Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-02-02
FOR TIE E.AorlREn.

JAMES ina NAN AWHA RIVEUS-NO ..
From what has been said in the last number, it
clearly appears that the James and kanawh Ia route
wiea those Improvements completed, wiil pos
scss largely the advantage every other exist
my trade way between the interior OF tue Ohio
valley and the Ailunt!c board, and the Euro
Iean nations over The way, in point OF slor,ness
oil Gis;aace: IL now remains 10 shcv that, in
!oint o! cheapness OF transportation, Ills route
would possess similar advantages; and, therefore,
matter OF course, realize, if no, the greatest,
at least very great, proportion ofthat intercourse
ioI!sisnians, or New Workers. may smile at this;
bat 10 Prove It's trath, permit me to indulge N one
OK two statements: still assuming Point Pleasant
the future commercial centre OF the Ohio Valley:
and the expense oil transportation to all the seven
American ports rcsr!ed 10 in TIE hast No. as
LANG ea.ra 10 each other.
Is. was Informed on the M;ssiss!ppi river in
l522. by merchants and Others OIL board the steam
boats Cumberland, Riicmdn, ;lnJ renuessee ani
OF other regular steam packets ON that riycr; and
iiIe Information was corro0orated by several Of the
most respectable trading houses in Nashville,
louisville, Cincinnati and elsewhere, that within
the last five years, the OF carriage OF ton
weight 10! dry goods groceries, Sc from New
Orleans 10 louisville, then for the first time
so low a. S35, including insurance. that it had
ietYienty exceeded $50, and was geaeraliy about
10 dollars, aafi that, in all probability, under the
best improvements and steam boat regulations the
NOS' Wcul very SeiGoHi remain any ICE%tu OF time
under ); 80, and that the of carriage iron, ou-
isYi!ie to Point Pleasant, under like regulations,
was about 5'loiiars per ton. Let US .len assume
for standard, that the carriage and expense of
ton woGld generally be
From New Oleans TO louisville $40
Thence 10 point Pleasant
Total, So
1t was also given as the opinion Of many of the
ynOst intelligent merchants and citizens OF tn. Ohio
Valley, that the aseendIag importing trade
*ione (excll-ive OF descending iraIe) which aanu-
ally passed. Cincinnati, the way up to II. Plea
san, and 10 other points III that valley above r. p
was % or $4,000 tons per annum, and that this
calculation is not TOO high Let reflect that the
import tonnage Of the port OF New Orleans is ex-
ceeded by tliat OF only cities on tie continent
that it is advancing vastly more than any othef
American port, excepting New York, that it must
eer long become the Alexandria of America, and
the queen OF cities, that very large share oG its
imports has always been destined 10 the Ohio Val
hey, above Louisville. Let Us, therefore, concladc
that the ascending trade from New Orleans to p
Pleasant will never he less than 80, 900 tons pcr
annum, which at - dollars per ton as above,
would make the whole cost OF this ascending trade
$3.50 600 per annum.
I'd. / Informed in Wheeling, in 500, from
respectable mercantile sources that the expense OF
conveyance Of Ton weight from Baltimore to
Wheeling on the Fredercktown and National
furnpIkes, was then about 50 dollars that it never
had been less, that it had exceeded I2O dollar.
since the war; since those turnpikcs have been
finished, believe it is about 40 dollars; and that
the carriage of a ton, from Wheeling to Point
Pleasant by Ohio river is generally about 2 dolls,
and 10 Louisville about dollars And that iher G
annually passes Wheeling via that route from Bal
timofe 10 the Ohio country, around and below
Wheeling, al least 20 900 tons Of foreign cCrnmo-
dies, and is annually Increasing, a large share of
which, suppose 5000 tons, is destined so low
down as Point Pleasant; and some so low as Gin
cnnati and Louisville. Let us, therefore, con-
cudc, that the conveyance OF ton, tbs way
ffom Baltimore TO Point Pleasant would be-
To Wheeling s.7O
To PIT Pleasant ,
Total, -
Ire annual sum paid Tor the conveyance OF
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