The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . ctions incanal charges, the traffic has gone more and moreto the railroads till for the year ending November30, 1905, the total amount of freight transported Water pipe and sprinkling Year Ice leases ] privileges and miscellaneous Both 1898 $ $1, $2, 1899 1, 3, 4, I9OO 1, 2,437-50 I9OI 1, I93oO 1, 1902 1, 553-oo I, I903 1, 1, 2,794-15 I904 4,372-90 4, I905 2, 3, 1906 2,327-3* 2, I907 i,977-95 2,
The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . ctions incanal charges, the traffic has gone more and moreto the railroads till for the year ending November30, 1905, the total amount of freight transported Water pipe and sprinkling Year Ice leases ] privileges and miscellaneous Both 1898 $ $1, $2, 1899 1, 3, 4, I9OO 1, 2,437-50 I9OI 1, I93oO 1, 1902 1, 553-oo I, I903 1, 1, 2,794-15 I904 4,372-90 4, I905 2, 3, 1906 2,327-3* 2, I907 i,977-95 2, I908 3, 3, 1909 3,879-58 4,405-58 I9IO i,455-oo 6, 7, I9II 4, 5, 1912 1, 5,35i-i9 6, 1913 5, 6, 1914 355-5° 7, 7, 1915 1, 5, 7, :The list of tolls adopted in 1848 may be found inappendix III. TOLLS AND EXPENDITURES ON THEILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL, 1848-1915 TOLLS GROSS EXPENSESORDINARY REPAIRSEXTRAORDINARY REPAIRS ii ?+H- a r i \ i. 1910 1915 MANAGEMENT 87 on the canal was only 38,820 tons against 1,011,287tons in 1882. In 1915 the tonnage had increasedto 358,550 tons but the tolls had decreased, due tothe character of the freight handled and to the factthat no tolls can be charged for the traffic on theDrainage Canal portion of the route. For 1905the tolls, including those collected at the locks atHenry and Copperas Creek on the Illinois River,amounted to only $4,950 and the gross expendi-tures were $50, In 1915 the tolls were$1,336, and the expenditures were $35,756. Forthe decline in tonnage and tolls, the managementis only partially responsible. The railroads havetaken the business from the canal partly becauseof the advantages offered by the great railwaysystems with their methods of prorating of freightsand interchange of cars and partly because of thefact that the railroads are managed by capablemen, thoroughly familiar with the transportat
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