Show I TO CARRY FLOUR ON UPPER MISSISSIPPI ST. ST PAUL Minn Tho Tho first serious steps in many years toward restoring to tho the upper Mississippi 1 river the volume volume volume vol vol- ume of traffic experts believe it should carry are embodied in conferences now in In pro progress ress between leadin leading Minnesota millers and river men which it is believed believed be be- liend will result in bar barging an immense immense im Ira- mense moose amount of flour hereafter from the head of navigation at St. St Paul through to salt water at New Orleans From St. St Paul to Atlantic tidewater the flour rate is 23 cents Little LittIe except a slight li ht lake differential can be saved by forwarding via ia the head of the great reat I lakes and Buffalo From St. St Paul we believe we can barge flour to New Orleans or upper Ohio river points alike aliko for 15 cents said a representative of the millers This ThiR is a clear elear saiD saving of 8 cents a hundred and in addition we are confident dent lent that this traffic can be maintained on a schedule of twenty days for Jor the down clown river trip to New Orleans ten days to St. St Louis and twenty days or possibly slightly less to the upper Ohio From Prom present indications I think we will send down the first string of barges before the close of the present navigation navi gation season Suitable barges for flour traffic can be built for each and will last inthe in inthe the tho opinion of river men Omen from ten to fifteen years rears Each will carry ten carloads carloads car car- loads leads of freight at average e stage and even more in high water The millers point out that an especial espe cape cial ial advantage of exporting via New Now Orleans will be that on cargoes destined to South America or Mexican points or for the tho isthmus the cost of transshipment transshipment trans trans- shipment at New Orleans will be less Jess than from front all tail rail or lake and rail lines at eastern seaboard points point |