Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States ...: Water-borne traffic. 1909U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the ... United States. Bureau of Corporations Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1909 |
Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the ... United States. Bureau of Corporations Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1909 |
Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the ... United States. Bureau of Corporations Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1909 |
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Side 338 - The maximum tidal variation is about 20 feet. The commerce of the harbor is of general character and is carried on by ocean-going sailing vessels engaged in the lumber trade and by a variety of the smaller classes of boats plying between the ports of Puget Sound. Sufficient depth for seagoing vessels has not yet been secured in the dredged channel and basin, though vessels of the deepest draft can go as far as the entrance of the dredged channel, and sailing vessels carrying lumber now reach wharves...
Side 354 - It is impracticable to give definite figures relative to the influence of the project on freight rates. The following, however, may throw some light on the matter. The Union Oil Company pumps crude oil through a 6-inch pipe from its...
Side 156 - As a result of this northward and westward movement of the wheat fields the railroads have lost the advantage in point of distance which they formerly possessed. By the shifting of the wheat-growing districts the lake carriers have been placed upon terms of substantial equality with railroads. In shipping by lake from Chicago it was found that every mile traversed in the passage to Buffalo resulted from the head of Lake Superior is not accompanied by this wasteful expenditure of energy.
Side 131 - La., to Cote Blanche and Vermilion bays by a dredged canal and existing drainage canals or bayous, thence up Schooner Bayou, thence by a dredged canal to White Lake; across White Lake, thence by a dredged canal to Grand Lake and across this lake to Lake Misere, west of the Mermentau River, at an estimated cost of $289,292, with an estimated cost for maintenance of $20,000 per year. The...
Side 156 - At the head of Lake Superior, in the cities of Duluth and West Superior, there has recently sprung up another important milling center. "As the milling industry has in a large measure followed the wheat-growing region westward and northward, it follows that the lakes are now in a more favorable position for competing for the flour traffic than formerly. * * * " We find in the case of flour, as in the case of wheat, that the shifting of the places of production lias put the water carriers in a more...
Side xxiv - ... coastwise as also in foreign commerce. Each of these is the distributing point for an important area and also the terminal of trunk lines of railroads connecting the agricultural and manufacturing sections with the seaboard. Among other ports of importance on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are Portland, Providence, Wilmington. Del., Norfolk, Wilmington, NC, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Mobile, New Orleans, and Galveston. At the various ports traffic is specialized to a large extent. Some...
Side 178 - Altered methods of doing business at the mills also in part explain the greater rail movement. It is becoming the custom to sort lumber where it is sawed, and it is therefore possible to fill orders of consumers and country dealers directly from the mills. These consignments generally go by rail. Formerly the sorting was done by the wholesalers at the great distributing centers about the lakes, who bought supplies by the cargo and often made a large portion of their profits by a nice manipulation...
Side 9 - Milwaukee to 6,000,000 tons. Buffalo and Cleveland are also ports of first importance, both in the volume and in the variety of their commerce, and Buffalo has the largest receipts of any of the Lake ports. The Lake commerce of Buffalo for 1906 exceeded 15,500,000 tons (domestic traffic 14,345,000 tons), and.
Side 156 - The districts which formerly produced a surplus that was almost certain to go by rail now grow but little if any more wheat than will satisfy their own necessities. But the location of the new wheat-growing areas is the important factor. These districts are located directly west of Lake Superior. This fact is clearly shown by the crop maps of the Eleventh...
Side 24 - Each of these is the distributing point for an important area of the country, and also the terminal of important lines of railroad connecting the largest grain-producing sections of the United States with the seaboard, thus making each such port a way station for the grain exported from the United States to other countries and giving rise to the well-known port differential system of rail rates. Other ports of importance are Portland, Providence, Wilmington (Del.), Norfolk, Wilmington (NC), Charleston,...