Show I IHockedby Sllokeng SAN FBAKCISCO September 11 = The Sacramento river is now so filled up by debris and sickens washed down from the mines worked in the past yeiirs that the passenger and freight boats can no longer reach Sacramento The passengers passen-gers and freight have to be transferred to light draft bargesatthe bend of the river below the city All the grain from the upper valleys shipped bYwater baa to be lightered downit the barges draw more than three feet The shoaling of the river has increased so rap I idly during the last three fears I that unless measures are promptly taken by the government to thoroughly dredge the lower basin there is every probability that Sacramento City and all the great grain growing valleys oOJ Northeastern California llF be cut off from water communication with San Francisco The Board of Trade of Sacramento has invited the California Senators and Representatives to Congress to take a trip up the Sacramento River andnote the condition of the stream An inspection inspec-tion will be made on Wednesday next |