Show Ni Nir LP 0 s 1 C Cs r cd T JO THE TUE FIE COMMISSION COI SOON START T ON OM ITS Toul TION INTO TilE TIIE CT INLAND aNt C 11 eALS za Y a 1 l j I r t 1 t ter w TJ G N I ee l l Jt t i MI t a IL 1 J WA NE S t s ka i ty The m members of the Inland waterways commission ap appointed appointed appointed pointed by President Roose Roosevelt velt volt early In the present year are ore it as follows Theodore E Burton congress congressman man from the Twenty Ohio district chairman Francis G Newlands United States senator from Nevada William Warner United States senator from Missouri John H Bankhead United States Slates senator from Alabama W J McGee formerly of the ethnological bureau General Alexander Mackenzie chief of the engineer corps Dr F H Newell head of the reclamation service Gifford forester Herbert Knox KnoK Smith commis commissioner commissioner of corporations 8 ir tiE n deep waterways waterway convention which h will b be held at al Mem I phi r hll Tenn Oct 4 1 t U la I certain to 10 Attract the attention of oC the he ubin ti t the subject of ot the tM Improve n ni of or Inland transportation ie i has ha planned i i resent on the opening day anc and leapt all of oC the d 1 hate hae signified their Intention il n m in the deliberation Th Thil con ii IiII n I Is III under the auspice of or the then tb n II ul 1 waterway and andi i twenty of ot tati Inter a l in the outcome will asset alt l In the theli thel li jl l watOn slon Ik n subject of ot Inland Intend waterways Im provement on a In large rue wale wele la III I not net a II novelty H It has haa h been discussed for Cor many Inan yearn yeara and many m men n of ability have hav devoted themselves to tl Hi its It In tn Intelligent expansion Interest In the tit movement has haa been steadily on the In Increase crease and It II ha leas h reached a point at which It Il seems probable that some ome something something thing definite will be done The senti sentiment sentiment ment of ot the million millions who Inhabit the th thet x great JI nos t Inland regions on s ot rat the country t to III favorable to Immediate acton action I In 1 the nutter Ur end anil there thre U is every prospect that thaI the scheme of enlarging Inland trans trens transportation facilities will be the very ery next prise of ot a purely purel national character to be carried Into effect That the Idea of oC a wholesale deepening and widening of or American Inland waterway wa AIt waterway Is le popular In III the widespread region watered by the two IWO greatest greatt rivers the Harden garden of or the Uie continent Is evidenced by the following opinion of ofa ofa a delegate to tD the convention We are Just Jut aa u much Interested In Inthe inthe the Improvement of oC tire tint Ohio Missouri lied fled Arkansas White a and ltd Tennessee river riven aa sa te we are re in the digging of oC the tb Chicago ship canal to connect the treat great takes lake lak and the Mis t r our Idea letea IA ea Is la to work lark In the th Interest ot of the general plan to obtain Internal water waterway way WW Improvement on the t Irac practical practical gala One Once a deep channel shall have hae been teen obtained between the lakes lake and anti the Mississippi liver river an Impetus TV will III be given to the general plan plon that will prove very ary to sidetrack In Incase Inca indue due case ca any ny enmity should develop In con congress grass gress gr later laler on The cheapest of freight transportation tion lion li la I that carried on by water Our riverS are re public property The goy gov government I collects neither toll nor nar tax for far the ne use 11 of oC them therm Now we want the government to Improve these rivers rive in L i t Y I 1 w H i 4 r 1 BURTON T rL I n I order that we may mayy ma transport our freight and farm products in logical di dl directions free from the Inconvenience delays and excessive costs costa Imposed by bya a railroad system which cannot keep pate pace J Ae with the tepidly rapidly Increasing re n requirements reo of oC commerce Every Ery state and town In the Mississippi I l sippi ppl valley will derive a benefit direct directly ly II or Indirectly from Crom the opening of the Chicago ship canal anal because that project i act is III merely merel a It stepping tone stone to the further Improvement of the river Channel chan dUll channel dUllI nel I all the way to the gulf pIC and to the tM Improvement of all the navigable tribu tattoo tart of 0 the lb Mississippi Thus Thu every community In the valley is III cooperating ing to a common end Interior cities In Louisiana Arkan Arkansas eec sas Mississippi Tennessee Tenn and states tat farther north will wUl share hare equally equall In the honor and profit for tor with the tb Improve Improvement improvement ment of nt their streams and cud the Lb opening of the th Panama canal will come greater tr trade advantages ad Ria lower freight rates rat and a greater Inflow of wealth oven Even lIlY lIlYthe the points point making no export part shipments will wilt br bf h b l lild boi bore in I IL al 11 of r their hoiu w will ill II hr aped by the th Inner let Ir r 11 a I t facilities it k rn n Joyed by b the I he exporters exporter Better Batter Than Then Battleships The value alu of DC a fleet of or to l buttle battle ships It spent In I N waterway water Improve Improvements moot ments will go farther in to contenting cementing friendship and an closer clever commercial ties tie than most moat people Imagine tot foi It II will bring Chicago and 4 Now New If Orleans Orleana Into I Ithe the closest possible juxtaposition and make other nations more mo dependent up upon upon on Oft our products The great t take lake Ilk steamers steamer mer models model mode In every way Aa the t of oC which is I Worth approximately 0 can cannot cannot cannot not now be used daring rl the late tall fall winter and aad early earl spring because of the theIre lee Ire When hen the Chicago canal l Is l open these th freighters may ms be bat moved Into the Mississippi tie river nur where all Ibe the year liar navigation will then be possible pe and the he hew wheat w of the lh It sad and lIot the Ih nets ot of the north lI will be hIp on as them t to 10 New Nw Ono thence to the markets of oC the t h world tom Some day Pitt burg hu will ship hip her hr coal Iron run and aid products r down an all Improved Oh t In river er to tn tidewater In tn the gulf it Kansas Kan beef will fled And futy nucy 0 steamboat to 10 world market and aneS boat beat lines will pick up cotton tram from points now nov Inaccessible Ina The TIle relative maximum efficiency of d transportation has h in t the th ople loa lea of careful students of the situation been beM be reached and railroad engineers now n assert art that more mn than MM would bo be required to give the rail railroads rl l rod roads th the facilities needed ad to handle han In ID an aD efficient manner the th nations In Increasing crossing creasing commerce The T sum um of nOn 1300 spent on waterway atra improvement Improve Improvement ment In the th valley aUe would permanently relieve rele the congestion In forty of If the tb richest and most oat prosper prosperous ous states males la is I the Union Ion and at a the same panne nae time open n new channels baI of ot trod trade to an a extent not dreamed of now nD Th The total cost coat of the waterway Im Improvements provement according to the tb heal belt in informed In Informed formed authorities will be only oal per pel cent of oC the amount required to make malte the now urgently unU needed railroad Im lID Improvement I provement We are a going to ask uk the Ibs government for the 0 per rent lent with the hope holM of minimizing the demands demand the rail mad ore Die making m sad aad will wiD have ha to tomek mak mek makIn mekIn In either raw case the Ute public pays pay 11 If It we w Improve our waterways and nd the government Issues Issue a lout least of ot for tor that the public through the Washington treasury tUO will pa paper pay e y Iper aper per rent cent interest t annually annun amounting ing to 10 Should Mould we f not relieve the Ih by waterway Improve Improvement meats ment and th the railroads railroad come om t to i the th rescue bv by h spending speeding pencil the Ih people w trill ill III pay Ila Into the pockets of the m annual Interest of say aay i iper Iper per rent rem amounting to or nr ora I a yearly 1 sum cum almost equal to the total I amount needed toe for waterway Improve Improvement meet ment oxides other amounts mount required for foi funds fund sad and maintenance Bm speaking peaking this is the big bi la laU t tsue HU sue U I We Wn are going 01 to Men Mem phi phia to 10 talk laik these th matters matter matt over oer and ami map out mil a plan at ftC action to tl put the tile f flo project into practical shape hap Talk of oC n a 1 ship chip caret cal to from the Ih great t lakes lake to 10 tit t the h Atlantic has hn been going on IN almost uninterruptedly for tor many man yearn It Jt has ha been discussed in congress congre and ami nut out The Ills river rive and har her harbor harbor bor her art act of June Jun I 3 is directed the secretary ecret r of oC war ar to to he bl male made mil accurate examinations Mid act ft estimates estimate of ot the cwt CUlt of lIC construction of a ship canal ranal by the mot most practicable cable route reste rail wholly within the States Stat from the great lake lakes to tn the Hudson rive liver 11 of Dt auf ant sufficient capacity to II transport the ton tonnage tonnage nage of the lakes lake to lo the sea I I It seems awn however that th thu amount mount of oC i imone money mone In the treasury available tar for the I work of ot investigation wee waa w so 10 limited that the HIP duty wa was wall assigned Ien to a sin single single gle 11 bet of the engineer corps II At A Atthe I II I th the tho end of a year r he submitted a s re n report reo port pert embodied In a pamphlet of HO nO pap pages recommending that thai the ld idea ia be abandoned No matter motter what route J adopted for tor fora tora a ship canal unal which shall hall give within American territory a continuous pas pr ay for the great t ships of the lakes to the aea he It declared a canal would uld be a stupendous work one OM of the very r largest I ever undertaken by byman MBA man Involving the tM expenditure of aw us enormous sum um of 01 mosey money roughly ap up d at t tTo 0 MM To justify the undertaking of audi a s stupendous work he be continued coati It should Id l Ii clearly cleall shown abo n ant t that t It ItIs Itis Is II a necessity D MM and will accomplish th tile the object aimed aim at of greatly reducing re the cost coat of oC transportation second ond that the th benefit to be he d II rived rh from it will willbe be he b commensurate l with It h Its coal rost t Mid end the I i rest o t of nf It t nce and nit third that these th or nr greater t are ar not pine practically t aUy attainable In some Ime other way t mid nud at a lees cost coat Th The practical num ques quI ten Uon I is What ran can H It great ship hip be hi r expected tn in u comi It I la III nut not enough to tl answer this qUI nue tinn by the lII Int nt nl hat a ship hl renal will give free trPe f for r ocean On ve vessels el elto to 10 the Ih lake lak nod 0 1 liki luk to the or an or the Ih It 1111 ad and d that thai freight fr will thus be rh h ipei 1 All 11 existing i on t ms of traffic and und end un I the th conditions condition which hl h con cnn n be foreseen Cn under all nil i lu or Me I coin n I Irle irice rice rles must be bIf considered It U muM mint mil l u he be clearly shown howa hn law t I tl r i il tI l I is i l in induce r rUl duce Ul freights freight not nol l I It t I to i a low lov ri p nt it than tho those e nm no n 0 I hut but to tn a n lowit I point then than tin Ihn tunic 11 i i MI uI x be expected Nt tM 4 fr i i i II Ic rt wa by the time the run calf ii I tall ii i i b mi Dieted Id aid ud that th the die relay n m R nn M f fill folly ily proper pr por to the thi Ih t nt n 0 main maiD maintaining raining mad akl 4 0 I nl the I inal anat anatA inalA A tad red Ia The expert dl die d f th the mater r fleetly as all follow It would nt bo he ble monument ml monument ment to 10 tV t v bun buan n c mem of Jt rk If I the i got gov O rn inept rl cO 11 JOrt OOOO ir r on 0 c tp 1 canal and the their i rand fin when hen It II was wai F completed nna it itao wa was ao wiry very IT I hj by h Iha 11 big b ship phi pM for COr which It ha a L u J and that th business buIM on Oft It tv transacted li ii comparatively comparative r i l vassal which could be ouli well 11 accommodated In Ina Ina ina a canal at Jt f mut much hi 1 Uc It and od expense My Ky stun y of nr tl i l rm rn r in th the light of exiting existing XI nn I rd tad 1 1 of improvements Improve Improvement ment mt In ha the th e T r I t 1 i nr which are nine 1 eon con on v nce me Ih It tl ip lp renal t uld not no nn nf h v i 1 i t Imd hoed ot f loven le cn n if IM of Ian tun rand t i l I fl in inn 01 B n pl th h if ft ht it n II wot Iri not I he used to any lin III a t I 01 b by lr large re I 1 and that thai the to 10 be b bI de deI k I I rived from fron It would Quid not n b comment i into rate hoe Ith It it Its II i rest oct t nd Id Id lh th rust con 1 of oC maintenance This report had bad little ef effort f tact fort on ton those who w were r t the I sch hm tn The Th report of an n engineer voluminous sad nd net plausible though it might be did not a their th conviction inns that the deep water waterway way from the th great groat rII lakes lake to In the th IK oan an anwa wa wet a thing b Moth th feasible and to b br be desired Not rol did the public s a i b by the th argument against ii Ih ct et The Tit ui n of sit h It t gre greet 1111 i ship nl lad hid been before It tot fot so many yen n i end It II had had hod se If o puny ardent and nd Interested l advocates RdO ale tl it It had hd become n 1 thing I hiD not to rn h ir I In a moment The Th of Mp ships loading h at al Chicago hll Duluth and other nth lake port ports and nd proceeding pI lna thence tholf i ia on a their uninterrupted way y to t New Nev NewYork t I York or even fa to II European 11 ports and nf of chipping hipping from fr m foreign and doi i i seaports seaport plying directly end and freely truly to I Ilak 1 I lake lak port ports without breaking braking cargo argo wa i altogether too tOB alluring to 10 be elvo l lat i at the e whim of ot a conceited lacy army ann veer neer I Th favorite fa argument of ot those these w who ho hoare J j jare are i of II the th w wisdom of It pro i deep water iran i fa t j t dUties is III that aming am ho h nine great at hip drip canals i cJ c n i rea re r years year yearby ar arby by nt r I r or Individual Sort egret only oNy one ne haw has in prod d to t h t be a R 1 disappointment This I Is p lr Corinth canah ana begun hun In U 4 and a o Dieted pIte I nine flute y yea Mi T Inter This Thi r i I deep cIp waterway er connects th the tn tw I C Ceta clue elan eta gull gulf Corinth md and Aina Arr It i t id Ide d dI de es the th from Adriatic ports 1111 I Ia a t 16 1 irI miles mile and lId from neap neen ports a n hundred d miles Strange Stran us s sIt It 11 may m appear In that ie re I i i d glon seem em m to th the long longest i way ay 1 j round rou cad do not th the i anal canal which cost cat more mort than o rt to build Mild It I is only oIS tour miles mile mil In j I I but the I hP Levantine Une skipper I Inot II sot not M II n a hurry hairr ant wl tb th has hall re re j cushy lr bees sold H 11 at al auction JAMES JAMBS R ft BJ |