Show 1 I Coal for tor the Isthmus The fhe near completion of the Panama canal is having its effects effects efi ef- ef i fec on some branches of commerce already a The New Orleans f l i gives s one example The Ne New v Orleans Alabama i Transportation company is about to begin the movement of coalS coal S w in l large rge quantities from a point near Tuscaloosa Ala to New Orleans by an all water route which utilizes the Alabama rivers i and sound reaching New Orleans via Lake Borgne Borgue and the Lake Borgne canal It js is planned to deliver at least 20 i i tons of coal per month in New Orleans by this route ute on self propelled steel barges and the explanation is made that the great body of the coal thus delivered will be sent to Panama jis as no other coal can call be so cheaply delivered The statement is fu further ther made that the amount o of coal that will be n needed eded on the I isthmus can hardly be estimated as that point will necessarily I be a coaling station for almost every steamer er that will pass through the canal In some cases it will be a a. a double coaling station as for instance if a ship goes through the canal bound boundS S for San Francisco the effort will be benot not only to take on coal enough for the up voyage to San Francisco but enough for the k return voyage to the isthmus It is a common commo l thing now for our Manila transports to take on coal enough at Nagasaki Japan to bring the ship to San Francisco and to also steam back to Ma- Ma nila nia IVe i We Ve have no steamship coal on oi the west coast except in 5 Alaska and our government government- ment thus far has decided that it is not well t to use that coal lest it encourage a monopoly As though all nn the coal in the east cast was not monopoly coal I |