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Show "The Monitor" that sailed up to St. Louis to help carry out the dedicatory exercises of the big exposition, draws twelve feet of water. That does . J not make a seaport of St. juouis, but it supplies 1 the hint of what should be. The surplus products j of the country west and northwest of St. Louis 1 clear to the base of the Rocky Mountains, should be floated to the sea, down the Mississippi. Could the river be put in order, no land freighting could f compare with tt. This will have to be sometime, 1 oven if the river has to be jetted from St. Louis to New Orleans. It will be a mighty undertaking; undertak-ing; but these are the days of mighty things. There is no other river like the Mississippi, and she should be fully caparisoned for commerce. |