Show Fifi IF ullEs y I 1 ff T IER caw E TO lv I 1 61 SUPPORT FACTS saving of millions of dollars annually Is what comprehensive system of waterways means to the farmer cerrel Cor rep the A emte 1 washington D C sept 10 in a former article we c gave facts and figures to prove that if the comprehensive plan ot of wat waterway eray improvement pro advocated by the national rivers and harbors congress we were re tarried carried out the direct return to the farmers of the country on the single item of grain would certain be a and probably would be more than twice that sum nut but grain Is 1 not he the only item on which the farmers woul I 1 receive a it benefit the fact in that for hf be larm farm ers er ar aej a everybody else elme for tl 0 at mat ter the co cost 11 t of transportation influx encee bract practically 1 1 ever everything thing ht bt buys salla eats wears or u acs aes in any wa way whatever except water air and eun sun shine the average man Is ini lined to laugh when s hen told tolt that he paya pay out mr fer for transportation than be docs does tor for taxes tale or because of the tariff but hia his laugh laughter ter loee does no not t alter the fact in the least there are threw three principal Val lods of transportation the the rallar and the waterway and there ie 19 90 art gnat at a difference in the cost of transportation by these theme different meth ode that it ie Is worth orth while to at stu ly y the matter a little 1 10 the expert experts of the good r roide L 18 bureau estimate the cost of hauling a tor of freight on one P mile by horse an I 1 waon on the tile average road til fit the united states at 25 centa cents the rhe coet cost on a thoroughly rood good smooth pm road might be reduced to 10 cent cents poor a manual gives 7 sa mills per por ton nile n ie as the price rec received elvel by 13 the railway railways in 1907 while the records kept at the tile soo show that the average rate on the freight carried into and out of I 1 ake superior in the same year woe only 8 of one mil mill facts in a nutshell you ca can n better understand what these figures mean it they aro are stat stated e d la in another way they mean that it lf you have 9 a dollar to spen open I 1 in shipping a ton c of I 1 freight ou on can send it 4 miles 0 on n an average road 10 miles on ik i a first class road miles on a rill road and anti I 1 miles on a lake take v vessel el it Is very easy to see that rood good roads are a lot belter better than poor roada roads but that transportation in by horse and wagon Is too costy costly at abo best beat to be used except tor for small loads load and abort distances distance 11 so far as interstate traffic I 1 ie a C concerned con cernel I 1 the wagon road must be left oen entirely out of consideration I 1 it t Is to just a easy to see ee what a great benefit would result from the building of A railway into a region where there 11 was none before and that a still greater benefit would result from so go improving a river that it Is made I 1 dependably navigable aheu it w wax not oo 00 before waterways Vater Vator ways increase prosperity in chrite principal wayn woy viz direct sav may 4 ing saving and by what may f be called a creative effect the dir 1 rt t saving Is to that which occurs on goods k J act Lc cally tully carried by water and some facts which in licate haw how great this dl ill saving Is will also make more alain lain the vast difference between the rost cost of transportation by rail and by water through the soo canal at the tho but let of I 1 ake superior Sl Sn perlor there were a car ried tied in 1907 58 8 tons of freight thia this was carrll an average distance of 28 3 mile miles at an average cost of 8 of one mill per ton mile if this ha bal I 1 been hipped by rail at it the average railway rate for that year 7 82 mills Tuf flit its transportation bauld have cost at 4 more than waa was paid for its ear aage by water the total freight carried on all a lake takes that year vear was in round num A b bern tons this vast ton nage was carried tor for less than it would have cost to end send it by rail and the improvement improvements which produce a saving paying large enough to pay off ri lo 10 the national debt fi fn n less than two twe k 1 4 years coit cost only proof of good results ou call that a pretty fall dividend on the investment and don s you think it would pay to 0 o improve ai a our witt arwa a Is fast and aa an far a we wo can cana cut but SAV avs some one what reasor Is there to su PIce that improved ri rf ers would give anything like as gool reunite IN have been on th h lakes takes tha that is s a proper qI question tion an Is 1 entitled to an answer the only waters wa era in this count which bach has t bea ten b ea en im roved as a who ho Is to com of the he four lake aho I 1 ill niagara aralle but tere are mar cism I 1 i proved rivers in europe fro a r fill study of the he obeal wl these rivers the th army 1 1 l t mate that when khen the the ohio river u Is finished freight c be carried thereon for one half ma 1 I ir er ton mile that means that t dollar which will viii carry a ton lt 11 l 1 T 1 k miles by raft and 1 miles by nice t V will carry it 2000 relies iles by rivo alvr r cost colt 0 of transportation transport atlon will varv or oi different fliers with depth width of current etc but the es e f knitted cost on a completely improve ohio river can cen be increased by 0 per I 1 rent cul before it wilt equal the average rost ost on 00 the UM akes in 1907 and there Is in till still R margin of nearly pr cent before yuu it reach each a r te to ahlf 1 as all high as that by y rall it will pay te fe improve our rivers |