Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New York1859 accompanied by volume of maps with title: Engravings of plans, profiles and maps, illustrating the standard models, from which are built the important structures on the New York State canals. |
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Pagina 8 - In 1808 the surveyor general was directed to survey a route for a canal from the Hudson to Lake Erie. He employed James Geddes, who reported that canals could be made from Oneida Lake to Lake Ontario, around the Falls of Niagara, and on a direct route from Seneca Kiver to Lake Erie. Three years later a Commission reported that a continuous canal, on an inclined plane, from Lake Erie to the Hudson was practicable, and would cost $5,000,000.
Pagina 8 - In 1784 a plan tor improving the Mohawk was proposed to the Legislature, and in 1791 they directed surveys and estimates to be made for building canals across the portage from the Mohawk to Lake Ontario, and from the Hudson to Lake Champlain.
Pagina 55 - The Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, and Attorney-General, shall be the Commissioners of the Canal Fund. The Canal Board shall consist of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, the State Engineer and Surveyor, and the Canal Commissioners.
Pagina 13 - Canal constitutes an independent route, extending the navigation of the Hudson to Lake Champlain, and thence by the improvement of its outlet to the St. Lawrence, in the province of Canada. All of the above mentioned canals have been constructed by the State. The Delaware and Hudson Canal, extending from the Hudson at the mouth of the Rondout, to the Lackawaxen, a branch of the Delaware, was constructed by an incorporated company, for the purpose of conveying the anthracite coal of Pennsylvania to...
Pagina 19 - The charges cannot be relied upon, in this investigation, because they fluctuate on the various routes and on the different articles conveyed; competition reducing them to a minimum and monopoly raising them to a maximum.
Pagina 19 - The cost however furnishes a more reliable basis for comparison, as the elements upon which it depends are usually effected alike on the different routes. These elements consist of loading, conveying, discharging, warehousing, insurance, and in artificial channels, the necessary expenses of maintenance and to repay the cost of construction. The cost of loading and discharging depends upon the price of labor and the facilities afforded, and the cost of insurance upon the character of the navigation.
Pagina 20 - The fluctuations of their waters and the obstructions of their channels, the higher price of labor, the necessity of employing steam vessels exclusively, and the hazards of the navigation, increase the cost of transportation on these waters. The cost of movement on a canal depends upon the relative sectional areas of the boat and of the canal — upon the actual size of the two, and upon the elevation to be overcome. The suspension of navigation upon the northern water lines increases the cost of...
Pagina 16 - Allegany mountains and the eastern end of Lake Erie, a drift of trade and travel which is not to be found elsewhere on this continent. This concentrated traffic, collected by these fan spreading- lines, must be conveyed between the lakes and the Atlantic through the Erie canal and the central and southern lines of railroads of this State to its commercial emporium, from whence it can be distributed by the ocean lines of steamers and sail vessels to every port on the globe.
Pagina 43 - States shipped in 1 852 at Oswego, and that sent to them by the way of Oswego during the last year, amounted to five hundred thousand tons, the tolls on which are estimated to have been over half a million dollars.
Pagina 7 - The former has been chiefly caused by the progressive improvements which have been made in the construction of this species of internal improvement. The engineers of this country began the construction of railroads by following the plans laid down by their European brethren ; as the latter had unlimited command of capital, so long as their plans were followed in this country the progress of the railroad system was comparatively slow, because capital could not be obtained, and roads thus constructed...