Show STEAMER RAILROAD WAR STARTED BY A WOMAN Miss Smith a Salt Lak Visitor Leads Mississippi River Packets' Packets Fight for Southern Traffic Miss 1153 Kathllen Smith editor of othe the St. St Louis Waterways Journal a publication publication publication cation devoted to the interests of the river 11 traffic of the Southern and We Western West West- t- t em ern s. I la Is spending her vacation In Salt Lake and Is stopping at the Windsor Windsor Windsor Wind Wind- sor European hotel exciting is between bet Miss Smith says an fight on the I Mississippi river packets and railroads to capture c. the freight and passenger traffic She is leading the packet fight The Thc he tra traffic on the river Is v very ry good and Is showing a most decided Ira Ira- for fOl the Sh she said Congress recently made an appropriation of or I purpose of or deepening the channel of oC the river and giving some pome addi- addi 1 M le levee e c Pr prote protection lc The rIver Is ls usually very cry low at this time o of year ear and the aim me traffic Is practically lIy suspended ed until the fall fan rains begin This deepening deepening deep deep- ening or of the channel will keep traffic moving all nIl the year rear around The water has been ocen exceptionally high this season and traffic has not yet ret closed When u hen traffic on th the river ceases the railroads get the trade and Interest in river matters matler drops to a low 10 ebb Then when we resume shipping in the spring it tales takes es some Orne time for the packets to pick up their lo lost t trade With the tho deepening of the channel and antI the year the traffic as a consequence consequence conse- conse quence the railroads ls wm m lose a large larbe amount of their freight business That Is what wo we are arc 11 working s for or that Is ls what our paper I Is working working- for Cor In conjunction con con- conI I junction n of or f all nil the other river papers and we expect to win our om fight I Miss Smith will remain In ln the city for ten days days' sl sightseeing When she I returns t to H her home she will write THe her hel impressions of oC the Vest West but denies her intention of doing loing so In Mary MacLane style I |