Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-01

The Memphis and st. Louis Packet
Company has eleven magnificent steam
ers, giving US a daily line TO st. Louis.
Thess boats cost from $50, OOOIto 500, 900
each, and are unsurpassed in speed, in the
excellence Of fare and accommodations
for passengers, and in promptness in all
business Transactions. The boats belong
ing TO this line are the Belle Memphis.
Belle st. Louis, City of Alton, City of
Cairo, City OF Vicksburg, Marble City,
Grand Tower, Julia, Rubicon, Colorado
and st. Joseph.
IL is proper to notice a fact, to which the
attention Of the Chamber of Commerce
has been heretofore directed, that this
Company has six boats plying between
st. Louis and ~Nicksburg, and touching at
this port. The cotton crop of Vicksburg
is sold here and in New Orleans, and none
OF it in ST. Louis; and yet these packets
have such an influence upon trade that
al supplies for the Yicksburg market are
bought in st Louis, through the interview
ton OF this packet company. Its freights
are purchases made in st. Louis by the
agents Of the packet company, for trades
men and others of V~icksburg. Thus we
see a valuable trade of a prosperous South
ern city, borne by our verydoors by these
steamers. b loss to Memphis is enOr-
nous, aud the only remedy consists in
the establishment and maintenance of a
Memphis and Nicksburg line, with which
thai of st. Louis could not compete.
Memphis is only half the distance from
Nicksburg which separates that city from
st. Louis. A Vicksburg merchant would
send his orders to Memphis because they
would be more speedily filed; now he
sends 20 st. Louis because they are
promptly filled.
MEMPHIS n Z LINE.
- value; Tonnage
steamer belle Lee--------SI00,00 1000
Run during the cotton season. Capacity for
carrying cotton about 45O0 bales each.
The Richmond and Noble Able are
also run as Independent lines in his
trade.
MExPHIs AND FoRKED DEER RIVER LINE.
Packet. Value. Tonnage.
Steamer Sallie N.---..-.S5Ot0 lao
THE CINCINNATI LINE.
The Memphis and Cincinnati packet
line conducts a trade as valuable almost
as that of one of our great railway lines.
Going North, these steamers are freighted
with cotton, hides and other Southern
products, and return with furniture, gro
ceries and merchandise. Fiv excellent
steamers are employed, h Alice Dean,
Robert Burns, Silver Moon, Sam j. Hale
Il Minneola. The company owning
these boats is represented by Larry Harm
stad, and its condition and services to the
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cisted to require any detailed exposition
of its affairs.
ST. FRANCIS RIVER LINE.
The Memphis and st. Francis river
Packet Company owns two steamers,
the st. Francis and s. G.. Day. They
have done well, and brought to this city
a large trade.
THE N OSCEoLA LINE.
The Oil City has been reitted, painted
and furnished, and will enter the Mem
phi5 and DseeOla trade; and so probably
will the George w Cheek.
Local Steamboat Lines.
The appended table shows the number
and tonnage of steamboats, registered at
this city for the year ending Tune 30, 1870:
Number Of steamboats, owned and en-
40
tonnage OF AU,5D6
Number of boats changed to other dis
trlcJS during J.
tonnage OF 1874
umbersunk and 10
| Dismantled z
loDuaSeOI 3t
lotaI tonnage LBS