Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-07-24

We will attempt to show further, how
the building up of market here will ben
eft the farmers of Marion, as well as the
interior, mole than the bare access to the
river.
The building of the IIanniba. and st. Jo-
seph road will ensure the continuation of
The line to Naples, distant 40 miles, (the
engineers are now locating i,0 where il
will connect with roads leading to all parts
of the United States. Six months in The
year, the largest class n. O. Boats can
come to lIannibal they mil come when an
amour I. OF produce is concentrated here sui.
fcient to nIucc them. With the produce
will come business men and capital. The road
will bring, with what will come from other
sources, sufficient to load boat per day,
Of the largest class. The farmer will then
get as much for his produce as can be got
ten in St. Louis, and purchase his supplies
correspondingly. 1t takes about twenty
days average for boat TO make n trip to
rand from New Orleans; would take but
thirty.six hours more TO make the trip here,
or add to her expenses not more than three
per cent, as they would be less on this than
other end, and less charges here than st.
Louis, which would add CT per 100 lbs.
freight. A bushel of whe at is now taxed over
the growth of a st. Louis CO unity farmer an
average OF 10 cents, ard all other products
correspondingly. Again. a railroad com
munication being formed, many of the
more valuable articles, viz: lard. tallow. to-
bacco, hemp, &C., would roach the eastern
market by that avenue at great advantage.
Grea benefits would also result, at times,
in low water and ice, and the receipt of
dry goods, on which the freight would not
equal half the insurance, by any other
, route, tiercc of lard weighing 300 lbs.
would cost, to N. Y; via N. o., So 30.
viz: to st. Louis, 30 cts, freight; drayage D
, cents forwarding ) cents, freight to N. o. O
} cents; expenses in N. o., % cents, freight
to n. Y. GO cents, insurance - per cent, on
$50, IS cents interest for three months AT
10 per cent, IS cents; and one cen; per
,, Lound depreciation from climate, and injn-
, nv to package So 90. Freight to New
, York by railroad, 1000 miles, 10 cents per
I 100 lbs. each 100 miles, So 90; leaving
All Of which advantages would result to
tie farmer, making at least ten per cent on
=, all he sold. Ills purchases would be equal
" favorable: there being justiiiable de-
d. mand, many manufactures would spring
u up here. The same capital, say $4,000,
. would then do business ten times as great.
G % per cent on $4,000 sales leaves
=, bu, $4,000 to cover all expenses; ten per CT.
n profit on 100000 produces $4,000 with
r out much increasing the expenses leaving to
;, the consumer Is per cent. A farmer who
g now sells $500 worth of produce, by that
It means would make ten per cent on sales,
}, and save ten per cent on his purchases,
;. thereby making one hundred dollars more
It then than now, which is the interest on
81 ,GGG GO, at six per cent. AS each fiji ty
acres would yield that amount of produce,
Q it would thereby be enhanced S33 33 per
N acre. Hence, the practical effect, rela.
. lively, is to place Marion in as favorable a
It situation as st. Louis county, with a city
It having population of 10000, and the in
y terror, as the country along the river from
: Keokuk to ST. Louis, with this advantage,
IS no river to produce floods, sickness, aud
d many other inconvenience.
n Nap0leon's Coat of Mail.