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Show GR0WT1I0FJ1AILU0AD UNITED STATES LEADS ALL OTHER COUNTRIB3. ClvllUallnn I niton, th l,iuioll and Vail ll.lrn...M Ar Tr.n.rorm.,1 Inlo llr,len,, tUM ., tlM by III Innu.i.r.. n At Wie recent International Commercial Com-mercial CoagreM, held In Philadelphia, tleorge II. Daniels general pattnnger agent of the New York Ctntral nnd lludaon Itlver railroad and president uf the American Association of Gen eral Passenger Agents, delivered a notable addreaa on our railroad nnd their relation lo commercial, lndua-trial lndua-trial nnd agricultural Interest Among other thln,n he aald "Ono of our great writers has aald of Ihl closing period of the nineteenth century, that It la an ug of transportation. transpor-tation. Transportation underlie material ma-terial prosperity In every department of commerce Without transportation commerce would he Impoaalblo Thoae statea and natlott are rloh. powerful I and enlightened whose transportation faellltlea are best and moat intended The dying nation are those with little or no transportation facilities "In till connection It will bo Interesting Inter-esting to note In passing that the second sec-ond American locomotive was built at I the West Point foundry, near Cold Spring, on the Hudson river, and was called tho "Ilel Krlend," and from that day to thla tho locomotive ha been one of the beat frlenda of this-republic. this-republic. Hut It la not alone our locomotives loco-motives that have attracted tho attention at-tention of foreigners who have visited our ahorea, our railway equipment generally gen-erally ha commanded admiration nnd 1 1 now receiving tho hlghcat compliment, compli-ment, namely, Imitation by many of our (liter nations "ITInee Michel llllkoff. Imperial minister of railway of Itusila, ha Inro hi villi to the United State a tow year ago, comtructed a train on much the same line a tho "Limited Train" of thn New York Central and tho Penmylvanla, "At time (litre have been periods of legislation In the United SUtea adverse ad-verse to the groat transportation In-tereit In-tereit of the country, nlmott Invariably Invari-ably the result of a mtiunderatandtng of tha real situation, and tha hasty legislation of auch tlmea ha uiually been repealed upon tha aober aecond thought of the people, for In tha language lan-guage of our great Uncoln: 'You can fool all the people lomo of the time, omo of the people all tho time, but you can't fool all tbo people all the tlmo "One hundred year ago the governor gov-ernor of the great atate of New York ndvlifrt hi frlenda not to Invrat tbelr money or wutte their tlmo In aiding Ilia building of railroad, exprettlng the opinion, that whllo It was possible that Improved method of construction nnd perfected machinery might. In tho remote future, enable the peoplo to move a car upon a railroad at the rate of five or six mile ner hour, he did not believe that they could ever ba made of material ndvantage and that nny attempt to transport pancngora nnd freight by railroad, from one part of the country to another, must result In endless confusion and loss The governor gov-ernor died In the belief that the canal waa tha only mean of conveyance for a great commerce. "Notwithstanding hi prediction, tho raltroada have grown to such vail proportion!, pro-portion!, that today the world' entire stock of money, gold, illver and paper, would not purchaae one-third of It railroad Tb building of the Erie canal, extending from Iluffalo to Albany, Al-bany, a dlatanco of 3C3 mllea, waa commenced July 4, 1817. It waa completed com-pleted In 1836 at a coat of ,7.0:,000 In 1896 the lint of New York appropriated appro-priated JJ.OOO.OOO for enlarging and Improving thli canal, and n few figure from tho atate report on canils may be of Interest In thla connection: Ho-liable Ho-liable alntlitlc of Ita traffic are not obtainable for the earlier )eara of It operation, but In accordance with tho last annual report of the superintendent superintend-ent of public works of the state of New York, wo find that tho tonnage of all the property carried on nil the canals In both direction. In 1817. waa 1,171.-108 1,171.-108 tons, valued at 55.809,:S8. The tonnage and the valuo Increased until 1873, when It amounted to C,CT3,370 ton, valued at 1220,913,321, From 1873, the tonnage and the value of tho property carried decreased, until In 1897 there was ouly 3,617,801 tons carried, car-ried, with a value of IDC.0G3 33S Tilts, In faco of tha fact that the receipt of grain and flour at Iluffalo had In-created In-created from 1,184,685 buthela In 1837 to 2(2,110.305 buahels In 1897. "In 187S the state eait of the Mlt-ourl Mlt-ourl river wero sending food and clothing to tho tarvlng people of Kansas, Kan-sas, Thanks to tho facilities afforded by tbo railroad tho corn crop of Kan-aa Kan-aa this year la three hundred and forty million bushel, it seem but a very few jears since I made my Drat trip to Colorado, nnd (topped on my way at tho home of iluffalo Hill, nt N'orlh riatte. Neb , on the Union Pa-,flc Pa-,flc At Ogalalla. Aft) -ono miles i west of North Platte, the Sioux Indian In-dian were roaming over the pralrlea and making more or lea trouble for I the early ettler who ventured so far i out of the beaten path of clvlllxatlon. The Nebraska corn crop thla year covers cov-ers eight million acre, and the yield 1 two hundred and ulntty million buitul. Previous to the conduction conduc-tion of the Northern Pacific, the dreat Northern, Northweitern, St, Paul, Ilur. llngton, and other railway that traverse trav-erse that wonderful region known as tha 'wheat bait,' thera was nothing to be sasn but pratrl grass and an occasional occa-sional band at untamed savage. UlnaMOta this year will ship ninety million bushel of whett. Botilh Da-1 kol forty-flvs million bushels, North Dakota alxty-flvc million bushel and Montana four million buahels "In U49 there came across the continent con-tinent reports of the discovery of gold In California, but tb only mean of reaching Ita (loWen fjate w by tea around Cape Horn, or the long and perllou Journey with oi teams, aero the plalne, Including what waa then styled In our geographies the Ametl-ran Ametl-ran denert and through the haiardnui mountain iMea of the w enter n part of the con'lnent "The completion of the Pacific rail-roads rail-roads rhaugtd all this ami opened new fUtds fur all ItlnH nf nnlertirliea. in an unaiplorrd lerrltor) strctehlngover more than two thousand mile to tho west, northwest snd Miutliweat uf the Mltilitlupl river, the products of which region were practically valueless until the mean nf transporting them were provided by the railroad "The wheat crop of California this year Is 37,000.000 btuhols The largm crop ever produced In California was In 18. when owing to exceptionally favorablo weather condition that elate produced esnoo.noo buabel. The gold output of California for Ihe )car 1891 I estimated at $16 000,000 Tho vineyard vine-yard and orange grovea of California would be of prnctlrally Utile value were It not for Ibc fact that the rail-roads, rail-roads, by their trains of refrigerator and ventilated fruit cars, make It possible pos-sible to transport Ihe products of her fertile valleys to all section uf the country. It seem hut )-etcnln) that tbo railroad were completed Inlo Portland, Oregon, Taroma and Seattle, Washington, nnd It la mnrvelou that for the year ended Juno 30, 1819, thera wa eiported from the Columbia Illver vnlle) IC.000,000 htuhtl. of wheat nnd from the Puj:et Hiund rnglon. 10,090,-000 10,090,-000 bushels Oregon and Washington I form the northwest corner of the ter-' rltory of tha Unltod State south or tb linn of Ilrltlah Columbia, and are ! directly on the route to our extreme ' northwest imainslon, Alaska, The wheat crop of tho Hate of Oregon and Waahlngton for the year 1899 I 48,-' G00 flflft lltllhlt Thtfa , -.nn!:! during the year tuded June 30, 1899, from the Columbia river direct to for-, elgn port, 1,100,000 barrel uf flour, and from Puget sound points 800,000 barrels Colorado, which, with Its Inexhaustible In-exhaustible mtnea or gbtd, ellver, lead. Iron and coal, forma almost an em-1 plra In Itself, will produce this year of 1899 of gold, 824 000,000; of silver, lt,- I 200,000, of lead, 14,400.000, III addition to a magnificent crop of wheat, fruit, and vegetable. Thanka to her railroad rail-road faellltlea Montana Is today th richest mineral region of Ita alia In th world. The latcat publlabed (tannic (ta-nnic those uf 1897 give tha mineral output of Montana a 501,000,000. Without railroad, Kama. Nebraska, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington would still bo tb home of savage. "Our paeiengcr service la the finest on ealh In the United Stntca last year the flrat-clasa ratca averaged 2 93 cinta per mile, nlthnugh on somo large rallwa) Ihe average waa aevcral mills let than two rents per mile. In I&g-' land the flrt-claa fare la four rent j per mile; tblrd-claa fare for vastly Inferior In-ferior aervlre la two cent per mile, but only on certain parliamentary train. "In Pruula, tho fare I thrro cent por mile; In Austria, 3 OS rent per mile, and in Prance, 3 36 cent per mile. "Our passenger rare excel those of forolmi rountrlc In all that goes to mako up the romfort and convenience of a Journey. Our alccplng and parlor car ayatem 1 vastly auperlor to thslrs; our baggage s)stem Is Infinitely bet-1 tcr than theirs and arranged upon a much mora liberal basis, American railroads carry 1M pounds of baggage free, while the German railroads carry ouly M IKiunds free. The lighting of our tralna It superb, while tho lighting light-ing of trains on most forelgu lines Is wretched " |