$2.5 million

is the cost to build a straight canal from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, a distance of roughly 115 miles, with leeway for the cost.

Canals allow rivers to be moved and redirected.

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Steamboat transportation

Steamboats help to reduce the cost of upriver mobility by over 90%. This enables farmers to participate in the market economy because they move crops up and down the nations waterways.