Show griver ver line increases price ce of wheat ZIP T phere HERF Is only one water course in the andre country which can an bo be utilized profitably ably under the rive present unfair division of interchange freight revenue between rall rail t ind and water companies pa riles in tile the opinion of the federal inland ond and coastwise waterways service E but in the governments experiment on ion that one the mississippi river tats bureau claims tile the water tation lins hits been so successful that it has increased the price of wheat in car tall primary irl mary markets but chicago tri is cotone of them water any between loch lockport pott anil and the mississippi has not been constructed further tho the boat line between st louis and new orleans on the mississippi 14 which senator mccormack McCorm lck proposes p 0 as substantially to improve by a bill presented to congress claims to have materially lowered the freight charges on certain imports last year among those tire are tons tona of sugar and 2500 tons of molasses 1 and from cuba tons tolls of coffee front from central and south america tons of sisal from yucatan Yuca tsin and tons of burlap from india A largo large pc percentage of those consignments consign ments we went nt to the chicago industrial district col T G ashburn of the water waterways wilys service saya to t the he secretary of war As fortha for the wheat carried during the year it Is but ta beginning but tile the service lias has carried approximately I 1 bushels a month tho the sayin saving of the barge lines rate Is 3 cents per bushel under the nil all rail mil rate from st louis to tile the gulf the operation of tho service Is therefore for a direct increase of 3 cents per bushel to tile price paid to the farmers farin ers each month at least b bushels |