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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Vessels frequently have tolay off in sheltered places along this route, waiting for pleasantweather so they can continue, and the time wasted this way, ifsumed up, would be something appalling. There is more com-merce passing Point Judith than any other place in the world,with possibly two exceptions—the canal connecting two of thegreat lakes and the Suez canal. Taking up the subject of freight rates, he said the saving incharges would be very great. Water freight rates are from one-seventh to one-eighth those of railroad rates. For example, railrates from New York to Fall River are $5 a ton and by waterthey are 40 cents. From Norfolk rail rates are $4.40 per ton andby water 60 cents. From Jacksonville, Florida, the railroads col-lect $7.50 per ton and the water rate is $1.25. It would take fourlocomotives and 375 cars to haul the amount of coal that one tugcan bring by means of a tow of barges. Boston alone uses9,000,000 tons of coal a year and this canal route would save from 104
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< A o EmO U lo to 15 cents per ton on freight charges. Reduced to dollarsand cents it means $900,000 a year. Fall River, by this canal, would get into communication withother parts of the country. Steam canal boats would be goingback and forth and the steamers from the South to Boston wouldgo through the canal and make Fall River a port of call. The federal government spent $675,000,000 last year and 60cents on every dollar went for war purposes, and $51,500,000 w^asexpended for harbor improvements, and of this latter sum Massa-chusetts only received $600,000. Ex-Mayor John W. Coughlin said, The people of Fall Riverare deeply interested in this project. The State should take upand assist in this investigation and demonstrate its practicability.Aside from the toll of death that is being annually collected thereis another thing, that of the business interests to be considered.If the United States is willing to go into this project it is up to thecitizens to see that Massachusetts doe

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