The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-04-07
General River News.

The stage of the river at 4 p. m
esterday was lSS, showing fall o
% in twenty-four hours.
The Stacker Lee arrived from
Memphis at 7;i5 p. m. yesterday ant
left an hour later for st. Louis.
The Coal City passed yesterday
morning with coal for New Orleans
She had three model barges loaded
With manufactured steel.
The Island Queen passed down &c
Memphis at 2:45 p. m. yesterday with
)ut landing. She favored large
rowd on the leyee with two or three
selections on her ealiope as she pass
ID. She will be here on the 18th un
Ter the auspices Of the X. NJ, X. c.
The river came to stand and be
gan to fall much quicker than in for
ner high waters of the present stage
Il usually remains stationary for sew
eral DAYS, there being sufficient back
water running into it to hold IT, This
condition is probably due to the fact
hat the Mississippi river contributed
more water than in former high
ltages. and began to fall at the same
ime as the Ohio and had not sup
by of backwater TO add to that in the
bottoms sufficient TO check the fall.
The officers of the McGregDr no
iced a lot of cattle in the water at
)onaldson's point which were left t.
heir fate.
special dispatch to The Bulletin,
Dubuque. Ia, April Capt Beadlc
,eventy-eight years old. died here 10
lay He had been on the river fifty
light years He was one OF tho
prominent pilots on the Missouri riv
r in the palmy days Of steamboatne
IN that stream He put in one Sea
son on the Yukon river.
The promoters of the new town
which is to be laid out on DR.. Cary
tarm near Birds Point which hat
been mentioned in this column. ar
getting things into shape The refusal
Vt the railroads at Birds Point to put
p their tracks to the grade of thu
ieyQa, which was built up TO the
Dads by the county board. leaves
Birds Point without protection abov,
~ feet on the Cairo gauge. The bus
mess houses at Birds Point are all
IN leased ground and the owners viii
1ot sell a lot This condition, Will
he annual menace OF the river, has
aused the people to look for relief
rhere is to be a leyee built back OF
Birds Point, connecting at either enc
With the levee already completed,
which will leave Birds Point outside.
Part of this connecting leyee was
Quilt last fall by French & Lee. ano
he remainder of the route has been
surveyed by the government en-
gineers and will be bllt this sum
ner. jeff Byrnc Is the leading bust
Tess man of the Point and he and
Horace Trasicr, farmer. are backing
he new town Byrnc wants perma.
lent and larger buildings for his bus
ness and does not want TO build ON
eased ground. With the protection
rom overflow by a system Of leyees
his section OF the country is prepar
ng to go forward and a spirit of pro
yress possesses the people. The old
-egime of living from one overflow
o another in temporary shacks has
passed. and il is the purpose of the
jeople to build a permanent city and
ieyelop this rich country. This new
own will not have fictitious name
Ike Henderson's Mound. for instance.
which Is now entirely overilowed. but
viii have name suggestive Of the
'ew conditions. IT will be called En-
erprise Enterprise. Mississippi
.ounty, Mo How does that look?