Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

Der of the passengers on the boat purchased
all they could eat of them at cent apiece.
Below this point the boat stopped fire.
quently on both sides of the river to load
fruit, but her principal stop was at
Brush Creek landing, where in a few
.''Rome beauty" an apple Of exquisite
flavor and beautiful shape, are shipped to
the markets east and west on the river lines.
After touching at Point Pleasant, the
birth place of the lamented General u. s.
Grant, and balting for a moment at Colum-
bia and Dayton, KY, the big steamer, now
loaded far above her side rails, swung across
toward the Ohio shore and made fast to the
big wharf boat at Cincinnati, after trip of
500 miles down the Ohio. After taking on
coal and discharging the great treasures of
garden, orchard and field that were stacked
about her decks, she again cut loose and be-
gan her trip up river, to gather another
cargo of fruit for Pittsburg markets.
DOWN THE RIVER.
As she left her moorings The DISPATCH
representative stepped aboard the Fleet
wood, one of the large steamers plying be-
tween Cincinnati and Louisville, Just as the
signal bell for starting on tie downward
trip sounded.
The planks were drawn on board and in a
two steamers, one on its way up the other
down the river, Joined far up over the center
of the stream and trailed out, as the two got
we'll under way, like great ribbon holding
them together.
Night fell with the customary monotony
on the boat, and nothing broke the quiet
spell until at 9 o'clock she began to reach
the fruit growing country on the Indiana
side, and here the hills lowered high above
the shore, only broken by an occasional
Gut" rock or a bare spot where landslide
had cleared the timber out Through the
occasional openings on the densely wooded
hills whenever the mate swung the huge
electric light upon the shore, one
might easily discern the long wooden in
clines with their cable and car attachment
which are used by the fruit growers of this
section to bring their products down to the
boats. At Otto, Ind, the largest consign-
ment of peaches were taken aboard, and
while loading this lot the picture presented
in the glare of the bright light was both
BEAUTIFUL AND ANIMATED,
the negro roustabouts trotted rapidly to and
fro, their shining black skins in strong con-
trast with the snowy crates and baskets they
were handling, every leaf upon every tree
in range of the powerful light was brought
out strongly against the black background
of night beyond. While the tiny cars ran
swiftly up and down the incline from a
point far up above the tree tops on the sum-
NIT of the hill, where a little yellow light
blinked out at the night.
At Housten's Land and dozen other
points on both the Indiana and Kentucky
shores for distance of 150 miles the boat
stopped throughout the night and following
day loading peaches. pears. apples, toma-
toes. and, in fact, everything in the line OF
fruit, vegetables or general produce for the
markets OF st. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg,
or the nearer city OF Louisville.
Throughout the summer and fall these
boats are continually loaded to the rail
lines" with every conceivable product that
the rich soil of these beautifully situated
"bottom lands" will bring forth, and no
one without a personal inspection can
realize the vast amount of stuff handled, nor
the great amount of money and labor in
volved in the fruit trade of the Ohio river.
JUNG JAEGER.