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The increase or decrease in the tolls on each class of articles, &c., which results in the above increase, is as follows:

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In all reports heretofore made by the canal commissioners, showing the tonnage arriving at tide-water in each year, the Champlain canal has never been separated from the Erie canal, so as to show the character and quantity of tonnage coming from each canal.

For the first time, the separation is now made; and the following statements show under general heads, the description and number of tons delivered at West Troy and Albany, in the last nine years, from each canal:

STATEMENT, showing the Tons of each class of Articles delivered at Albany, from 1835 to 1843, both years inclusive, and coming from the Champlain canal.

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STATEMENT, showing the Tons of each class of Articles delivered at West Troy, from 1835 to 1843, both years inclusive, and coming from the Champlain canal.

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STATEMENT, showing the number of Tons of each Class of Articles which came to the Hudson river, from the Erie canal, from 1835 to 1843, both Years inclusive.

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The annual average of the total number of tons which arrived at the Hudson river from the Erie canal, is as follows:

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8,394

956

tons. 34,631

12,013

170

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The average increase or decrease of each class of articles, for the same period, which results in the above total increase, is as follows:

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STATEMENT, showing the Tons of each Class of Articles which came to the Hudson river, from the Champlain canal, from 1835 to 1843, both Years inclusive.

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The annual average of the total number of tons which arrived at the Hudson river, from the Champlain canal, was as follows:

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The average increase or decrease of each class of articles, for the same period, which results in the above total decrease, were as follows:

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The total number of tons of each class of articles which came to the Hudson river, from the Erie and Champlain canals, from 1835 to 1843, were as follows:

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The annual average of the total number of tons which arrived at the Hudson river, were as follows:

tons.
10,091

tons.
988

tons.
45,038

tons. 675,449

16,126

229

41,062

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The average increase or decrease of each class of articles, for the same period, which results in the above total increase, were as follows:

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The per cent of each class of property which came from each canal, in the last ten years, is as follows, viz. :—

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A reference to the foregoing statements shows that the produce of the forest diminishes, on the average, on both canals; though, on the Erie canal, the tonnage of the forest delivered at tide-water, does not diminish as fast as the tonnage of agriculture from the western states increases.

The Champlain canal is sixty-six miles long, and with Lake Champlain, which is about 150 miles in length, opens an internal navigation of 216 miles. This communication is through a grazing, rather than a grain country. The forests of which, contiguous to the navigable waters, are rapidly disappearing. The agricultural surplus will not materially, if at all, increase; for the largest surplus of agriculture always comes from a comparatively new country, and decreases with the increase of population. The tonnage of the forest will not, of course, increase; for it is plain that in every locality the supply is in an inverse ratio to the demand. Population multiplies, but trees cut down do not soon renew themselves.

A similar average decrease of the tonnage of the produce of the forest on that canal, for six years to come, would completely annihilate it. Though this is not to be expected, the tonnage will doubtless continue to diminish, unless, after the payment of the canal debt, a reduction is made in the rates of toll, sufficient to induce the transportation of wood, lumber, and other heavy products, from a greater distance than is warranted by the present rates of transportation.

That portion of the Erie canal over which the largest volume of tonnage passes, and which, of course, requires the largest capacity, is between Utica and the Hudson river. It is over this portion of the canal that most of the tonnage moves which reaches tide-water.

The course of the lockages between Utica and Albany is furnished by the

lockages at Alexander's lock, the first lock west of Schenectady, and which passes more boats than any other lock on the Erie canal. The lockages in the last nine years have been as follows:

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The average of the up tonnage, for the preceding nine years, is, to the down tonnage, about as 1 to 5. As the up tonnage is merchandise, mainly, and the down tonnage is principally the product of the forest and of agriculture, it is not probable that the former will ever equal the latter.

That portion of the Erie canal over which the largest number of boats pass, is also between Utica and Albany. The number of boats which arrived at and departed from Albany and West Troy, during the last eleven years, was as follows:

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Owing to the internal demand of this state for bread-stuffs, consequent upon the increase of population, it is not probable that the delivery, at tide-water, of the surplus of wheat and flour, the growth of this state, will much, if any, exceed that of past years. The increased delivery at tide-water, for the last eight years, has been, and that of future years probably will be, wholly of the growth of western states. And this increased delivery, it should be borne in mind, is not to be proportioned to the capacity of those states to produce, but to the demand for consumption at tide-water, on the Hudson river. This lengthened transportation of the products of agriculture, which pay nearly half the tolls, will thus increase the revenue much beyond the relative increase of the tons arriving at tide-water. That the increase of delivery of flour and wheat, at tide-water, is the product of western states, is evidenced by the following statement:

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