Show I 1 na 8 wo ob abl the itco lion bf div flyer people iii drawn draw rito to tb the aup importance of river craft male mailo of iron arob the sharp competition of tile railroads baid the itu bf the wilteron wa wi teron the make it in nea i deos ry to find som some cheaper and ra more ro liet talut means of af co U apo wooden den csoll te cj will no longell as on tte tbt occa j llcy cost alor lano tano to build and leep keep in repair iron veal vest bols cla of 1000 toni tom burden 8 to lo draw about en cn or I 1 wenty twenty inches of f wilter when loaded loal cd when vessels or the sime ton 9 age C require neuire nearly six feet of wal TI iron sels and barges or oc tons toni bardan reach points that are dowlut out tf if tile liD water draing pol tation ills it is obvious th that at this in tro reduction duclion would prove a stilli alm to improvement and bencat tile country with these theeo iron barges grair grain of the valley could lc be cut to I 1 new or orieana I 1 cans anil and iron propellers carry it ii from thence to 0 new york vert city or lor tenor ten or twelve cents a bushel than b by the and route bothi 1101 st louil louii and ald new oric a ni are pow upon an ail effort to con these 1 I neo lor for inland ind ocean cruice cr cice and we ire cannot but wish tecal success we hope to tl see the efforts n arta or the people claici combined 10 lo bring down the enormous I 1 dalles on railroad iron I 1 i |