Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volumen3,Parte2 |
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... feet would be the entire length . Any engineer will admit that there are no mechanical forces which amount to engineering difficulties in doing that . The sketch shows that we can draw it up perpendic- ularly . Mr. DAVIS . What is the ...
... feet would be the entire length . Any engineer will admit that there are no mechanical forces which amount to engineering difficulties in doing that . The sketch shows that we can draw it up perpendic- ularly . Mr. DAVIS . What is the ...
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... feet wide , and making it 52 feet wide , and the deepening of the canal its entire length , giving full 7 feet of water where it is now less than 7 feet . The average freight during the season of navigation in 1872 received by the ...
... feet wide , and making it 52 feet wide , and the deepening of the canal its entire length , giving full 7 feet of water where it is now less than 7 feet . The average freight during the season of navigation in 1872 received by the ...
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... feet wide , and admit boats with the present lock - gates 963 feet long and 174 feet wide . The prism of the Erie and Oswego Canal , on the present plan , is 52 feet at the bottom , 70 feet at the water - line , and 7 of water . The ...
... feet wide , and admit boats with the present lock - gates 963 feet long and 174 feet wide . The prism of the Erie and Oswego Canal , on the present plan , is 52 feet at the bottom , 70 feet at the water - line , and 7 of water . The ...
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... feet wide , with boats 22 feet beam , carrying 600 tons cargo , the time of lockage would be much quicker and the capacity of the canal would be largely increased . The enlargement of the Erie Canal locks to 25 feet wide , in accordance ...
... feet wide , with boats 22 feet beam , carrying 600 tons cargo , the time of lockage would be much quicker and the capacity of the canal would be largely increased . The enlargement of the Erie Canal locks to 25 feet wide , in accordance ...
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... feet above sea - level ; the Erie Railway at an elevation of 1,760 feet above sea - level ; the Phila- delphia and Erie Road at an elevation of 2,006 feet above sea - level ; the Pennsylvania Central Railroad at an elevation of 2,161 ...
... feet above sea - level ; the Erie Railway at an elevation of 1,760 feet above sea - level ; the Phila- delphia and Erie Road at an elevation of 2,006 feet above sea - level ; the Pennsylvania Central Railroad at an elevation of 2,161 ...
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Página 250 - ... freight or cars or unjust discrimination in relation thereto be deemed and taken in all courts of this state as prima facie evidence that the rates therein fixed are reasonable and just maximum rates of charges for the transportation of freight and cars upon the railroads...
Página 661 - This applies to the case of a road, a canal, or a railway. These are always, in a great degree, practical monopolies ; and a government which concedes such monopoly unreservedly to a private company, does much the same thing as if it allowed an individual or an association to levy any tax they chose, for their own benefit, on all the malt produced in the country, or on all the cotton imported into it.
Página 486 - That the governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of the senators and representatives in congress from this state.
Página 661 - It is perhaps necessary to remark, that the state may be the proprietor of canals or railways without itself working them; and that they will almost always be better worked by means of a company, renting the railway or canal for a limited period from the state.
Página 327 - Such notice must state the time and place of the meeting, and its object, and the amount to which it is proposed to increase the capital stock. The proceedings of such meeting must be entered on the minutes of the proceedings of the company, and thereupon the capital...
Página 250 - The railroad and warehouse commissioners are hereby directed to make, for each of the railroad corporations doing business in this State, as soon as practicable, a schedule of reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight and cars on each of said railroads...
Página 661 - There are many cases in which the agency, of whatever nature, by which a service is performed, is certain, from the nature of the case, to be virtually single ; in which a practical monopoly, with all the power it confers of taxing the community, cannot be prevented from existing.
Página xx - An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States...
Página 661 - But in the many analogous cases which it is best to resign to voluntary agency, the community needs some other security for the fit performance of the service than the interest of the managers; and it is the part of government, either to subject the business to reasonable conditions for the general advantage, or to retain such power over it that the profits of the monopoly may at least be obtained for the public.
Página 250 - Provided, that the schedules thus prepared shall not be taken as prima facie evidence as herein provided until schedules shall have been prepared and published as aforesaid for all the railroad companies now organized under the laws of this State, and until...