. 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 . en inches of water, and there has been muchbitter complaint on the part of lumber men in the mountains of Ken-tucky and elsewhere, because the government has built locks anddams in some of the rivers, and such improvements obstruct thechannel and make it more difficult and costly for them to get theirrafts an
. 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 . en inches of water, and there has been muchbitter complaint on the part of lumber men in the mountains of Ken-tucky and elsewhere, because the government has built locks anddams in some of the rivers, and such improvements obstruct thechannel and make it more difficult and costly for them to get theirrafts and logs to market. In spite of all this evidence that the canal at Muscle Shoals is amonstrous absurdity, the government is even now building another 104 canal, eignt miles long, to pass boats around the Colbert Shoals afew miles below the Muscle Shoals. Previous to June 30, 1908, therehad been expended on the Colbert Shoals Canal $1,711,, and Itwas then estimated that It would cost $759, to complete it!! Probably no other Nation in the civilized world has ever beenguilty of such egregious folly. The Pyramids of Egypt are, at least,magnificent monuments and doubtless served the purpose of gratifyingthe vanity of the builders; but an abandoned canal, built solely for the. LOCK NO. 6. MUSCLE SHOALS CANAL, TENNESSEE RIVER. There was no water in the canal when picture was talten, September 4,1908. Boats are towed through this canal by a locomotive running on rail-road tracks on right. purpose of distributing the disgraceful pork-barrel political fund, isa disease-breeding eye-sore; a monument to the folly of a Nation andthe dishonesty of her politicians. Yet ex-President Roosevelt, and his innumerable admirers and imi-tators, advocate the issuance, by the National Government, of hundredsof millions of dollars of bonds, in order to secure funds with which tobuild similar or even more preposterous inland waterways; and , as President of the Nation, said: It is
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