Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-12
HOW TO STOP
The Floods Which Qsvastats tho
South.
NAIIoNAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Where Il viii Be Held, and Who II viii
Probably Nomiuate-Senator Beck
on Mcrison's Tariff Re.
form Bill.
Special 10 the Reoister.

WAsHINeroS, ID. c., February ll.-Wheel-
ing pspers have failed US for several
days by reason Of the high water, and
il may be that there is the same trouble in
getting news through from Washington to
the West that thsre is in getting Western
nsus in WashiaKtoa u ssemS ifks SatifS
on the fitness Of things to have had m.
tional conventions sitting here at the cap
ital city last week discussing ways and
means for improving the navigation OF
the Mississippi and its tributaries when
one OF those same tribusaries was trying
TO slide City siI feet of water through the
forty foot banks adjacent TO wheeling, but
il will be remem bered that the work OF the
con yention lay in direction Of taking care
Of rivers at high water'as we'll IS low
water stages. Perhaps the damage along
the Upper Ohio will do something to rec.
oncils the people Of the North vest 70 the
levee system of improving
Advocated By Their Southern Breth.
vea.
had long talk with Colonel Alex
Campbell, of Brooke County, W. Va, Who
has been here for some time attending the
River Convention. He is the only man
know who can talk right straight ahead
for week without putting in any lies 10
I'LL up, and this peculiarly makes what
he SAYS OF additional value. he claims
that the levee system Is the only one
which can be relied upon to keep the
lower river within its bounds and ~ the
same time dig its own channel deep
81 aris saf
While il may be open 70 the charge OF
building up private interests, he ho'cs
that no great enterprise on the part OF the
Gov. m ment can be undertaken withbN
helping some private owners more tLas
o. BE- rs. and that in this case the protection
10 private owners would be no more than
rhe incidental protection, which even free
trsders are willing TO admit in laying
tariffs for revenue. As TO present.
inconvfnienc.s occurring periodically
rom the unr strained performances OF the
ioNer river. He gave me many interest
ing instances Saying nothing about the
visits Of the oatlish to the cornields every
,ummer which are very discopraging to a
careful husbsndman, he went on to tell
me # steamers drifting in the logs thro igh
breaks in the leyees and floating OIL into
The woods, and RATS going through the
same openings and landing on hills
Like the ASk On NJ. ABos~t.
and explained TO me how all this might
be averted by a proper system OF levees
under govern pmenL control. until he con-
vinced me that IL was the best method pos
sible, and that il the leVees had been kept
up properly in the time OF Noah II would
have been Gil right, and that an old time
navigator would never have lost his boat
in The mountains
IL no wonder that the people on the
lower river are An Xious tn see some thor
ouch and comprehenslve plan Of improve.
m, nj for the Mississi poi and it's tributaries
rnaugurated, and that their efforts IN this
direction should begin to be heartily Sec
onded by the people OF the Northwest, As
yss done in the recent convention here.
The coal which costs you fOnr cents
busbrl at Wheeling, o"sts the consumers
near New Orleans M average OF twenty i've
cents and has G0.t them a. high rs one dol
lar a bushel fhe Iuel bills on the lsrger
steamboats, oD The lower river trade run
from 81 500 To- s. 300 per week. Old Capt.
Lcsihers, of tie White, once told pas'en'
ger that
livery Time His Roni Escaped
. five dollar bill went through the chin
ney. The boats then burned the ash and
cotton wood cut along the banks, Win pine
knots for racing tuei, and Il was not an un-
[r,uuent sight tn rec half q dozen deck
hsnds vOIkirg with hose 10 keep the hot
embtIs Lbat flew out OF the chimnsys from
..ttirg ire to ihe cargo. Coal has changed
this fOr the b-Lier, but the prices still paid
for tins iuel ,uggest what might he accom-.
plith.d for other products OF West Viz
yina and sGipintug territory with sure,
II and CONTINUOUS water transportation
to ibe Ia {.