The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-27
WHARF BOAT, AT OHIO CITY,
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best Wharf Boats the river The cabin neatly fitted
Shippers Of freight to this point may that pains
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Charges all times be paid and freight held subject
The price Of Storage Labor Forwarding &c. viii not ex
coed fifty per ton Censgnments respectfully solicited
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RsfereneesnH Pearsons, Ohio City Wood & Shaw; St.
LOUISVILLE LOUIS KY john r. Shaw ' Co., Geo W Givens
~ The Ohio River and its tributaries and Mississippi
be navgated by the largest class of boats except for few
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the Ohio RiveG boats generally need more freight at this
eW Price 6 o p here e New Orleans that viii be
that during high water freight always be shipped from
stages Of water in ali the rivers above the mouth Of the Ohio
the largest class OF boats Obliged to leave their regular
Ohio River to New oeans-hee being generally not more
than four months out of the twelve in which the largest class
of steamboats, be employed above this point with any
thing like full freight and consequently Obliged to lay
up the most Of the season. or run from this point to New wv
freight extremely low prices. Freigh at present undergo
from one to three @ TT ts e n[ can he
handling and the cost of getting the market amounts
instances to double what it should do we believe
that by the producer shipping direct to Ohio City and from
there to New Orleans there will be saving IN freight OF at
least per getting the market Freight can
be stored warehouses at Ohio City, (wen not needed TO
immediate spmen for at most onehalt the cost OF stonng
and shipping the cities above the mouth. Railway will
be constructed from the Wharf boat to the warehouses on the
bank the property intended to be stored that 1t
cannot possibly be soed damagedand when once stored
at Ohio City tcan there remain until suitable market OF
ters of the Atlantic Cesthere being danger OF
Ice low water any thing else preventing shipments from
that point at all times, to meet any contract OF sale
OF the cities above the mouth readily than II the prop
efy was IN hand, ii being point where 1t Is always ayaa
be-of parties sell the OF the Atlantic Cities
(by OF teegraph) in few hours the market should
Justify it. and they contract deliver the at given
time with certainty of reaching the market from this point
Parties shipping in the Fall, with view to get out their
Produce previous the upper being DISTRACTED by
from other cause will find it for their interest TO store
the this point and to avail themselves of the advance
navigation above the mouth of the Ohio thereby reervng
to themselves the power of sending forward at suitable
time and having sold arrival the heavy charges
III New Orleans OF Storage, Drayage, etc.
The Missouri River Is year getting worse ana more
dangerous navigate and thought that the only proper
means OF getting Produce from that Tich and iefe part OF
the State will be by means of Railroad, which now In
contemplation, from Lexington to ONO CITY Dnt when
boats all on the Missouri River ne great advan
Ohio CITY is on high ground entirely above all overflow
and beautifully situated AT present the steamboat Convoy
place to New Orleans and will continue to keep regular
line between the places A line OF boats about to be
established from Ohio City to Pttsburg and all the in
termedate points. and also from Ohio City Galena and
Peru the Illinois River, and also Lexington on the
Missouri River,
Merchants residing above the mouth of the Ohio WILL gen
lhe time OF receiving their goods by ordering them shipped
from New Orleans to Ohio City, and from thence they
be put on boats that will deliver the same at their place of
Ohio CITY Nississippi Co., No. Feb J. 1873. mills I'm