The Van Buren press., 1872-04-16
Prospectus, ofa Lima Of Steam, Beats a
the Arkansas and White Rivers.

To be ownsd by. and run in the interest Of Saint
Louis Msrcasau, giving tnroaes nhs 81 Laaamg; s.;
rivers; At rates that will compete NJ any ume Win
those from any other equl ul-distant points. :.
1t is found desirable 10 have line as above indi-
cstsd 10 kc com pose of igat draugat boats snita-
BILE for navigating ths Arkansas and nite Rivers !;
to run from the m0a.a a o. chensor, msr n tSe
River. These boats, should be OF capacity to run
oetw the above named points. aud carry frelshts
and transact business on stage OF water as low IA
thirty incnss making from the mouth a asemi-woek-
Iy trip to ort smith the Arkansas, ana weekly
trip to Jacksonport on the White hirer and CON
Meeting at the mouth OF White Alver with the daily
or weekly hnes of packets, that run now from SAINT
LOUIS 10 uelow the proposed point Of eennection.
Inns will require four small stern wheel boats that
would cost not over s20,0OU each and W harf boat
TO be placed at the mouth OF Shito River to cost not
over tslU, go; making Il maeinum aggregate OF not
over Su,OOV to stock botn the Arkansas and " hits
River Lines in fuli worki1g order; -,
The Utility OF getting ireigh from Saint Louis to
these sections, at rates competing with those from
other cities east of the Mississippi ivsr, all should
know, with the ;ae: staring S'sm IN the face that
uch OF the trade snat last year came to saint Louis
is now oang diverted to Lonissiie, Cincinnati, ana
other Esalern Cities simply because cheaper r,p;s OF
freight afo obtained from such points
Inc economy of running TINS line In this way can
not evident TO any one, IN view OF the facts,
that the round trip from ST. Louis to Fort Smith and
back to saint Louis is zf0 miles in distance l3vU
miles on tne Mississippi isver, anu llvJ oa the Ar
kansas u small boat such as is suitable to run on
the Arkansas River runs this i5o miles ON the Ms
for ch her 6utid and cpoeV rser her To-
talv Utt. and really unsaiv; ana where she cannot
possibiy have any torut trade OF bsiess when, IN
stead doing she could run the l0O miles on the
Arkansas River, max ng another ipi trip, where she
,vould hdue local trade, having the trelghts from
Saint Louis brought to the mouth oil white RIVER oy
the large Packets nat hare the local trade OF the
Mississippi River and in consequence are otte oand
do carry ifeights at less tarin rate than any othor
ine.: the sinai boats could thus be enabled to de-
liver freight on the Arkansas River, at prices com
netting with boats from any other point, "Itnout
danger ot losing money by so dong. On hite Kiy-
or the ratio of difference is even grsater' there being
INT 800 miles on that stream, in the round trip.
Such line as above proposed, owned by the Mer-
camille interests of Saint Loais and conducted to
thsr pd yf1 81 under the
ing and its necessities on these rivers would at once
The principal Merchants and shippers of the Ar
kansas Valley ask for such hne, and guarantees
under the control of parties they know and have con;
idcnce in, unto in giving it their patronage and
Il is proposed to raise One Hundred Thousand Dol
lars Stock in shares of 3lO0 each for the above de-
scrbed line of boats 800 9f which shares have already
been taken-and the list will he open in lew days
Two weeks after the above mount is raised the line
can be put in operation, thus meetins the demand,
Louis will be relieved of the Tar Of paying part of tht
cost of delivering irsights to their customers.
The above steamboat project, is much
needed move in the right direction. There il
not landing on the arkansas and White
Rivers but what is, more or less, directly in
terested in this enterprise and should by sub
scribing stock to this company, make them
selves joint participants; in its advantage
and its profits. Such an interest expressed
all along the Arkansas would, we are assured
give the project an impetus at St. Louis thai
would at once insure the speedy completion
of all the arrangements for putting the new
line of boats in the river at early day. Give
this matter careful thought and early atten-
ton, readers. .tHat euFe rtA