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students of the Ohio State University,
Mr. C. P. McClelland and Mr.
C. C. Huntington, working under the
direction of Professor J. E. Hagerty
of the Department of Political Science
and Economics, Ohio State Uni-
versity, and by whom the preface is
written. In an introductory note
by the Secretary of the Society it is
said: "This monograph does not
attempt, of course, to discuss in any
way the question of the policy of
the State as to the retention or
abandonment of the canals. The pur-
pose has simply been to put forth in
concise and accurate manner all
the data necessary for a thorough
understanding of the constructive,
financial and economic history of the
Ohio canals."
Probably no other single publication
presents in so concise and
complete a manner all the information
concerning the various features of
the history and construction and use of
the canals as does this volume.
It treats exhaustively of the cost to
the state, method of raising the
money, manner of building, extent of
traffic and travel upon the same;
the industrial and economic effect, both
direct and indirect, upon the state.
There are complete tables of the
financial features of the canals, rates
of toll and so on for each successive
year from 1827 to the present time.
An excellent map of the Ohio canals,
proposed, existing and abandoned,
drawn by Mr. A. H. Sawyer of the Canal
Commissioner's office accom-
panies the little volume. For many years
there has been a great demand
for the varied information which this
little volume supplies. It is sold
by the society at the prices of 50 cents
and $1.00 for paper and cloth
editions respectively.
ELECTRIC RAILROAD TO SERPENT MOUND.
We have received a prospectus setting
forth the proposed electric
railroad which is to be built from
Hillsboro, Highland County, through
Peebles and West Union, Adams County, to
Aberdeen, Brown County,
and touching at many intervening towns.
This project particularly in-
terests the members and friends of the
Ohio State Archaeological and His-
torical Society, as the road will pass
the entrance of the Serpent Mound
Park, thereby rendering Serpent Mound
accessible in a manner which
has never before existed. As it is now
it can be reached only by
vehicle travel from Peebles, the nearest
railway station some six miles
distant. Inconvenient as its location
now is, hundreds visit it each year
but with the proposed methods of
approach the number of visitors will
be vastly increased and the interest
taken in this wonderful pre-historic
monument will be greatly extended. Those
of a highly sentimental and
poetic temperament may be somewhat
"shocked" if indeed they do not
lament, that this curious earth
structure of a vanished race is to be a
side station of the electric currents of modern rapid transit.
But the
advance of modern conveniences is no
respecter of persons, existing or
extinct. It is a far cry from the
centuries ago when the Mound Builders