From 1822 to 1827, the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi, by snags alone, including steam and flat boats, and their cargoes, amounted to $1,362,500. The losses on the same items, from 1827 to 1832, were reduced to $381,000, in consequence of... The West: Its Commerce and Navigation - Page 60by James Hall - 1848 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Hall - History - 1836 - 306 pages
...Pittsburgh and the neighboring towns about 25 steamboats, at Cincinnati and its neighborhood about 25. From 1822 to 1827 the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi, by snags, including steam and flat boats, and their cargoes, amountedto$l, 362,500. Loss in the same items from... | |
| James Hall - Mississippi River Valley - 1838 - 328 pages
...Pittsburgh and the neighboring towns about 25 steamboats, at Cincinnati and its neighborhood about 25. From 1822 to 1827 the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi, by snags, including steam and flat boats, and their cargoes, amounted to $1 ,362,500. Loss in the same items... | |
| Shipping - 1843 - 128 pages
...in felling the overhanging trees, which stood on banks liable to be undermined; and removed 10,000 trees, which must soon have been precipitated into...boats, and their cargoes, amounted to $1,362,500. The loss on the same items, from 1827 to 1832, were reduced to $381,000, in consequence of the beneficial... | |
| Citizens of Cincinnati (Ohio) - Inland navigation - 1844 - 68 pages
...in felling the overhanging trees, which sto'od on banks liable to be undermined; and removed 10,000 trees, which must soon have been precipitated into...including steam and flat boats, and their cargoes, amountedto $1,362,500. The losses on the same items, from 1827 to 1832, were reduced to $381,000, in... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 548 pages
...10,000 trees, which must soon have been precipitated into the current. " 'From 1822 to 1826, the loss oi property on the Ohio and Mississippi by snags alone,...$1,362,500. The losses on the same items from 1827 to 1838 were reduced to $381,000, in consequence of the beneficial action of the snag-boats ; and those... | |
| John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...neighbouring towns, about twenty-five steamboats, at Cincinnati and its neighbourhood, about twenty-five. "From 1822 to 1827, the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi, by snags, including steam and flat boats, and their cargoes, amounted to 1,362,500 dollars. Loss in the same... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...river, in felling the overhanging trees which stood on banks liable to be undermined, and removed 10,000 trees, which must soon have been precipitated into the current. " 'From 1822 to 1826, the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi by snags alone, including steam and flat boats,... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 594 pages
...United States for 1845-6, . . .$121,691,797 Exports of " 1845-6, . . . 113,488,51« Total $235,180,313 From 1822 to 1827 the loss of property on the Ohio...cargoes, amounted to $1,362,500.* The losses on the same from 1827 to 1832 were reduced to $381,000, in consequence of the beneficial service of several boats... | |
| James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Industries - 1847 - 610 pages
...United States for 1845-S, . . .$121,691,797 Exports of " 1845-6, . . . 113,488,516 Total $235,180,313 From 1822 to 1827 the loss of property on the Ohio...cargoes, amounted to $1,362,500.* The losses on the same from 1827 to 1832 were reduced to $381,000, in consequence of the beneficial service of several boats... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - American literature - 1847 - 1376 pages
...demonstrated by the previous action of the government. We find it stated in the Cincinnati report, " that from 1822 to 1827, the loss of property on the Ohio and Mississippi from snags alone, including steam and fiat boats and their cargoes, amounted to $1,362,500; while the... | |
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