition shall become the tha maker of or bread and iron for tor the world he must look to his lakes |