Highways and Highway TransportationChatburn, George R.
History
Highways and Highway Transportation
Chatburn, George R.
Roads; Transportation
WARNER, I. W., “Immigrant’s Guide and Citizen’s Manual.” New York,
1848.
FOOTNOTES
[47] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 32.
[48] McMaster, “United States,” Vol. V.
[49]
Length of Miami and Erie Canal 301.49 miles
„ „ Ohio Canal 512.26
„ „ Penn. and Ohio Canal 76
„ „ Sandy and Beaver Canal 79
„ „ Whitewater Canal 32
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Total 1000.75 miles
--Dunbar’s “History of Travel in America”.
[50]
Total mileage of boats clearing from
Fort Wayne in 1849 209,982
LaFayette 162,297
Total mileage by passengers from and to
Fort Wayne in 1849 519,336
LaFayette 505,397
“Annual Report of the Trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal,” 1849.
[51] U. S. Census review of “Agencies of Transportation,” 1880.
[52] Johnson’s Cyclopaedia.
[53] “Recollections of a Busy Life,” by Horace Greeley.
[54] “A History of Travel in America,” Dunbar.
[55] Smith: “Parties and Slavery,” (“American Nation,” Vol. XVIII).
[56] Democratic Platform, 1856.
[57] _North American Review_, Vol. CXXXII, p. 107.
[58] “American Nation,” Vol. XXIII.
[59] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, 180. “John Hay,” by W. R.
Thayer, II, 339-41.
[60] Isthmian Canal Commission Report, Sen. Doc. 57th Congress., 1st
session, No. 54.
[61] Message of January 4, 1904, Sen. Doc., 58th Cong. 2nd Sess. No.
53, pp. 5-26.
[62] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by William Roscoe Thayer, p. 184 et seq.
[63] Letter to Albert Shaw by President Theodore Roosevelt. _Literary
Digest_, October 29, 1904.
[64] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, p. 190.
[65] “Theodore Roosevelt,” by W. R. Thayer, p. 186.
[66] “The American Year Book,” 1919. Appleton, N. Y.
[67] _Panama Canal Record._
[68] For a long list of steamboats built in America, and operated
under their own power prior to Fulton’s _Clermont_, see “A History of
Travel in America,” by Seymour Dunbar.
[69] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV.
[70] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 105.
[71] Henry Howe, “Historical Sketch of the West.”
[72] Statistical Atlas 1900. 12th Census of the U. S.
[73] Charles Barnard in _The Century Magazine_, Vol. XXXVIII,
from which also is derived information relative to dimensions and
decorations of steam vessels, pp. 353-372.
[74] See “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, p. 117.
[75] “Life on the Mississippi,” by Mark Twain, Chapter XX.
[76] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America.”
[77] Warner’s “Immigrant’s Guide and Citizen’s Manual.”
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