Transportation by water, 1906

Author

United States Bureau of the Census

Call Number

• SUDOC C 3.5: T 68 (CEN)

Publication Information

Washington : Government Printing Office, 1908.

Physical Description

xv, 224 pages : illustrations, photograph ; 30 cm

Notes

At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of the Census. S.N.D. North, Director.

"This report covers the calendar year ending Decembr 31, 1906, and has been prepared under the supervision of Mr. William M. Steuart, chief statistician for manufactures. The results of this census were published on March 16, 1908, in Census bulletin 91, which constitutes the first section of this report. The othere sections present the statistics in detail for the Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico, Pacific coast, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence river, the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and canals and all other inland waters, respectively. Representatives of a number of principal shipping companies were consulted in regard to the scope of this census, and it was decided that it would be impossible to secure reliable statistics concerning cost of operating all of the craft necessarily included in the census. The schedule was designed principally to develop statistics which would show the magnitude of the water transportation interests on the coasts and inland waters of the United States, and it was believed that a simple schedule was best adapted for this purpose.." cf. Letter of transmittal, page xv.

National, regional, and state level data.

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