Report Of The Committee On Internal Improvements On The Condition Of The Chesapeake And Ohio Canal Mr Lynch Chairman

Author : Maryland General Assembly
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ISBN 13 : 9781332870677
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Committee on Internal Improvements on the Condition of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Classic Reprint) written by Maryland General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Internal Improvements on the Condition of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal According to the present tariff, the toll upon coal. Which is the lowest article, . Amounts to one dollar per ton from Cumber land to Georgetown; and supposing one half of the tonnage in the last preceding statement to be descending coal, that there should be no ascending trade, and the boats always return empty, the amout of tolls upon the first of the above statements would amount to per annum with single locks, and with double locks. Applying the same ratio of cal culation to the second estimate, and the result would {be $3, with single, land with double lockage. Each individual may judge for himself of the probability of the data upon which the foregoing estimates have been formed, and varv the result accordingly. To this comparative view of the capacities of the Chesapeake and Ohio, and Eric canals, exhibited with great force and clearness. Your committee will add the further consideration, that while the amount of trans' portation upon the Erie canal, a large portion of which consists of the products of the soil, must necessarily vary with the scantiness or abundance of harvests, the transportation on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal can onlv be limited by the demand upon those inexhaustible fields of mineral deposit, which have attracted the attention of the whole commercial world. And it is mainly on account of the endless supply, ample for all de mands, that canals which are connected with mines of coal, both in Europe and America, have yielded such ample returns for the capital invested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.