Show baving OF MILLIONS WHAT comprehensive SYSTEM OF WATERWAYS improvement MEANS TO FARMERS FIGURES TO SUPPORT FACTS on shipments shipment of grain alone the direct return would mean and proportionately all other products would be affected in a former article we gave facts and ana figures to prove that if 11 the tha comprehensive plan of wat waterway erwa improvement advocated b the national ri ers and harbors congress congre were car ried out tie he direct return to the farm ers era ot of the coun countin tri on the single item of 0 grain would certai be a ear and probable would tie be moro more than twice that surn sum but gr geln tin 1 li not the only item on which the failers aimers would receive a benefit the flet act la ia that for or the farm arm ers and else for or that mat ter the cost of 0 transportation influx bences practically he buys sells bells eats wears or uses in an adv v way whatever except water nater air and un sun shine the average man Is in inclined c lined to laugh when told that he bivs out more mor a for or transportation than it he 0 does for or taxes tales or because of 0 the tai 1 ff but hla his laughter does not alter the fact act in the least there are three principal methods 0 f transportation the agon way the railway and the waterway witt emay and there Is so go great a difference jo Q the tha cost of transportation by these different meth that it lc ic worth while to study the matter a little the experts of 0 the good roads bureau estimate the cost coat of 0 hauling a ton of freight one mile by horse borbe and wagon on the average road in the united states fit at 25 cents the cost on a thoroughly good smooth road might be reduced to 10 cents poor A 8 manual gives 7 82 mills mille per ton mile as the average price received b the rall railways ways in 1907 while the official records kept at the soo show that the rate on the freight carried into and out of lake superior in the th same ear was 96 as only 8 of one mill facts in a nutshell you can better anderst understand and what these figures mean it if the are stated elated in another vay the mean that it II you have haie a dollar to spend in ID shipping a ton of 0 freight ou on can send it 4 miles on an average road read 10 miles on a AraW oat lags road miles on a rail roid road and 1250 1 milts on a lake vessel it Is very easa aas to see BOB that good roads roada are ara a lot better than poor road but that transportation b horse and wagon Is too costlo at the th best beet to be b used ud except tor for small email loads and asbor distances 83 tar far as interstate gramc la ia concerned the sagon gon road must b left entirely out of 0 consideration it 11 Is if just as aa aas eaas to see eee what a great benefit would result from t the he building of a railway into a region where there was none before and that a still gre greater after benefit would result from sc BC improving a rier that it Is if M mal depond dependably ably navigable when it KU not nel iso before Water waterways Woys increase t prosperity IS 1 viz direct eay iba cf easing arid and bi what mail ma be called a cre credithe e effect the diree sa saving ing la is ibata aich occurs on goods actual cr file bv beater water and eom beruf facts how hov great this ill dl savin 1 C lb aill also make mori more plain vast last difference betiA eLn the cost of 0 transportation b rall and b tater T ater through taesoo th soo canal at the out let there vere car ried rid in 1907 tons tone of freight this was carried an average dit of 0 3 miles at an average coit of 0 8 of one mill ter ton mila it if this had been shipped bi rail it the aver age aga hallwa rate tor for that sear ear 7 7 82 mills its would han have e cost 3 moro more than nag as pat pal I 1 for its carriage bv atar the total freight carried on all lakes that lear ear nas aa in round num bers berk tons this last ast ton nage naga was carried for or jesa je sa than it would mould have cost to send it b hi rail and the improvements which pro duce a sai sailing tag large enough to pa a off 7 the national debt in less than two years mat cost only 85 proof of good results wouldn t aou ou that a pretty fair all dividend on the investments and dont you think it v pa pai to improve all our waterway water wais was as fast and as far a we can rut but ra sas a some one what reason Is there to suppose that improved rin ri ers er would gle anything an thing like as good results as hate haie been obtained on the likes lakes that Is ie a proper question and la Is entitled to an answer anaver the on oab w in this country which has been improved as a v holt Is com compose I 1 of uio the four takes lakes abon aboa niagara falls but there are ganv tin im proved in europe from a cro ful fill study of 0 the results obtained en cri these rivers the army engineers mate that nhen the improvement sf of the ohio river Is fial fre frei lelit glit cv cir be carried thereon for one halt mill tennille ton mile nille that means thit tl dollar bliach alch bill carry a ton 1 miles hy by rail ant an 1 1 1250 miles by lake will carrh it ft 2000 miles U tv ri avri ri cost of transportation will aar vao en cit dif forent rivers v ith depth ni I 1 ith V of 0 current etc ec but the es eq timaton cost on oa a improved ohio riter can caa bl bi incila ed by ro per cent before it vill till tidal the aerie cost on tho the in 1907 and there Is still a marein of 0 nearle ret cant jit before you roach a rite one half tj ij bagh oa 99 by rail it will pay to improve our rivers riner i |