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Coal is available from Southern Illi- nois, Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia via river barge; aluminum pigs come from the Houston, Texas, area by river barge; and steel and pig iron products are brought to the Quad-Cities from the Pittsburgh and Chicago areas on the Inland Waterways System. In nnany cases, appreciable sav- ings in freight costs are available to indus- tries who can make use of the Inland Water- ways System for the movement of large quantities of raw materials and finished pro...ducts. Shipments by barge through the Rock Island Municipal Barge Terminal include coal, steel, aluminum pigs, sand, gravel, farm machinery, sugar and other miscel- laneous products. These products and many others are available in large quantities at low transportation cost to the industries of the Quad Cities area. Shipping by barge on the Upper Mis- sisippi is active approxinnately 10 months out of the year and is growing in volume every year. In the 10-month season of 1954, a total of 5, 035, 556 tons of freight moved through Lock 15, at Rock Island.
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