The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-12
WHARF BOAT, AT OHIO CITY,

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best Wharf Boats on the river The cabin IS neatly fitted
up for the accommodation of the travelling community.
Shippers of freight this point be assured that pains
VIII Be spared to render perfect and tor Produce
and Others are in progress of erection.
CHARGES can at all times be paid and freight held subject
coed fy per Consgnments respectfully solicited
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B;m rsaF'qns ohC City, WOOD Shaw St
louisville, Ky; John R. Shaw & Co, Geo w. Givens
~ The Ohio River and its tributaries and the Mississippi
River above the mouth of the Ohio are generally too low to
be navgated by the largest class of boats except for few
the dangers shoals nags rocks etc. above the mouth Of
the Ohio River , 9Ga generally ga sed ns egh this
low price from here to New Orleans So that will be
Ohio City 10 New Orleans low prices, and, during low
stages in al the rivers above the mouth Of the Ohio
trade and run from some point above the mouth Of the
Ohio River New Oreans-there being generally
of steamboats, be employed above this point with
thing like FIJI freight and consequently are Obliged N to lay
leans follows that from Ohio City they can afford to carry
from one to three unnecessary shpmens-the freight
instances becoming damaged from five to ten per cent by
in instances to double what it should do We believe
that by the producer shipping direct to Ohio City and from
least 33 per cent getting tire market Freight can
be stored warehouses at Ohio CITY, (when not needed Tor
immediate shpment for at most half the cost of storing
and shipping in the cite; above the mouth Railway will
be constructed from the Wharf boat warehouses on the
bank convey the property intended to be stored SO that
cannot possibly be soed damagedand when stored
Ohio City, there remain until suitable market of
tes OF the Atlantic Ctiesthere being no danger oil
ice low water or any thing else pm from
Advances be obtained on warehouse receipt IN any
OF the cities above the mouth more readily than the prop
ety was IN hand being point where 1t Is always aNaa
be-or parties sell the OF the Atlantic Cities
lby means of teegraph) in few hours, the market shoad
time with certainty OF reaching the market from this point
Parties shipping in the Fall with view get out their
or from other will find it for their interest to store
the same at this point and to avail themselves of the advance
navigation above the mouth of the Ohio thereby reervng
10 themselves the power of sending forward suitable
S and having sold arrival saving the heavy charges
| IN New Orleans OF Storage Drayage, etc.
he simple fact OF much freight from all points above
te 1mt o. me Ohio being ehpped and ghened out TO
s pace oi esfpnen should prove conclusveiy TO all per-
sons that 1t Is the natural and proper point Shipment
Inc m river every year getting worse and more
of getting Produce to rich and fertile part of
the State VIII be by means OF Railroad which in
boats at all on the Missouri River the great advan.
tage of running direct to Ohio City will once be seen
Ohio City on high ground, entirely above all overflow
and beautifully situated At present the steamboat Convoy
and several other large boats. running regularly Ills
line between the places line OF boats about TO be
established from Ohio City to Pburg and all the
ermeeate points, ana also from Ohio City TO Galena and to
Peru on the Illinois River and also to Lexington the
Merchants residing above the mouth of the Ohio WILL gen
orally make great saving the price of freighs and
The time of receiving their goods by ordering them shipped
from New Orleans Ohio City. and from thence they can
be put boats that will deliver the same at tner pace OF
destination without delay an,
Ohio Ctv. Mississippi Co.. No Feb ! 1919 mhl6 I'm