A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States (1848) (14596072369)

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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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chargedtheir caroroes at St. Louis. The navi-gation in the upper and lower rivers isso different, that St. Louis will alwaysbe a depot for all the vast commercebetween the upper and lower country.During the month of May, 1846, therewere twelve steamboat arrivals a day.The total annual commerce of St. Louisis estimated, by persons well acquainted\\-ith its business, at or over $5,000,000.This includes exports and imports. The income of the city in 1846, was$275,000. The taxable property for 1845, was813,607,000 ; for 1846, 814,544,238 ;for 1S47, 816,665,142. The amount of duties paid to the cus-tomhouse of the United States, the cur-rent year, is 850,000. In 1846, 223,500 barrels of flour weremanufactured in the city. The steamboMt arrivals from the up-per Mississippi, for five years, were asfollows : For 1841. 143 steamboats, 108keel-boats ; for 1S42, 195 steamboats,88 keel-boats ; for 1843, 244 steamboats,55 keel-boats; for 1845,647 steamboats,keel-boats not reported; for 1846, 663 n
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574 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. Steamboats, keel-boats not reported, west, southwest, and northwest. SinceThis shows tlie proportionate annual the commencement of the Mexicanincrease of commerce from that region, j war there have been manufactuied at Steamboats in the St. Louis trade in the arsenal gunpowder, munitions, and1S47.—With New Orleans, 46 ; mth other ordnance stores, amounting toCincinnati and Pittsburg, 22 ; with up- eleven hundred and fifty tons, and costper Mississippi, 31; \\-ith Missouri, 21 ; of several millions of dollars ; betweenfrom Illinois river. 16 ; with Nashville, four hundred and five hundred tons ofTennessee, 2 ; with Cairo (at mouth of ^ shells and shot—about seven millions ofthe Ohio), 1 : total, 11^9. ! cartridges for small arms; all which has The number of steamboats engaged furnished employment to about six huu-in the trade of the Missouri river, and dred hands. the number of trips made in each year, St. Louis has a United States sub-from