Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

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Identifikator:: 1767626746

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-195828

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: III S., S. 508 - 549

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Motor transportation

Collection:: Economics Books

530 COMMERCE YEARBOOK trucks have for the most part evolved a distinct field of transporta- tion—that of the short hauls and the small shipments which are not so profitable for the railways as other traffic, In many cases also motor trucks serve as feeders for the railroads. For further data as to automobiles and trucks see section on auto- motive products. INLAND WATERWAYS Aggregate River and Canal Transportation. The total tonnage carried via our inland waterways, including the navigable rivers and canals, without known duplication, aggregated approximately 173,190,000 tons in 1924. The tonnage passing through the Detroit River, connecting Lakes Huron and Erie was 80,074,000 tons. Of this 8,036,460 tons was local traffic. The navi- gable rivers of the United States accounted for 102,430,000 tons of commerce, excluding through traffic of the Detroit River and all other known duplication of cargo. These figures may be compared with the volume of traffic by other channels of transportation (so far as possible eliminating duplication of tonnage via any one means of transport) as follows: Tonnage originating on railways. Overseas foreign cOMMEeree. oo mo cms Great Lakes trade, eliminating trade between the United States and Canada... _.____ mn Trade between United States and Canada via Great Lakes_____ United States coastwise ocean-borne commerce (excluding Great Lakes and Panama Canal)... .___. om Total of navigable rivers and canals (excluding all known dupli-~ cation) ___._-.-__. SE) AEH te ess mR A River transportation in the United States (excluding transit ton- nage of Detroit River)... _ ___.___. . Canal transportation in the United States__._. - Sault Ste. Marie. _._._._.. cer mmm cem—————a Panama Canal (intercoastal traffic only). _.____. 1, 188, 000, 000 82. 118. 000 83, 292, 000" 12, 930, 000 67, 678, 000 173, 190, 000 102, 432, 000 92, 290, 000 72, 037, 000 13. 527. 000 Great Lakes to Ocean Waterway. The investigations of the Joint Engineering Board relative to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway were continued during 1925 and are to be completed in 1926. The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors (War Department) began investigations, also, regard- ing a Lakes-to-the-Hudson waterway. The Department of Com- merce inaugurated a survey of the principal economic questions in- volved in the Lakes-to-the-ocean waterway projects, which it is expected will be completed about the same time as the War Depart- ment engineering surveys.

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