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A TABLE OF PRINCIPAL AMERICAN RIVERS.

NAMES.

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Junction of Coosa and Talapoosa, Ala
Allegany County, N. Y....
Umbagog Lake, Me........

Junction of Chattahoochee and Flint R., Ga.
Rocky Mountains, Col..

Adirondack Lakes, N. Y..

Formed by Locust and Mulberry Forks, Ala...
Highlands, Tex...

Junction of Haw and Deep Rivers, N. C..
Alleghany Mountains, Ga..

Mott and Meherin, N.C........

Llano Estacado, Tex...

Junction of Green and Grand Rivers, Utah,
Lewis and Clark's Fork.....

Connecticut Lake, Vt......

Junction of Oostensula and Etowah Rivers, Ga.

Junction of Poor and Straight Forks, Ky

Catskil Mountains, N. Y

Like Shetek, Minn

Alleghany Mountains. Ga..

Allegany County, N. Y

Sierra Madre Mountains, N. M.

Southern low....

Highlands, Mich.....

Yadkin River, N. C..........

Cumberland Mountains. Ky.

Taganic Mountaius, Mass....

Lake Sanford, Adirondack Mountains, N. Y.

Des Plaines River, Wis....

Jackson and Pastur Rivers, Va
Highlands, Mich......

Junction of Greenbrier and New Rivers, Va.

Smoky Hill River, Kan..

Grand Prairie, lil

Moosehead Lake, Me

Porks Cumberland Mountains, Ky.

Rocky Mountains, Ore....

Junction Brule and Mequacumecum Rivers, Wis..
White Mountains, N. H.

Eastern Dakota.....

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*Source of Missouri River. Source of Mississippi River. Total length from source of Missouri River to Gulf of Mexico, The Missouri River connects with the Mississippi 3 miles below Alton, Ill,

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Volga.

Mackenzie..

Casplan Sea.

Beaufort Sea..

2,400 (River of Doubt) River Madeira.

OPENING AND CLOSING OF NAVIGATION

ON THE HUDSON RIVER, ERIE CANAL AND LAKE ERIE.
NAVIGATION OF THE HUDSON RIVER.

River Open.

Mar. 19, 1889.

Opening of Lake
Erie.*

NAVIGATION OF THE ERIE CANAL.

Canal Open.

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April 10, 1889

3, 1890

337

April 28, 180.

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March 31, 1890

Mar. 22, 1891.

Dec. 24, 1891.

277

May 5, 1891.

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May 1, 1892.

Dec. 5.

919

April 14, 1892

April 1, 1993.,
Mar. 18, 1894.
April 2, 1895.
April 17, 1896.
April 29, 1897.

Dec.

6, 1893.

250

May

3, 1893.

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April 15, 1893

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May

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April 28, 1894

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May

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April 4, 1895

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May 1, 1896.

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April 19, 1896

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May 8, 1897,

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April 6, 1897

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March 25, 1898

Mar. 29, 1-99

Dec. 28, 1899.

275

April 26, 1899

Dec. 1.

219

April 27, 1899

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April 25, 1900

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April 22, 1900

Mar. 28, 1901..

Dec.

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May 7, 1901.

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April 20, 1901

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April 24, 1902.

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9, 1902

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May 2, 1903.

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April 4, 1904.

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May

5, 1904.

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April 3, 1905.

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May 4, 1905.

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April 29, 1905

Mar. 22, 1906.

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May

2, 1906.

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April 15, 1906

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May 1, 1907.

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April 6, 1907

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May 5, 1908.

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April 25, 1908

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May 15, 1909

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April 22, 1909

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May 15, 1910.

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April 15, 1910

Mar. 29, 1911.

Jan.

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May 15, 1911.

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April 15, 1911

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May 15, 1912.

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April 28, 1912

228

May 15, 1913..

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April 13, 1913

+May 15-25, 1914...

April 14, 1914

*At Buffalo. Eastern and Middle Divisions, May 15, 1914; Western Division, May 25, 1914. The record in the above table is kept by the State Superintendent of Public Works.

CANALS.

STATEMENT showing the cost, length and navigable depth of the principal canals of the United States and Canada used for commercial purposes.

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Miles Feet.t

$6,339,098 96

7.320,000 75
2,800,000 22

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25,000 4 5,000,000 64 36 4,455,000 108

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Location.

Chicago, Ill., to La Salle, Ill.

Ellinois River to Miss. River near Rock I., Ill.
Connects Chesapeake Bay with Albemarle Sound.
Lake Mattamuskeet to Wysocking Bay, N. C.
Connects Lake Washington and Puget Sound.
Coalport, Pa., to Easton, Pa.

Connects Rehoboth and Delaware Bays.
At Falls of Ohio River, Louisville, Ky.
Hyde County, N. C.

5 Cincinnati, Ohio, to Toledo, Ohio.

356,000 11

6

5,716,686 217

9

500,000 7

10

8,062,680 274

Morris.

5,100,000 103

5

Muscle Shoals and Elk R. Shoals

3,156,919 16

North New River.

56

N. J. Coastal Inland Waterway

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Oswego.

5.239,526 38

Pennsylvania.

7,731,750 193

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Portage Lake and Lake Superior
Port Arthur (ship canal).
Sabine-Neches..

1,725,000 25

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70,000 10 4,000,000 118 12,461,600 108 64

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287,000 1 20 1,180,000 3 20 9,400,000 1% 18%

9,475,000 14244

Jersey City, N. J., to Phillipsburg, N. J.

Big Muscle Shoals, to Elk River Shoals, Tenn.
Lake Okeechobee to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Cape May to Bay Head, N. J.

Cleveland, Ohio to Dresden, Ohio.

Oswego, N. Y., to Syracuse, N. Y.

Columbla, Northumberland, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
From Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior.
Port Arthur, Tex., to Gulf of Mexico.

Port Arthur Canal to mouth Sabine River, Tex.
Salem River to Delaware River, 4 miles below

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5,531,332 133

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5,000,000 1

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8,000,000 14 15 12,464,651 155

$29,250,951 264 14-22
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the rapids between

Chambly and St. Johns.

Cornwall to Dickinson's Landing.

Montreal to Lachine.

Connects River Ottawa with Lake Ontario,

Connects Lake Superior and Huron at St. Mary's

River.

Cascade Point to Coteau Landing.

Trenton to Lake Huron.

Connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erle.
Along St. Lawrence River.

And improvements. Navigable depth. Under construction. Not including cost of Improvements and changes in locks, etc.. now under way. tt Consisting of the Farrans Point, Rapide Plat and Galops Canals. (a) Original cost of canal extending from Cleveland to Portsmouth, 317 miles, but now abandoned between Portsmouth and Dresden.

The Erie Canal, Oswego Canal and Champlain Canal are now being enlarged by the State of New York to a depth of 12 feet, and with locks of a capacity to pass barges having a net torsage capacity of 2,000 tons each. The enlarged Champlain Canal between Northumberland and Whitehall, a distance of thirty-five miles, was completed and placed in commission in May, 1914 Several large sections of the Erle Barge Canal already have been completed and are in commission. At the time the ALMANAC went to press no definite date had been fixed for the opening of the Barge Canal throughout its entire length. The type of boat which may best navigate the new canal has not as yet been determined, but inasmuch as the lock-chambers will have an available length of 310 feet and a width of 45 feet, in all probability craft 150 feet in length by 30 or 35 feet in width will be best adapted for the new waterway. The estimated cost of enlarging the Erie, Champlain and Oswego Canals was $101,000,000.

**The cost of enlarging the Cayuga and Seneca Canal to the same capacity as the improved Erle Canal is estimated at $7,000,000.

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The London Economist supplies the following table, showing the net tonnage of steamships and sailing vessels on the register of Great Britain and Ireland from 1840 to 1912:

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Metric System of Weights and Measures.

THE METRIC SYSTEM has been adopted by Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, etc., and except Russia and Great Britain, where it is permissive, by all European nations. Various names of the preceding systems are, however, frequently used: In Germany, kilogram- 1 pound; in Switzerland, 3-10 of a metre-1 foot, etc. If the first letters of the prefixes deka, hecto, kilo, myria, from the Greek, and deei, centi, mili, from the Latin, are used in preference to our plain English, 10, 100. etc., it is best to employ capital letters for the multiples and small letters for the subdivisions, to avoid ambiguities in abbreviations: 1 dekametre or 10 metres 1 dm. ; 1 decimetre or 1-10 of a metre 1 dm.

The METRE, unit of length, is nearly the ten-millionth part of a quadrant of a meridian, of the distance between Equator and Pole. The International Standard Metre is, practically, nothing else but a length defined by the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar at 00 Centigrade, deposited at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Paris, France.

The LITRE, unit of capacity, is derived from the weight of one kilogram pure water at greatest density, a cube whose edge is one-tenth of a metre and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a metric ton.

The GRAM, unit of weight, is a cube of pure water at greatest density, whose edge is one-hundredth of a metre, and, therefore, the one-thousandth part of a kilogram, and the one-millionth part of a metric ton.

The Metric System was legalized in the United States on July 28, 1866, when Congress enacted as follows:

The tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system, and the tables may lawfully be used for computing, determining, and expressing in customary weights and measures the weights and measures of the metric system. The following are the tables annexed to the above:

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TABLES FOR THE CONVERSION OF METRIC WEIGHTS AND MEASURES INTO CUSTOMARY UNITED STATES EQUIVALENTS AND THE REVERSE, From the legal equivalents are deduced the following tables for converting United States weights and measures:

METRIC TO CUSTOMARY.

LINEAR MEASURE,

CUSTOMARY TO METRIC.

Me

Yards Me- Miles➡ Külotres.

metres.

1,60935

8.21869

4,82804

41.219202 43,657607 4

6.43739

8.04674

9.65608

MeKilome- | Ins. Cen-| tres-Ins. Metres Feet, tres Yards. tres Miles. timetres Feet Metres. 139.37 13.28083 1-1.093611 1 0.62137 1 2.54 1 0.304801 | 1-0,914402 1 2 78.74 2 6.56167 22.187222 2-1. 24274 25.08 2-0, 609601 21.828804 2 3 118.11 3 9.84250 3 3.280833 31.86411 3 7.62 3-0,914402 32.743205 3 4157.48 413.12333 44.374444 42, 48548 4-10.16 5-196.85 5 16,40417 55, 468056 | 5_3, 10685 5-12,70 6-236.22 6-19.68500 66.5616676 3.72822 6-15.24 7 275.59 7-22.96583 7. 655278 7 4.34959 717.78 8 314.96 8 26,24667 8-8.748989 84,97096 9-354.33 9-29.52750 99,842500 9–5, 59233

SQUARE MEASURE.

2_0.310 221.528 2 2.392

5 1.524003 54, 572009 5 6-1,828804 6-5.486411 6 72.13360476, 400813 7-11, 26543 820.32 8 2.438405 8-7.315215 8-12.87478 922,869—2, 743205 98.229616 9-14, 48412

CUBIC MEASURE,

10.02832

10.155 1-10.764 1 1. 196

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33.558

3105, 943

30.08495

4-0.11327

3-0,465

40.620 5 0.775 60,930 71. 085 8-1.240

3-32.292

443.055 4- 4.784

553,819

5- 5.980

6_64.583 6 7.176 7 75.347 7- 8.372 8 86.111 8 9.568 9-1.395 996,874 910, 764

LIQUID MEASURE.

4141, 258
5-176.572
6211.887
7-247. 201
8 282.516
9-317.830

5-0.14159
60. 16990
7-0.19822
80, 22654
9-0,25485

DRY MEASURE.

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SQUARE MEASURE.

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1- 6.452
2-12,903
319,354
4 25.806
532.257
638.709
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LIQUID MEASURE.

1- 2.957
25.914
38.872
4 11.829
514.786
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65.67816

7-2.46675

720.701

7-6,62452

82.81914

823.659

8-7.57088

93.17154

926.616

8 30.28348

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