Congressional Serial Set Volume 5250 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...development of Austria, exclusive of Hungarv, rather more than $100,000,000. Even this was regarded as practically only marking the beginning of the real modernization of these works. Accordingly in 1901 a scheme of expansion was inaugurated and provision was made by legislation for the expenditure of about $50,000,000 on further river improvement and canals. Of this amount, one-third was to be devoted to the rivers--widening, deepening, and regulating their currents--and two-thirds to building canals of modern size. After the money was provided there was a long delay, owing to the desire of the Government's engineers carefully to study the situation and to experiment with the flow of water courses, etc., in order to acquire a large fund of basic information to guide their work. Only recently has the work of actual construction contemplated under this appropriation been seriously inaugurated. This project is regarded as in no way conclusive; the Government designs when this expenditure has been made to place another great sum at the disposal of the department of public works for more work of the same kind. The Hungarian Parliament has been hardly less generous in its provision for waterway improvements. After spending about $40,000,000, chiefly on rivers, very little having thus far teen devoted to canals, Hungary also is making provision for further development of its system in harmony with the plans of the Austrian division of the dual monarchy. In both these countries the railroads are mainly State owned, and just as in Holland, Germany, France, Belgium, and other countries, it is now the settled and unquestioned policy of the Government to devote something like equal attention to the two parallel systems of transport. THE DANUBE AND THE MISSISSIPPI COMP...