The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-04

,lusively.
At Memphis IL is handled in a package
elevator by which drayage, dirt, cotton
hooks and exposure TO weather are all
avoided. Placed on steamers, dry
and clean, it comes to Cairo, and is drawn
from the steamer to the depot on steam
trucks still clean, dry, and in the same
as when shipped, and when
placed in tight cars is not moved again
until unloaded at its destination. The
facilities being now ample for handling
all cotton that may be sent over this route,
we hope to see no more eastern consign-
ments passing in out Of the way directions
- heretofore. 1t IL to the interest of cot
ton shippers south to note the facts men,
toned above. The time saved in transit,
and the preservation of their cotton from
danger is q saving of money to them, in
amounts larger than would at first be
imagined.
DAY before yesterday Capt. Weirick
agent of the NJ. V. T. Co., in this city,
Capt. Townsend of the Crescent City, Capt.
Funk, Capt Cable, Pilot Jacob Cox and
w. X. Mccullough mands visit to Ba-
con Rock and vicinity, and placed large
buoy upon the rock which can be seen at
all hours while there is light enough for
a steamboat to run. From these gentle
men, several of whom are old-time steam
boat men, we gained much information
concerning the chain of rocks that crosses
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
and of which Bacon Rock is only
one link, as it were. Capt. Townsend
then young man, was the first to notice
the appearance OF Bacon rock, clear to the
Missouri shore, and won q suit of clothes
from an older pilot who bet that the
"break was pile of logs, and not rock.
In the year 1910, the steamer White Rose,
Capt. Fields, struck an obstruction and
sunk, near the Kentucky shore, opposite,
and only little below the old levee point
below the st. Charles Hotel. The obstruc-
ton was afterwards ascertained to be a
rock, and took the name Of the White
Rose, from the steamer whose destruction
it had caused. 1t is now
buried in the soil 200 yards away from
the highest water line, with huge forest
trees growing over it. The next change
in the river brought into the channel an
other rock, on which the Grand Tower
surk and gave a name. This was between
1874 and 1850. In 1882 Bacon Rock
made its appearance, and in 1853 the H
D. Bacon, George Vanhoughton, pilot
was lost, either on it or track
heap between Bacon and Crane
Tower rocks. About years ago another
aest of rocks made their appearance fro n
the Kentucky shore, which for q lonl
time we're thought to be the hull of al
old gun or stave boat, and the break @
another rock or nest Of them is showing
near Capt. Falls residence where tn
river 10 making the most rapid encrease
ment. The FIVE rocks are all nearly o.
line with each other, and are of tn
same composition a. Bacon rock, that il
gravel and sand cemented together. TIL
Mississippi is now cutting away Cair
point SO rapidly that Bacon rock will /
, in the Mississippi river again very sool
and should it keep on cutting for one yet
the channel would be flowing past II
levee point, where it was fifteen years ag
q Bacon rock is becoming more dangerol
: to steamers coming out Of the Mississippi
9 river than to any others, because they a
Is compelled to come out close to the poin
u and the space is SO narrow between Il
q point and the rock that it requires gre
r care to make the turn before striking
IS There is about four feet water on the roc
now.