. 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 . ailroad to develop coal, at $100,000 per mile 6,000, 50 miles of highway, at $30,000 per mile 1,500, 60 miles of highway, at $10,000 per mile 600, 250,000 cubic yards concrete masonry, at $7 per cubic yard 1,750, Total $52,500, The cost and damage to the people of the Nation resu
. 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 . ailroad to develop coal, at $100,000 per mile 6,000, 50 miles of highway, at $30,000 per mile 1,500, 60 miles of highway, at $10,000 per mile 600, 250,000 cubic yards concrete masonry, at $7 per cubic yard 1,750, Total $52,500, The cost and damage to the people of the Nation resulting from of this dam could not be less than $55,000, 79 Monongahela River Valley. Ten Mile Creek, Millsboro, Pennsylvania. Height of dam, 180 feet; length at crest, 1,600 feet; length at base,200 feet; probable contents of dam, 580,000 cubic yards of area, 6,400 acres. Area required, 9,600 acres. The total areais underlaid by the seam of coal worked at Connellsville, Pa., asshown by geological map, and on that account, alone, the present valueof the land is not less than $1,500 per acre, for mineral. Sales haverecently been made in adjacent territory at about that figure. A largeamount of valuable bottom land would also be destroyed, probably. PROPOSED DAM SITE—TEN MILE CREEK—MILLSBORO, PA. Dam to be 180 feet high, mile long. Water will submerge 6,400 acres. This reservoir would submerge a, branch of the Pennsylvania Rairoad,a coke plant of 100 ovens, coal mines and coal lands, villages, farms, high-ways, etc. Arrows indicate location of dani. 4,000 acres, worth $ per acre. The 5,600 acres of hillside and tim-hered land is worth $ per acre. The value of coal-mining and gaswell property, at Besco and Zollansville that, would .be destroyed isJirobably about $400,000. About four miles of spur lines of the Penn-sylvania Railroad to reach the same territory, effectively, with a flve-tenths per cent (.5 per cent) grade line,
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