. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . ecent years steamboat traffic hasfallen off greatly, and the freight business has become lim-ited mainly to the barge traffic of the Ohio and otherrivers so situated as to be able to, handle bulk traffic downstream. The Ohio River far exceeds all others in thevolume of freight, because of the great quantities of coalbarged and floated down the river from Pennsylvania andWest Virginia. Of the 15,227,000 tons of Ohio Rivertraffic, nearly 11,000,000 consists of coal, and near
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . ecent years steamboat traffic hasfallen off greatly, and the freight business has become lim-ited mainly to the barge traffic of the Ohio and otherrivers so situated as to be able to, handle bulk traffic downstream. The Ohio River far exceeds all others in thevolume of freight, because of the great quantities of coalbarged and floated down the river from Pennsylvania andWest Virginia. Of the 15,227,000 tons of Ohio Rivertraffic, nearly 11,000,000 consists of coal, and nearly 2,000,-000 tons of stone and sand; the remaining 3,250,000 tonsbeing made up chiefly of miscellaneous merchandise, grain,lumber, and iron ore. TRAFFIC ON OUR WATERWAYS 331 The great IMississippi River, wliich was so largely usedfor freiglit and passenger traffic before and for some timeafter the Civil AVar, has come to have a relatively small ton-nage. The freight handled on the Mississippi River aboveSt. Louis, in 1906, amounted to 1,758,000 tons, and thaton the stream below St. Louis to 2,546,000 tons. The total. Departure of a Coal Fleet from Pittsburg. for the two portions of the stream being 4,304,000 tons. Aslate as 1889 Mississippi River traffic totaled 12,492,000tons; the volume of business done in 1906 was only thirty-four per cent of that handled in 1889. The Hudson River continues to be used largely forfreight and passenger business. In 1906 there were 8,655,-000 tons of cargo handled upon the Hudson River, aboutone fourth of which consisted of the traffic to and from the 332 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION New York canals. When the New York canals have beenimproved in accordance with the project now being exe-cuted, the Hudson River wdll undoubtedly have a large in-crease in traffic. Indeed, there is every reason to believethat the importance of this transportation highway will be-come steadily greater with the industrial development ofthe State of New York. Although
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