. 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 . Rouge and New Orleans. The absence of modern transportation facilities greatly hampersthe development of the region, but before the persecution of therailroads began, lines were being gradually extended parallel with thestream, with spurs reaching the villages and plantations. Doubtlessthis work will be resum
. 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 . Rouge and New Orleans. The absence of modern transportation facilities greatly hampersthe development of the region, but before the persecution of therailroads began, lines were being gradually extended parallel with thestream, with spurs reaching the villages and plantations. Doubtlessthis work will be resumed when the demagogues have been disposedof, and the commissions emasculated or their members assigned to 267 other jobs, in which they may feed at the public crib without retardingthe progress of civilization or preventing the development of the latentwealth of the national domain. There are no manufacturing towns and no mines between Memphisand New Orleans (736 miles) and the total population for the rivertowns was only 50,431, by the census of 1900. This accounts for thefact, above mentioned, that this portion of the river has not yet beenclosely paralleled by railroads, and the people in the villages and onthe plantations, particularly in the big bends, are compelled to depend. MlSSrSSlPPI RIVER IN A TIME OF EXTREME HIGH WATER. Negroes seeking refuge upon the levee.(From The World To-day—tissue of March, 1907.) on the primitive water transportation, with its intolerable delays andinconveniences. The packet-boat business must gradually decline as railroads arebuilt closer to the river and branch lines are extended into thebends. The coal trade cannot grow much, because as the Board of En-gineers for Rivers and Harbors reported, in October, 1907: It isbelieved that as much coal is now shipped by water as there is a de-mand for on the lower rivers. It must cease altogether when the 268 little coal territory, principally in Pennsylvania and West Virginia,now tributary to the
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