. 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 . is gives a cost of .26 cents per ton-mile. Several coal operators are shipping from the Kanawha, but noneof them on anything like as large a scale as the manufacturing com-pany at Pittsburg, on whose business Major Sibert based his calcu- 192 lations of the cost of transportation on the Monongahela River. The
. 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 . is gives a cost of .26 cents per ton-mile. Several coal operators are shipping from the Kanawha, but noneof them on anything like as large a scale as the manufacturing com-pany at Pittsburg, on whose business Major Sibert based his calcu- 192 lations of the cost of transportation on the Monongahela River. TheKanawha locks afford only six feet of water, whilst the Monongahelagives seven and five-tenths to eight feet. We have no reliable figuresshowing actual cost of coal transportation on the Kanawha, but ifit be possible to handle coal at .18 cents on the eight-foot Mononga-hela, in immense quantities, it will probably be possible to handle itat .28 cents on the six-foot Kanawha, in much smaller this assumption, we have a total average cost of .54 cents perton-mile, which is about three times the cost at which similar freightis actually handled by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad (which parallelsthe course of the Kanawha River, but is much shorter than it) in train-. KELLYS CREEK COAL COMPANYS RIVER TIPPLE. This is typical of sucli structures. The coal is conveyed in small carsinto the house above, weished and dumped into barges below. lots and about twice the cost of transporting coal on the Louisville& Nashville Railroad across the rough mountain country, betweenEastern Kentucky and Atlanta. Kentucky River. On this stream, on which $5,568, had been expended for con-struction, operation and care, previous to June 30, 1908, the reportof the Chief of Engineers makes the following laconic remark. (Seepage 610 of Report of the Chief of Engineers tor 1908): 193 The principal commerce on the river is timber, much of it looselogs, and the improvement is rather detrim
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