Show St Louis New York lO8t Louis traders are quite jubilant over the increasing importance im-portance of that city as an exporter by the w ter route as illustrated by such incidents as the departure the other day of the steamer Oakland for New Orleans with the larceet tow of grain that ever descended ike Mississippi being a total of 20817 too po nd This single cargo we are told would require 700 freight cars to have carried it on thirtyfive separate sepa-rate freight trains and engine Freights to New Orleans are much below those for which the railroads can afford to carry but here the ad antagn in a measure meas-ure ends The port charg 51 the cost of transferring the grain f om the barge to the steamer New Orleans with the enhanced en-hanced marine insurance and various other incidentals bring up the total to a point which other things considered gives Mississippi exporters no advantage over the Allautio port |