Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — FOR LACK OF SHIPS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR LACK OF SHIPS.

“The Great Northern road alone has been compelled to refuse the shipment of GO,OOO tons of steel rails and 30,000,000 pounds of cotton—all demanded by Asia—simply because there are no water facilities by moans of which this merchandise may be transported to Atlantic ports.”—President J. J. Hill in a recent interview: