Show A itne 10 0 W it r lit cacini IGI gl Nm nebraska braska is 13 one ot of the young cit t states bad audits its productions are arc just beginning to attract the lie serious attention of the commercial tic it II is iti mated tint that its surplus crop of wheat tf iffa aito jito icar will amount to la three million buchele bui hele while its in corn cora oats barley sad anil live lock hiva have bet become culle important considerations side rations for or the shipping merchants with all this valuable stock fur for sale it fods little encouragement beca because se so fir far it depends upon distant markets III acts and railroads as the be sole mc means ins of transportation the greater part of the grain its citizens sell finds a 2 market io in chiba go EO but the expense of carriage is ao 0 o great that th ho 0 crops q lueany i abaly worth aoi th except so 50 ac ur r aa to supply tho the demands of the farmers themselves sc st louis has h as had its it attention called to thu this condition condit ioa of things slid and proposes to take to advantage of il it it finds re ia spouse in m as aj well is as in western low iowa northern Mi missouri and kauwe ilk ia fart fark in all tho the great tract of country contiguous CC A to the river biter it is proposed that lile business men of all those sections unite for tho the p expose arri oso of establishing company to ran barges from st L louis lau is to I 1 0 a point as far above omaha Is as possible or as will furnish merchandise diso to transport tho the larges might golo go loaded sided both ways way and the cost of transportation can be made very low of course in the contemplation of this picture st draws largely upon its ita hope i ind and its anxiety to overreach chicago may hire biro a tendency to la magnify ahr advantages to be from the tha enterprise serious difficulties will bo be encountered lit in keeping e the missouri navigable through the seasor and the certainly of tho the market is ia what merchants i bucl cinci pilly look to in ii these days of keen rivalry la IQ this therefore chicago will have tho the advantage still it is 6 poss possible 0 that chat the proposed prop oscil plan may bri bring ng to st SL louis a portion ol of the grain produced in the valley of the missouri IN is and the experiment peri i ment appears to be worth trying |