Report of Connecticut Valley Waterway Board on an Investigation of the Connecticut River; March, 1913

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... As has been stated, there was 1,387,417 tons of coal, including hard and soft, consumed in Holyoke, Springfield and surrounding territory during the year 1912. While it is difficult to arrive at any very satisfactory figures for comparison between water and rail freight rates on coal, it is safe to assume that should the river be improved as far as Holyoke, and coal wharves and pockets at Springfield and Holyoke be provided, the result would be a saving to the consumer of not less than SO cents per ton on coal carried to these places by river. On other commodities, such as lumber, rubber, manure, pulp, cotton, paper, paper waste, rags, tobacco, sugar, etc., if the necessity for transhipment at Hartford is obviated, there would be a saving to the consumer of approximately from 10 to 15 per cent. The Enfield Dam And Rapids And The Situation At WindSob Lqcks. During 1908 and 1909 there were introduced into Congress by the Enfield Power Company, the Northern Connecticut Power Company and the Connecticut Kiver Company, three bills for certain rights and privileges relating to the building of a dam and lock, and relocating the dam of the Connecticut River Company across the Connecticut River at Windsor Locks in Connecticut, where a canal and locks, completed by the Connecticut River Company about 1830, existed, and which had for many years been inadequate for use by any but small water craft. In February, 1912, a hearing was held on these bills before a subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, at Washington. Representatives of the Rivers, Harbors and Bridges Commission of Connecticut appeared before this subcommittee and urged the passage of an act which would permit the building of structures and the improvement of the river for navigation purp...