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Jane, 1912 OUTER HARBOR 20/7. DEEP OR OVER SCALE-ASQ M/LE - | CLEVELAND ERIE BUFFALO DULUTH MILWAUKEE S.CHICAGO ASHTABULA CHICAGO LORAIN CONNEAUT tt TOLEDO Ooo a1 OO GS KG pt eo S NONE in the vicinity; at Toledo, where the harbor proper is wholly on the river and at considerable distance inland, the river discharging into a large, shallow bay; and at Erie, where there is a natural bar or peninsula forming the harbor, and no river. At all except Duluth, Toledo and Erie, artificial har- bors have been constructed by building enclosing and protecting breakwaters in the lake, and other improvements. have been made at federal expense with the object of adapting the harbor to the. largest type of lake vessel. "The position of Cleveland relative to. the others..in this eretip of [1 har- bors in respect to the several, features specified, is as follows: (1) Population, 1910--Cleveland, second. (2) Distance. trom: manufacturers of the States:--Cleveland, first. (3) Federal appropriations for harbor improvements, to date-- Cleveland, first. (4) Area of outer harbor avail- able for use of vessels drawing 20 feet or less--Cleveland, first. In this, as well as in certain other features of the harbors compared, conditions contemplated by plans for work officially adopted and in progress are considered, though such plans may not yet have been in all respects carried out. (5) Length of . outer. harbor front available for commercial purposes--Cleveland, second. (6) Percentage of available out- er harbor front now utilized for center of United TOTAL COAL /IOVEMIENT /0 SCALE -/00Q000 TONS = | DULUTH 2 ASHTABULA 3 MILWAUKEE 4 CLEVELAND 5 TOLEDO 6 BUFFALO 7 LORAIN o CONNEAUT 3 ERIE 10 CHICAGO | S CHICAGO "lI & THE MARINE REVIEW commercial purposes -- Cleveland, fifth. (7) Length of inner and river portion of harbor available for vessels--Cleveland, fifth. (8) Percentage of inner and river portion of harbor now util- ized for commercial purposes-- Cleveland, first. (9) Relativerwates: of charges of towing company for handling vessels at harbor--Cleveland, sevy- enth. OUTER HARBOR AVAILABLE FOR LAKE VESSELS. SCALE //V/LE = | DULUTH PEE 2 CLEVELAND RR ERD 3 BUFFALO CSUR 4 ERIE ae 5 ASHTABULA SRR 6 MILWAUKEE RS 7 CHICAGO ee 8 LORAIN = 9 CONNEAUT Es 10 S$ CHICAGO a {| TOLEDO NONE (10) Amount of damages to ves- sels resulting from accidents dur- ing the years 1900-1910--Cleveland, third. (11) Total tonnage of vessels laid up. at harbor during winter 1910-1911--Cleveland, fifth. (12) Average number days har- bor open for navigation during year--Cleveland, first. (13) Dry dock capacity--Cleve- land, third. (14) Total ore movement for 1910--Cleveland, third. DRYDOCK CAPACITY : SCALE? SOO LT: Dds] | BUFFALO EE A 2 TOLEDO Pea ian Ba creme MEM EEN Ge Ty 3. CLEVELAND Cae - 4 LORAIN Rea eR 5 DULUTH SRR 6 MILWAUKEE ae 7 CHICAGO FREES & ASHTABULA Saas 9 S.CHICACO 10 ERIE NONE 1 CONNEAUT (15) Total coal movement for 1910--Cleveland, fourth. (16) Total grain movement for 1910--Cleveland, sixth. (17) Total freight movement, all classes, 1910--Cleveland, fourth. (18) Total value of freight han- dled by water transportation, 1910 --Cleveland, fourth. "A summary chart shows the position of Cleveland harbor with each of the features above referred to, and indicates in a general way wherein +t excels, wherein it is below the av- respect to, 10 LORAIN NW ERIE 199 « %OUTER HARBOR USED COMIVERCIALLY SCALL 10% -§ ------ ERIE DULUTH BUFFALO CHICAGO CLEVELAND ASHTABULA CONNEAUT LORAIN i S CHICAGO " MILWAUKEE " TOLEDO NONE oon? on & WwW DY -- = oS erage and in what respects improve- ments are desirable and practicable. "Cleveland has not the advantages of a natural harbor that are found at Erie and Duluth, nor so favorable a strategic position as Chicago with respect to the existing railway transportation systems of the country and to a possible further development of inland waterway sys- tems for barges and vessels of moderate draught, but that Cleveland's location is especially advantageous to the great sources of fuel and ore and to the available transportation routes for bringing them together, and that it has resulting attractions for great manufacturing industries are well known facts; works of channel and har- bor improvement and construction that have already been undertaken at local expense by many municipalities and by some of the states. In this connection notice should be taken of the present activities in Canada in the way of har- bor and canal construction at public expense, particularly the proposed en- largement of the Welland canal, from which Cleveland, as well as other Amer- ican cities, will profit more or less di- rectly. "Within two or three years it is ex- pected that the enlarged Erie canal will be opened for: traffic and the question of utilizing this great work and justify- ing the large expenditures involved to the fullest extent practicable, by extend- ing its benefits beyond Buffalo, has al- ready' received attention. The pending river and harbor bill contains a provi- sion for further survey and _ estimate for a barge canal connecting Toledo Yo INNER HARBOR USEO COMMERCIALLY SCALE 10% = CLEVELAND | 2 ASHTABULA 3 CONNEAUT 4 CHICAGO 5S BUFFALO 6 MILWAUKEE 71 $ CHICAGO 8 TOLEDO 9 DULUTH NONE in «relation © aaeaa