. 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 . ^eesnow usually prevent such wide lateral extensions, but the variationsare still such that the river is many-fold wider at some periods thanat others. These conditions make it impracticable to establish per-manent depots or warehouses for storing goods, awaiting river trans-portation or received from the riv
. 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 . ^eesnow usually prevent such wide lateral extensions, but the variationsare still such that the river is many-fold wider at some periods thanat others. These conditions make it impracticable to establish per-manent depots or warehouses for storing goods, awaiting river trans-portation or received from the river, except in a few localities. If awarehouse be built where boats can reach it in high water, probablythey will not be able to get within a mile of it during the drouthperiod. If built at the edge of the low water channel, they will prob-ably be submerged or swept away in the next flood-tide. Again, the banks of the Mississippi River are constantly cavingand changing the position of the channel and the course of the towns that were once on the bank of the river are now milesaway from it, and some that once prospered on its banks have beenwholly destroyed and washed away by its waters. The magnitude dfthese changes may be appreciated when it is known that the river 130. 131 has lost 242 miles of length by cutting off bends, within 200 years, andprobably regained most of it by lengthening other bends. Attached hereto is a map, copied from a government report, show-ing a typical portion of the Mississippi River, near Greenville, the National Government spends immense sums to protect thebanks with revetment work, it is highly probable that the proposedcut-oifs shown will actually occur. A gentleman in Greenville pointedto the middle of the river and told me that his office had once beensomewhere in that vicinity. Business men, familiar with these facts, and perceiving that it isimpossible to establish or maintain permanent warehouses for storage,at which bo
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