Report of the Committee of the National Board of Trade on a Continuous Water Line of Transportation Through Virginia, 1869 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of the Committee of the National Board of Trade on a Continuous Water Line of Transportation Through Virginia, 1869The classes of freight chie¿y carried by the canals are the heavier products of agriculture and those of the forest and the mine. The N ew York canals carried in 1867, of the products of the forest tons, valued at while the amount of this class of products carried by all the railroads of the state in the same year was only tons, having a value of only In respect, however, to articles of higher value, the case was re versed, the railroads of the state having carried tons Of animal food, valued at while the canals carried only tons, valued at Thus railroads and canals supplement each other, the canals relieving the railroads of cum brous products paying low freights, while the railroads carry those articles which could not await the slow transit of the canals and which a¿'ord high charges of freight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.