The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-12
Total, by the Canal,

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Total, by the Canal, 81 ,9l5, 267
By detailed analysis of the foregoing state
ments several interesting facts have been de-
duced, among which are,
lst la respect 10 that portion of the valley
extending from Delphi to Covington, inclusive
throughout which the exporter of produce has
had free choice between the river and the canal
as channel of transportation, the canal ship
ments amount in value to 81 ,224 ,264, while
the river shipments amount 10 1922 ,293. show
ing that preference was given to the canal
during the year 1917, in the proportion of four
TO one. Estimating the tonnage shipped In
both directions the proportion is as fuc to one
in favor of the canal.
| ID OF the total value ofexports BY canal and
river from the State line 10 the south line OF
Vigo county; amounting TO 1914, 576, the
largest item is Wheat and Flour amounting to
81 ,298 ,2l5, or near two-fillhs Of the whole;
the next largest or second item of export is
Pork, Bacon and Lard, which amounts to
81 1891 ,029, or nearly one third of the whole
export. while The next largest or third item of
export is Corn, the total value OF which amounts
TO S56a ,7l9. of over one-sixth of the whole ex-
port.
Sd. From that portion of the valley embraced
in the counties OF Tippecanoe and Fountain,
{
and the export Of Pork and It's product Lard
and Bacon,) are very nearly equal in value
North of these counties, Wheat appears to be
the great staple, while south of them Pork is
| the leading reduction of the country. The
opening of the canal south of Fountain county
will doubtless increase the production of
Wheat in that region. by affording cash mar
ket at all seasons u the year.
4 4th. Estimating the trade OF the Wabash
Valley BY its tonnage, it appears from the facts
collected that the total shipments of produce
south by the river from all points between the
Del phi Dam, and the south line of Vigo county
} amounted in 1917, TO 40,l tons. of which
80 ,008 tons descended the river in fiat boats,
and 81 III tons in steamboats,. The whole num-
Der of fiat boats loaded with produce on the
portion of the river between the points named
was 33l. BY the same mode of compute ton,
il appears that the aggregate Tonnage oil the
same items of produce shipped north by the
canal during the same yeai, from all points east
of Covington inclusive amounts TO 1854
tons.
9th. The total tonnage of the Wabash and
. Erie Canal; estimating the entire transporta,
ton in both directions including exports and
! Imports, together with the local trade, amount
tons were shipped eastwardly towards lake
Erie, and 81, 79S tons were shipped west
ward.
: twill be recollected that the whole of the
country bordering the canal east of Delphi, has
only recently changed proprietorshiP from the
8 Indian 10 the white man; and farther, that the
improvement of this region has necessarily
, been tardy, from the uniform denseness OF the
forest, unrelieved BY the facilities which prai-
, riesafford. The emigration iocking In TO possess
the new lands in this region, has heretofore
made market at home for portion of its pio-
ductons leaving comparatively small amount
, for export. These facts account sufficiently toI
Ihe smaller aggregate value of exports from the
towns above De phi in comparison with those
be low that point. The race of red men who
subsist only by the chase, refusing to cultivate
the SOIL having yielded this fertile country to an
agricultural people, under d benihcrnt arrange
ment of Providence everywhere observable, the
arm of the husbandman is now rapidly gaining
mastery over this forest; and the region OF the
Upper Wabash has already reached that stage
in the history of its improvement. from which
a large aud annually increasing surplus product
may reasonably be anticipated for transporta-
ton.
Below Delphi and from that point TO the
south line of Vigo county, the country in Its
i agricultural improvement is much more ad-
vanced, and the aggregate value OF It's surplus,
COLLECTED for transportation TO distant markets
Is much larger, amounting "a may be seen b,
the foregoing tables of shipment both by ca
nal and rieer, to the immense sum OF near tw
4 and half millions of dolars.~ This large SUN
of money is returned into the country In som
shape or other, either as money or merchandis
as the earnings Of our agricultural labor. And