Show x Z X x Z X Z x Z x Z x Z X a Z X x Z X x Z X i Z ix x X x Z x x x x Z X z x Z x Z x z x Z SZ X River Traffic Before Days of Iron Horses Horse Before the Civil nur was common along the Ohio river When autumn came carne It was as nn an everyday every oc- oc occurrence occurrence oc occurrence currence to see sec boats boa Ls loaded with prod prod- produce produce uce passing by bJ There would be ap- ap ap apples plea ples from Letart and Rome Home on nn the upper Ohio cabbage cubbage potatoes salt und and cool coal all going to th the cotton anti and su sugar ar plantations below belot Memphis and fled river rh-er Prior to the Civil nor III coal was boated the lie same as us other oher products to the lower river After Uler that period coal began he nn to 10 be carried In drawn by hy towboats Twenty thirty rort forty and fifty fitly years ears a ago o l immense e tows S of or coal were brought out out from h whenever lr the Ohio was WIS suf suf- sufficiently high Those were wera the days duys or of Second look 1001 and Fourth Fo Pool coal and millions of ot bush bush- bushels bushels els Is were brought down the river uy by these thee powerful Ilo towboats After Arter the war the In Interests crests gradually gave gu a way to the rail rull railway way More and und more the railways up the country until Ing Ing n a losing business and aud was Vas finally abandoned ThE country west ot of the Mississippi became settled eWed The produce raised there was delivered to the railway by the Southern markets more quickly and more cheaply than It I could be Ie delivered b by the boatmen The fhe lower Mississippi 11 which was once I known as a both for till the man arid the lie flatboat man has almost lost It Its reputation of or old days 8 The dais da day 0 of the lie bl big cotton rind passenger and of ot the and It Its Jolly crew rew have lIo gone forever Core as have ha the lie red 11 III nina man n rind the Sinn |