Show lONG LONG TRIPS CEASE GEASE i IN RIVER IVER TRAFFIC I I WASHINGTON Jan RIver Rt River traffic attic in the States Is now local and andIon Ion long runs by through fast st steamers a n athing thing thInS of lr tho past according to ft n report today on water transportation b by the department of ot agriculture It deals particularly particularly par par- with freight rates rate time of tran tran- Mt flit and length of ot routes Th The report shows that usually tho the m mix max t- t mum run for or an any steamboat Is a few hundred miles ono one of ot miles or over o be being Ins the tho exception l. l On only twenty five of ot the tho routes I Investigated was the average crage rate of 01 r speed over ten miles mUes an an hour and on ce I thirty seven It was t less Jess than six In connection with frel freight ht rates particular par par- attention was paid to their rela rein relation tion to the farm price of or various products This was found to tot vary t greatly with th character of or the goods For example cample on ona ona L La a tl twenty mlle route in Maine the rt rate rato to for tor a 3 barrel of ot apples was I 15 cents nt I while the Dvera average t farm tarm price was nas 1 1723 The freight rato rate In this L t was wa-s LS thus 87 81 a. a per percent cent 0 ot of the farm price In tho case of ot cotton traffic In the South this p percentage ranged from tram 00 09 to 3 5 Eggs varied still more the percentage per pir- r- r tenta e ranging from 05 06 to 10 Because ot of its great great- bulk hay was frequently charged from 10 to 40 per C cent cant nt o of Its value on the farm With wheat the tho range was from 3 to 15 per cent |