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traffic is too great, even 

 for the splendid railroad 

 systems of the State, and 



there is a strong move- 

 ment to rehabilitate the 

 canal system and to ex- 

 tend it. 



Tentative plans have 

 been formulated to con- 

 nect Pittsburgh with 

 Lake Erie by a canal 

 which will touch Ohio at 

 Beaver, enabling the ores 

 from Minnesota and 

 Michigan to come into 

 the Pittsburgh district by 

 water, and the coal from 

 the bituminous regions to 

 float practically from the 

 mouth of the mine to the 

 Northwest. Plans have 

 also been made to bring 

 Philadelphia into touch 

 with New York waters 

 by a canal across Jersey 

 from the Delaware at 

 Trenton, to Raritan Bay 

 at South Amboy. 



It is almost impossible 

 for the layman to realize 

 what vast advantage 

 there is in canal transpor- 

 tation for heavy and slow 

 freight. It costs but little 

 more to bring ore from 

 Duluth, at the head of the 

 fresh-water seas, to Erie 

 and Conneaut and Ashta- 

 bula, nearly a thousand 

 miles, than it costs to 

 haul it from the Erie ore 

 piles to the Pittsburgh 

 furnaces, less than 125 

 miles. 



CUTTING DOWN THE) 

 DISEASE HARVEST 



In matters of health 

 Pennsylvania has always 

 been one of the forward- 

 looking States. It long 

 ago came to realize that 

 the Commonwealth which 

 is willing to give its 



