APPENDIX C-Continued. SOUTHERN TRANSPORTATION CO.-Continued. Barge traffic to South Atlantic through the inland waters of North Carolina and Beaufort Inlet-Continued. Barge. APPENDIX C-Continued. SOUTHERN TRANSPORTATION Co.-Continued. Barge traffic to South Atlantic through the inland waters of North Carolina and Beaufort Inlet-Continued. October, 1915. Raritan.. 844 Philadelphia. Savannah... .do.. Juniper.. 485,809 Biscayne.. 854 Orinoco.. 861 Norfolk. Wilmington, N. C.. New York. Baltimore. Promised Land. New York.. Charleston. .do..... Baltimore.. ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY. EXTRACT FROM BRIEF OF SOUTHERN TRANSPORTATION COMPANY IN MATTER OF The South Atlantic barge traffic is yet in its infancy, having begun in JanIn the short period of 10 months from January, 1915, to October, uary, 1915. 1915, 15 barges made 55 trips. They carried south about 21,000 tons of coal; 4,000 tons of cement, 1,600 tons of plaster, 7,800 tons of gravel; 1,000 tons of fertilizer material, and 1,600 tons of steel rails-a total tonnage of over 37,000 tons. The same barges returned north with about 12,000,000 feet of lumber, 10.000 tons of acid phosphate, and 8.000 tons of piling-a total tonnage of 42.000 tons. While these figures are small as transportation figures go, they are a sure indication of the enormous tonnage which may be expected when the inland waterways are protected from these arbitrary and unnecessary charges upon the vessels using them. These 15 barges on their 55 trips had to pay for compulsory State pilotage, which they never received, approximately $3,600. This amount would have been much larger had the inland waterways permitted the barges to load to an 11-foot draft instead of a 9-foot draft, to which the depth of water now limits them; and of course the burden of compulsory State pilotage will be much heavier as soon as the work of deepening the inland waterways, now in progress, is accomplished. APPENDIX D. ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY. SUMMARY. The following are the sections of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway route as now recommended by the engineers: St. Johns River, Fla., to Fernandina, Fla., 7 feet depth_ (Work under way.) Fernandina, Fla., to Savannah River, Ga., 7 feet depth_ (Work under way.) Savannah River, Ga., to Charleston Harbor, S. C., 7 feet depth. (Work partly under way.) Charleston Harbor, S. C., to Winyah Bay, S. C., 7 feet depth.......... (Construction recommended.) Winyah Bay, S. C., to Little River, S. C., 7 feet depth_. (Construction recommended.) Little River, S. C., to Cape Fear, N. C., 7 feet depth_ (Construction recommended.) Cape Fear, N. C., to Beaufort, N. C., 7 feet depth__. (Construction recommended.) Total southern section Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, St. $251, 726.75 195,000.00 427, 400.00 1, 227, 800.00 5,677, 800.00 3, 724, 219, 00 2,872, 111. 00 14, 400, 000. 00 5, 400, 000, 00 Much of Beaufort Inlet, N. C., to Norfolk, Va., 12 feet depth_. Norfolk, Va., to head of Chesapeake Bay, Md. (Natural waterway requiring no improvement.) Chesapeake Bay to Delaware River, 12 feet depth___ (Recommended for immediate action, including purchase Delaware City, Del., to Bordentown, N. J. Route follows chan- 19408-15-3 8, 000, 000, 00 Bordentown, N. J., to South Amboy, N. J., 12 feet depth___ (Immediate construction recommended.) South Amboy, N. J., to New York Bay (and thence to Hudson Natural waterways requiring no improvement for a 12 feet Total northern section Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Total cost Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, as recom- 20, 000, 000. 00 33, 400, 000, 00 47, 800, 000, 00 LENGTH OF CONNECTING CANALS, ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY. Length of excavation, miles. 1. New Jersey Canal (new project). 33.7 2. Chesapeake and Delaware (existing canal to be enlarged). 13. 7 11. 4 4. Albemarle and Pamlico, Alligator River and Rose Bay (project adopted). 26.3 5. Beaufort Cut (project adopted; existing canal to be enlarged) 6.0 5.0 20.0 15.0 Total Intracoastal Waterway links. 131. 1 Miles. Total length of continuous navigation made possible by above canals connecting existing waterways (about) 1.800 Mileage of 148 rivers interconnected by Intracoastal Waterway. 5.365 500 Total length of Great Lakes which will connect with Intracoastal Waterway 1,489 Lake Champlain, 126 miles; Richelieu River, 65 miles. St. Lawrence River (about) ___ Canadian Inland Waterway (Georgian Bay Canal). 191 1,000 400 |