. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . lf being unloaded at Ash-tabula, Cleveland, and Conneaut. Nearly nine tenths ofthe ore is shipped from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Inthe case of wheat, the concentration of traffic is almostequally marked. The grain vessels are loaded, for the mostpart, at Duluth, Superior, Chicago, and Milwaukee, andnearly all of it is unloaded at Buffalo elevators; Erie andOgdensburg also receive some consignments. The westboundanthracite coal is mostly loaded at Buffalo, and wliile it i
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . lf being unloaded at Ash-tabula, Cleveland, and Conneaut. Nearly nine tenths ofthe ore is shipped from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Inthe case of wheat, the concentration of traffic is almostequally marked. The grain vessels are loaded, for the mostpart, at Duluth, Superior, Chicago, and Milwaukee, andnearly all of it is unloaded at Buffalo elevators; Erie andOgdensburg also receive some consignments. The westboundanthracite coal is mostly loaded at Buffalo, and wliile it isunloaded at numerous places about Lakes Superior andMichigan, most of the traffic is handled through or toSuperior, Milwaukee, and Chicago. TRAFFIC ON OUR WATERWAYS 335 5. Another inurkod cluiracteristic of the traffic on theGroat Lakes, and one which will be discussed in the follow-injj: chapter, is tliat it is handled by a relatively small num-ber of carriers. There is a high degree of consolidation inthe transportation business on the Great Lakes, most of thecarrying being done by vessels owned by railroad compa-. A Whaleback Passing Through the Lock at the Soo. nies and by the United States Steel Corporation. Thereare, how^ever, numerous individual carriers which supple-ment the service of the larger organizations. Conditions Precedent to Growth of Canal and River Traffic.—Prom the facts presented in this chapter, it is evidentthat the traffic on canals and rivers in the United States,is decreasing, and that the present decline will probably continue at least for some years to come. There are excep-23 336 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION tions to the general rule. Some rivers are maintainingtheir traffic, and will probably show increases in the nearfuture. Speaking generally, as regards our rivers andcanals as a whole, their traffic can hardly be expected tobecome larger until many belated improvements have beenmade. For nearly fifty years our rivers and canals havebeen neglec
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