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The gap occurs from Little Falls to Fonda in the 

 Mohawk Valley. At Albany one may travel north- 

 ward to Glens Falls by two routes, and southward as 

 far as Hudson. Several important spurs of electric 

 road lead off north and south from this general line, 

 for example at Syracuse to Oswego and Auburn, and 

 at Herkimer to Oneonta. All this line is broken into 

 a series of pieces by separate ownership without joint 

 traffic arrangements, so that it is serviceable only for 

 local rather than long distance shipment. It is used 

 primarily to get from the rural districts to the near- 

 est large cities. Hence the name inter-urban. This 

 electric service is frequently affiliated with city lines 

 or with steam roads. 



In the southern part of tlie State, there are several 

 pieces of inter-urban electric railroad. The more ex- 

 tensive of these center at Goshen, Elmira, Olean and 

 Jamestown. 



Inland water transportation is provided on the 

 Hudson Eiver as far north as Albany and a large 

 amount of local produce is shipped by this means to 

 New York. The Barge Canal system, represented by 

 the Erie Canal with 339 miles, the Champlain Canal 

 61 miles, the Oswego Canal 23 miles and tbe Cayuga- 

 Seneca Canal 23 miles, with a total length of 446 

 miles, is in such a state of incompleteness that its 

 service as a means of shipping agricultural produce 

 can only be guessed. In its length will be some of 

 the largest canal structures in the world including the 

 highest single lift lock, namely 401/^ feet, at Little 



