The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-06
Put an End to
Stomach Ills
Sold Everywhere. In boxes i9c. ard $50
In boxes iac. and $50
Sold Everywhere.

great difficulty, and he had known
instances where it had cost $40 per
ton to unload freight because of the
delay on account Of getting heavy
freight up a steep bank.
The purpose of the new company
| Is to build steel barges and side wheel
! boats that will be able to make regu-
lar and fast time at all stages OF the
river; to have docks or floating pom
toons, or conveyors. with necessary
electric apparatus to oad and unload
| barges with despatch; TO have ware.
houses easy of approach from land
and water, and introduce every ap-
| pliance that may contribute TO the
economic handling of freight. Steel
cargo barges to carry 4000 tons of
| freight each, and side wheel steamers
| are to be built, lying low in the water
with small wheels running rapidly.
The plan is to begin next year to
| build the terminals at the important
points where regular terminals will
:
be established Cairo being among the
most important, as much freight was
expected to be concentrated here for
distribution. It IL proposed also to
build line OF fast passenger boats
that will make from % to % miles
per hour-as fine as now traverse the
ocean with every convenience for
passengers, and to run regularly be-
tween important points.
As to the traffic in sight for this
proposed new line Mr.. Mathews said
there was from foUr to five million
ltons yearly promised now; it was pro.
posed to handle the tobacco from the
! Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
the coal and grain from Southern Hi
nois, the flour and grain from the
upper Mississippi There was no
question of getting the business if
facilities were provided for hand
| ling it.
Mr. Mathews told OF the manner of
handling freight on the rivers of
Europe, the Rhine, the Danube, and
also on the Amazon in Brazil; show
ing that the construction of boats and
barges for low water traffic. and of
up-to-date facilities for handling
freight at terminals were the condi-
tiOns that had made traffic successful
and swelIed it to immense volume.
We have the water said Mr.. Mathews.
we have the business waiting for us
and all we need Is the equipment.
Now when new railroad is proposed
for town, the people gather with en-
thusiasm to greet it and to grant it
liberal concessions and donations. We
do not want any donations, but only
ask that the people at whose doors
we expect to make important JIM
provements and whose towns we ex-
pect to benefit greatly in a CONNER
cial way, shall aid lis by taking stock
in the enterprise which will yield
them handsome dividends from the
start About this there can he no
doubt.
Mr.. Sweeney devoted himself brief
ly to the financial end of the propo.
sition. He said it was proposed to
interest every citizen in the communi.
ties where terminals are to be estab.
lished, because it was an enterprise
which concerned ali. Cairo was so
situated in relation to this proposed
boat line. that manv cities would give
two million dollars to exchange places
with her The railroads had done all
they could, or all they were going to
do and If Cairo was to grow it would
have to look to the revival of river
business 70 bring It about And
there's no use talking about four.
teen foot channel. nor of nine foot
channel said Mr.. Sweeney. You're
not going to get u until you show
that you need it; we have got to
make the best of what we have toIav
and if we show that we have got tho
business. the government will do it's
best, We do not ask any donations
although what We offer to do for
CAIRO will do more to make her
great city than any five railroads
could do, all we want is that they
shall help along business enter
prise OF incalculable benefit to their
city and which will yield them from
10 to 20 per cent. the first year.
John S. Asthorpe. president of the
Board of Trade spoke of some of the
Old lines which had failed or gone
out of business. He agreed that moth.
ing could be done to aid Cairo so
much as the revival Of river bust.
ness; Cairo's future depended upon
the rivers. the railroads we're not
able to handle the business Of the
country. and had extended their lines
about as much as they could such