. 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 . the people of thewhole Nation. In addition to this, however, there is the cost of actuallyhandling the tonnage by boat. Capt. William L. Sibert, Corps of Engineers, TJ. S. A., now a mem-ber of the Isthmian Canal t:!ommission, who is a high authority onriver transportation, and has made elaborate investigation
. 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 . the people of thewhole Nation. In addition to this, however, there is the cost of actuallyhandling the tonnage by boat. Capt. William L. Sibert, Corps of Engineers, TJ. S. A., now a mem-ber of the Isthmian Canal t:!ommission, who is a high authority onriver transportation, and has made elaborate investigations, reports 189 that the average cost per ton-mile for coal handled on the MonongahelaRiver by A certain large steel manufacturing and furnace companyin Pittsburg is .18 cents per ton-mile. These manufacturers use over2,000,000 tons of coal per annum and operate 180 barges and foursteamboats. They own all their own plant and operate on a greatscale, with everything thoroughly systematized, and on the most eco-nomical basis that is found possible. Yet the cost of handling coal cents per ton-mile, making a total cost of .3 cents per the main lines of the various railway systems, freight is beingtransported in train-load lots at a rate of less than .20 cents per ton-. LOCK AND DAM NO. 7. MONONGAHELA RIVER. September 16, photograph shows a practically dry dam on above date. mile. (See report of the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors,House Document No. 492, BOth Congress, 1st session.) The Big FourRailroad is hauling coal in train-load lots at .186 cents per ton-mile;only sixty-two per cent of the cost of Monongahela River coal trans-portation. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company is haulingcoal across the rough mountain region, between Tennessee andKentucky coal fields and Atlanta, Georgia, for .265 cents per Norfolk & Western Railway is hauling coal across the mountainsfrom Pittsburg to the sea-board at Philadelphia at .331 cen
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