The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-28

afternoon. She discharged 100 bales OF cot
ton, $50 sacks of cotton seed and AGO pack
ages OF sundries. She also added about 90
tons Of way freight Her officers report 8
feet OF water between Cairo and St. Louis.
The following changes have been made In
beacon lights on the Mississippi river be-
tween Memphis and Arkansas City by the
United States lighthouse tender, Lieut. Il.
NJ. Hughes, Inspector Opposite Montezuma
towhead, new light established; Montezuma,
moved down 200 yards; Frars Point, moved
up 200 yards foot of Old Town bend, discon-
unued; Towhead Island Sixty-eight, new
light established; head of Island Sixty
eight, discontinued; bend Of Island Sixty
eight, moved down $50 yards; Concordia,
moved up 100 yards; Scrub Grass, moved up
2cO yards Caulk's Point moved down 500
yards Eulaw, moved up three-quarters OF
mile.
The following report OF the river from st.
Louis TO Cairo, given by the Anchor line
pilots, will interest steamboatmen: River
much improved, not less than five feet of
water from ST Louis TO Cairo. Perry's tow
head and Liberty island are the shoalest
places Salt Point Is opposite Fort Chartres,
and the new channel there is down the Mis-.
souri, side. There will be no more heard of
Diekey's field and Fort Charities, as the chan
mel docs not touch the Illinois shore from
Pcnitentiary Point TO Mudd's Point, dis.
lance Of ten miles. There is six feet in the
Salt Point channel, and the pilots of the My
Choice deserve the thanks OF the river fra
ternity Tor the complete work accomplished
In locating buoys so nicely they extending
over a mile and half of river They put
barrel buoy on the end of the govern
ment dikc, where q gap exists, through
which the new channel approaches
the Missouri shore, also buoy in the big
rock which extends ont from the shore
Kinney Point was also buoyed, so that up.
stream boats will not dislodge them after
night The wreck of the John Gilbert is
tearing the channel all to pieces at Liberty,
making very shoal water there, where II
heretofore has been deep. The Arkansas
City could not get into Commerce this trip,
as there was but ~ feet into the landing.
There is probability of the channel chang
ing ut the wreck of the Grand Tower, indi.
cations being that it will go out below her, a
contamination devoutly wished by pilots.
Capt John Barrett, of Cincinnati, one of
the oldest sicambcntmen on the lower Ohio
and Mississippi rivers, was In the city yes
to-day arranging with the representatives OF
the estate of the late James II, Eads for the
delivery OF large quantity of stone at the
jetties ut New Orleans, says the st. Louis
Globe Democrat Of the sd inst Capt. Barrett
Is one Of the most genial old gentlemen that
the once fourshing river business ever
brought into prominence. lie has seen the
trade almost from its infancy until now, rs
he says, II has almost reached the point
when Il is all done by towboats. That is,
the palatal river packet is thing OF the
past, and can never be resurrected. "Thcre
will, however" he says, always or for years
be AN Anchor line on the Mississippi, as the
country contiguous 10 IL does not seem TO
have any fascination for railroad corpora
tons Speaking Of the trouble among the
upper Ohio river pilots, Capt. Barrett said lac
was hardly prepared To venture an opinion.
IL was new move for the pilots, and
as they knew the boats could not be run
without them the organization would likely
spread to other parts Of the Ohio and TO the
Mississippi. Heretofore the only association
among the pilots has been the one having
headquarters in st. Louis, n purely bcnclici-
AIRY organization. The new association is
confined ut present 10 the upper Ohio river,
and concerns mainly the coal towing bust
ness. Capt Barrett did not think IL could
have much effect now, ns the majority OF
the pilots have contracts some time ahead.
He believed however, that Il would better
the condition OF the pilots IN the future,
though II was not likely they will get all
they want