Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — DATA ON WATERWAYS. [ARTICLE]

DATA ON WATERWAYS.

Commission In Washington Considers Flan of Big Scope. The Inland waterways commission, in session in Washington, considered a plan for the development of waterways looking toward the restoration of navigation not only on the Mississippi River, but on other waterways in various parts of the country. Ths commission has been encouraged In this movement by the various waterway conventions that have been held recently. The commission is working on a preliminary report which it will make to the President outlining the general scope of its plan and which it expects later on to supplement by statistics, which It has collected relating to the decrease in water transportation and the Inadequacy of railroad transportation. The proposed “lakes to the gulf” channel movement, which is already under way, will receive first attention from the commission, which has made two trips down the Mississippi River Investigating river conditions, rates, both rail and water, terminals, ports and the general question of river transportation.