The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1878-01-09
RIVER NEWS.
SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
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JAMES NJ. WATSON,
SeTrsant Signal Service. u. q A

The Joseph II. Blgley is coming from
Louisville with tow Of coal.
The engineers at New Orleans report
favorably upon the jetties, and recon-.
mend the payment Of the second install.
ment OF $500, 900. Captain Eads il great
success, and the channel between the
jettles is growing deeper daily.
The Iron Mountain and barxes are due
from New Orleans.
Captain VIM. Rhodes, OF St. Paul, 10
In receipt OF private letter from Ill OLD
friend and associate III the transportation
business on the upper Mississippi, but
now prominent citizen OF New Orleans,
in which appear the following illusions
10 a subject which Is attracting the stten-
ton OF the whole country. Says the gen
tleman; "You will understand that un-
til the past September we have had bat
sixteen feet ot water over our bar at the
mouth OF the river. We now have twen-
ty.two feet, and likely to have twenty
five feet by 1878. So ysu can see
only load here, and they
mostly with cotton, as that paid most tor
the room. Since October we have loaded
ships to twenty feet, and this month to
twenty-one and Twenty-Five feet; so that
ships can take full cargoes OF heavy
freight. This is the class that comes
here now. When Captain Eads gets
twenty-five feet q still larger class will
come and take cargoes OF heavy freight
at reduced rates, as large ships OF $4,000
and 100, 600 bushels can load and take
5000 to 10000 bales Of cotton. Our cot.
ton bales are now reduced to two>thirds
the size by the more powerful presses.
We have shipped more grain the
past eleven months than was
shipped previously tor eight years. The
prospect now is we shall ship during the
year 1873 double Of all previous years.
Our facilities for transferring from barge
and elevator to ships are zoe, 900 bushels
per day, at three>Quarters OF cent for
transfer elevators and one cent elevator,
including ten days storage. This In
cludes all the charges tor shipments.
The number of ships has so increased
Der, but last week l counted twenty
steamers and one hundred sailing vessels.
II condition Is sound when It arrives
here, twenty or twenty-five days voy-
age does not deteriorate the grain. Less
unsound grain goes through New Orleans
In proportion than New York. No
trouble Is experienced with well>cured
grain here going through from this point
to Liverpool In good order. The "climate
dodge" Is met by telling you it was made
by Northern interest to prejudice ship.
pers. Deep water has put all these
"dodges" to rest. For the past month
not halt barges enough were available on
the river to bring the grain wanted for
shipments. Ships to-day get l0d. for
sixty pounds, and they take from 10000
to 10000 bushels, and the tonnage il
increasing daily"
THAT COLLISION.
The feager and Ste. Genevieve, the
boats that collided above Cape Girar-
deau on Thursday, arrived In port yes>
terday, both hobbling along on ono en-
CINE, the Ysager having broken q cylln>
der below Memphis. Az usual, no one IL
to blame, but the entire matter will be
laid before the local inspectors for exam.
nation. The damage to the Ste. Gen.
eyieve will amount to $4,000, while $40
will cover oil damage incurred by the
Yeager. No particulars could be learned
Of the accident, for which the fog was
doubtless responsible. The Yeager ran
into the Charles Morgan, below Mem-
phis. about two years ago. knocking q
wheel OF that craft.
From the Cincinnati Commercial We
learn that there are 10000 bbls. potatoes
at New Orleans and they are selling at
81 IS to 81 80 per Dbl. Tho steamer A.
J, White, Of Memphis. 10 to bsoverhauled
and repaired at Mound City. The Mus.
kingum river IL frozen over at jackson.
vile. Navigation 10 closed 1t eitnburg
and st. Louis BY ios, but the Ohio 10
open from Cincinnati southwark and Will
remain 20 for some tine.
The John W. Gaa passsd Cinclnnati
with only . moderate trip Of cotton, co.,
yesterday morning.
The John W. GsSris brought 100 tons
tor rsshipmsnt n various polnss sasb