Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-10-23
Mississippi Valley Navigation
COMPANY
TuR- r ID
SOUTH AND WEST,
No. lIs C%arOndeIet Street New Orleans.

No. llo carondelet Street New Orleans.
Capital Stock, $1,000, 600
Shares (each), -sI0Oeach
To the owners OF Real Estate in louisiana.
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas
and Alabama:
T'HE COMPANY KNOWN 10 THE PUBLIC
4 as the . Mississippi Valley Navigation
Company Of the South and West" is organ
lied under a charter from the State Of Lou
isiana. This charter authorizes a capital
stock OF 1ve hundred thousand dollars, with
the privilege of extension 10 one million.
That the public may know the exact object Of
tile Company, the third article Of the charter
is given entire as follows:
"The object of this Company Is to con
struet or Otherwise to procure eIa maintain
one or more steamboats, or other vessels, to
run on and navigate she Mississippi river, or
its tributaries, Tor the purpose Of carrying
freight, mails and passengers; to construct
docks whaRves, buildings and such other con.
strneti9ns as may be neeeFSaFy % the bqild-
exercise sae9 t~heldeRtal powers and priyi-
leges rs are hereby or may be conferred on
them Rr the purpose aforesaid,
n Company propose, under the provision
of this charter 20 construct q line of Low
PRESSURE steamboats, 10 run between the diff
ierent ports G. the mississippi river and its
make better time, land freight and paSsenl
gers without rounding-to, and, by means OF
endless chains and elevators, receive grain in
bulk and discharge 1t at for shIpmentI dfs
rectly on board the vessel intended 70 reserve
i. instead OF the pFeSrAs moae az putting 10
s3pssse. ne BSafs ii ais5 he Giy HSSSr i aea
distinct eoIhpartments-so, II they aneaunier
snags, or any accident should happen to the
hull, the beat viii rot be endangered. They
WflT Rise have complete apparatus for extin-
anishing IRE by steam, and conducting water
over the vessel for domestic use; and Will L.
la every respect safer, swifter, and better
adapteQ Tor Carrying p~asSaAezFs and freight,
and at a ebeSpsF ATe fhah any boats nov
ney,Ss,iBg BgMssslSsippf river.
BEfng to the Difficulty Of obtainins cash
how great its merit, the Company have de-
terminated to observation-disclosures andto
the Capital stock. In doing so, we have Il
- Enss 3 sHSs exRssssa p ssas w aha "a a sho r timSs
lands NilFeohsiderablY Appreciate in Value
tnls plAn VIII afford Us our Of revenue
entirely seperate and distinct, and when
cannot saSsS in IA pssAafaf s sehaiEs Of thEne s9f b
10 make h stock q profitable investment,
Parties having land which produces them
little or nothing, but on which they are pay
ing taxes, and which cannot be sold at pres
emf, except ut q great sacrifice, and perhaps
not at all, VIII ON reelection. see this to be an
excellent and unusual plan for realizing on
Them, as the certificates of stock Of = com.
pany can be much more readily disposed Of
than lands,
been offered n subscribed.
Backs OF subscription TO the capital stock Of
the Company are now open at the ONCE, lis
~Carondelet street, New Orleans,
Parties at a distance, desiring TO subscribe
lands, must send TO the local agents alb
straet Of title, mortgage certificates, evidences
that the taxes have been paid, testimony of
land, price, and, in fact, all Information ne
cessary 10 give the Company q satisfactory
Idea OF the land offered
CHAS. r BENTON, Secretary.
Ut. sWATNE President.