Deseret Evening News | 1901-11-01 | Page 6 | Erie Canal Traffic

ElitE OANI PIC Improvements I o Not in Iii Gals Gain to Patrons New York Nov Nor N V l the announcement that the th four toUr steam canal canol boats boots and ft p i consorts which have been plying b between New Now York and Cleveland via the Erie canal anti nna Lake Erie Erl are tobo withdrawn cut up and shipped to the Philippines the general manager manage ot Of the Cleveland Steam Canal Ilont noat company Chas Chain 13 JJ Wheeler who Inhere iber said Drain rates rales hero hao gone Sone to such a 11 low basis that there Is no profit whatever in iii eastbound tonnage This nay may bo be boa appreciated a when I say s y that the Iho high highest est rate we I have had tram irom rom Cleveland to New Nets No York has hus be b bp n six cents c per hundred We Intro have not lost money mone but this has hils been due entirely to th west bound tonnage which has ben been n of n Ii profitable kind Notwithstanding the Improvements made malle to the canal by tho the expenditure of ot It 11 has lies not resulted In III one cent to any of ot the lines 8 traversing traV the canal caMI There has Men ben trouble le from low 10 water and the eel grass has hils never been thicker than this year rear ear boats com corn coming comIng ing lag to Cleveland absolutely green from It after buffeting with the waves caves of Lake LItke Erie for tit miles Resides Besides this lila no ito changes were made In the tit aque aqueducts aqueducts ducts so that tho the greatest depth to which boats could be bo loaded has been six feet precisely the same as before the tho so 10 called Improvements were made Concerning the Philippines Trans Transportation Transportation and Construction company It itis l is If paid that at the present time light erale facilities In the Philippines are exceedingly primitive The government nt has been b en hampered by br the absence of facilities Tho The new ne company IB Is I muck mak making ing ln arrangements for tor handling the lie hemp business and has hos hn it Is claimed 1 secured certain exclusive rights for ma machinery chinery to existing practices s In the tho he Philippines The company also proposes propose to go Into other than light business