Show improvement OF aiva 1 a vi U n U al WV WATERWAYS W 11 ir A in R WA W A i i cost of gettin getting 9 grain to market materially reduced through shipment by water country benefits correspondence the ad advocate acate ocate dunt dont washington but D C ept 3 you may not kno know ilou you probably it is s a matter of the united importance to you whether hether the attral Attra a 3 9 of states are improved or not and this is true no matter who you are what hat our bu busmen ines I 1 11 or what pirt wirt of the may be that countr you ou live lie in it you ou are a farmer and tell that you me that it ii to say it can make any dit difference Terence to you ou whether hether the waterway a tera q of the country are improved or not because ou lie from away aay out miles away any river rier which is nai navigable gable now or ever will ill be wen well 1 I 1 admit that it is not as pasy to see as the grain elevator ele ator dow don at t TOW r railway rallay n station but the benent benefit Si a there just the ame same a real 8 ur enough do di larh lart and cents benefit ik V a hai e alrea ly been of tremell doub adan tag to the farmers of the country an am I 1 their further improve dent lut ut more inore money botic ay iy into our pockets ani iose those of bour our neighbors take grain for an illustration large part of the grain raised in the country Is shipped ar from the place where it is gron gronn u conle for use in the eastton state and some for ex pc pert rt to I 1 hirome drope tin anler ler these con 11 tit alina ns the trice i rice of grain Is not five I 1 at the nearest railway ilay ra baitlon titio I 1 our wr aaa at for instance ig Is worth just what it vill bring in Lher looi lese the com of 1 getting it there ion ou cin c in see e at anee that it makes make a whole 1 lot t ot 0 difference to iou ou how much it costs to sand bour grain to diw new ork vork ur I 1 liverpool anil and there s where tho the gatei i o cornea comes in where economy comes in in lis the average coat cost of car earning rIng wheat 1 I eat coin vorn chicago to dufilo bur flo by like w Ps one u cent a bushel alle the cost bi nil rill I 1 1 nan nc I 1 or as cents almost 1 twelve times as much although the dutan la is the asame hut but grain which Is tt tc go all the way bv water vater must be transferred to canal boats at buffam litte little canal boats drawn b L li L i ditl itt cann carry stuff as cheaply as its big ships iriven by steam so the through gli rate ty 1 water ater was aas six cents a bashel a over oer half as much us by rail or the tva ent 3 beara ears en pal I 1 I 1 ic with ISO IM the water rate on the a rage waa was loer 1 than the rail rate b by 62 6 2 cent cents a budhl on the shipments from I 1 ako Su perlo the utter liffer greater grater still since I 1 T blath ii Is lea I 1 ian itin 10 miles farther trona from new lork hw mn Clil cago b 1 bv iter ani an 1 Z riles farher by rail hit h it no comparative rates are published p rac MefI cIal effects of the water way through lowered coat cost of tran tation are no not confined to the grain from cities on the lakis but extend to r radically all the grain gral n pr i lure I 1 the total production of the ve principal cereals wheat corn oits barley and rae during the rift p ailt 40 ears was over OCO bushel t it the ti a edition to the alu 1 of thia this ast volume volu e of grain va wat a five cents a buchel ani an I 1 that berrs it nol erite daure in lew tew of II 11 facts tatoul daase he the total Is n han so nearly all of ame ij ii golie into the pockets of the far ars rs aut while the beneficial effect of hie the 1 4 erway to a surprising dis ills AH a waterway close by exerts a it much direct and powerful poi erful in i nee tiar one a long u A uy off it if tl creat great I 1 altes and the frie canal ha increased the value 0 of grain all 0 r the west net what do aou ou suppose wr vr ild lil tapen it if the Us its rl rt Arlian Ar hannam 6 and anti nal 1 were st it roved that boat boats could run e er or da in the scar unless hindered by ice deoney N ceded for work the national rivers and flar tirs mieres ciR ress is tor for the improve ment of the rivers harbors and water A r v in all parts of the states L ca i mm oman alexan ler lerat cd the r aers an I 1 li committee sava that V 00 will nill complete every project which ha ba teen been begun or hai been becom rn aled a led by the army engineers five fly li 1 1 I itai 1 million dollars would proba as anish up nil all of and ant all the n 11 projects bich will be surveyed an I 1 within the next few years year annual ro ot of v e average 1 cereals which lur ill tl tj ve principal lr alp f list ten ton beirs has been 4 of im bushel bushels has awn steadily steany in n ct i I 1 it V and will ill probably continue to increase for kinle to come tre complete ini nt of all cf G waterways wate tays rays would indrea r the vs ns i ot of every bushel bu abel of grain pro ue fise cents cent s my 0 own n di I 1 by at least orl ort n I 1 Is that it would bf be more than that t let us be on the afe safe lle side suppo billion winon dollar i on we ve spend a w aye instead of a half a that the production of or grain rain re to us its a am it lr id instead of I of xin X in 16 1 tha the price and ippo la in iner ael a el oely only A to a buchol etc d ef of five IT loB ata stationary if a so 0 o alt i production product the do j and the cu cs half tho whole hole be 11 te 1 than ten pr r in the ef of grain acne |