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The New United States
MacDonald, William | April 19, 1919 issue

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This article discusses the policy of the U.S. government regarding inland waterways. Whatever attitude the Federal Government may have assumed towards the question of inland water transportation, it has not been open to the charge of niggardliness or lack of interest. No opposition from the U.S. with water transportation systems of their own to guard and develop has been evoked by the enlargement of Mississippi River commerce. From the early days of the raft and the canoe to the days of the steamboat and the steel barge, the rivers of the Mississippi Valley have continued to carry an appreciable volume of commerce, both freight and passenger.

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INLAND navigation; COMMERCE; EXPENDITURES, Public; STEAMBOATS; MISSISSIPPI River; UNITED States
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