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Show SHELLS FROM MISSISSIPPI. Sixty-Eight Hundred Tons Taken From River Ilrlng SSI, GOO. It is estimated that no less than 6,800 tons of clam sheJls were taken from the Mississippi river between Dnbuque and Red Wing, Minti., the past season, for which buyers p.iid $81,000. Over three" I fourths of these shells were shipped to factories soutii and east, and the freights on thein amounted to $13,600. An estimate of ?170,000 is placed on the pearls, slugs and boroques which were purchased from the diggers. |