. The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions, with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization . making a total rate of .68 cents per ton-mile. Therate charged by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad on coal, in carloadlots between the Kanawha coal fields and Cleveland, on Lake Brie,is .185 cents. Therefore the actual cost of commerce on these canalsduring the year 1907, in which far the largest comnierce ever
. The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions, with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization . making a total rate of .68 cents per ton-mile. Therate charged by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad on coal, in carloadlots between the Kanawha coal fields and Cleveland, on Lake Brie,is .185 cents. Therefore the actual cost of commerce on these canalsduring the year 1907, in which far the largest comnierce ever knownwas borne upon them, was nearly four times as great as the cost ofhauling the same class of freight on one of our railroads. If we con-sider the commerce of any other year than 1907, we find the cost perton-mile on the canals far greater—for instance, an average for theyears 1904 to 1906 for the Canadian Canal shows 6,432,770 ton-miles,and a cost of cents per ton-mile—seventeen times as great as therailroad rate above quoted! 151 In a speech delivered before the Congress of the United States onMarch 1, 1909, J. B. Ransdell, the leading advocate of waterwaysimprovements in the United States, President of the National Riversand Harbors Congress, argues as follows:. THE SAULT STE. MARrE CANAL, MICHIGAN. The steamship North-West is passing through the Weitzel Locli. The commerce through the Sault Ste. Marie Canal during theseason of 1907, according to accurate statistics of the United StatesEngineers in charge, was 58,217,214 tons. The reader will please observe that the canal mentioned by thischief waterway boomer is in Canada, therefore the United StatesEngineers have nothing to do with it. Observe, also, that the com-merce of the canal mentioned was actually 15,588,165 tons, insteadof 58,217,214 tons, as stated by this representative waterways States-man. He proceeds as follows: The commerce through the Sault Canal, during the season of 1907, as sho
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