. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . s, Chains, etc. May 2,244 June 2,394 July 2,458 August 2,458 October 2,420 November 2,051 December 184 Total 17,201 Add 30 per cent, for night passages,_5,160 Grand Total 22,361 This is equal to one vessel every fifteen minutesthroughout the navigable season of eightmonths; and were the passages made in onecontinuous tow, the line would extend 1,694miles. Of the passages, half were downwardssay 11,180; of this number let us estimatethat one-third, or 3,727, were laden with pro-ducts for the seaboard ; and then a
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . s, Chains, etc. May 2,244 June 2,394 July 2,458 August 2,458 October 2,420 November 2,051 December 184 Total 17,201 Add 30 per cent, for night passages,_5,160 Grand Total 22,361 This is equal to one vessel every fifteen minutesthroughout the navigable season of eightmonths; and were the passages made in onecontinuous tow, the line would extend 1,694miles. Of the passages, half were downwardssay 11,180; of this number let us estimatethat one-third, or 3,727, were laden with pro-ducts for the seaboard ; and then add the regu-lar twenty per cent increase, year by year,and it becomes very palpable that the canal inquestion can not he constructed too soon. Ina tew years the West will need every outletthat can be opened for her, and it is for the in-terests of Buffalo to see that her harbor is notso gorged with Western stuffs in the comingtime as to paralyze all efforts to discharge it,and thus perhaps divert a great part of thecarrying trade of the Mississippi river.—De-troit Free T. F. RANDOLPH Sc BRO. nlrMEufacturers, 67 West Sisrtli , O. ,3mp CUMBERLAND COUNTYOIL. , NEAE The Great Crocus Well, WITH Productive Wells allaround them. FOR SALE BY T. WRICHTSON, 167 Walnut Street, CINCUTXATI. J O H i BLAKELEY, 1 ;■ ALLE IN WOC L & COTTON WASTE, 1 OR RAI1ROAD 4 STEAMBOAT USB, STEAM PACKING, ;o. 2S3 Cbnrch Street, PHILADELPHIA THE RAILROAD RECORD. 598 G. W. FULTON, Civil Engineer) UWTBACTOR AND BUILDEE OF WIRE SUSPENSION BRIDGES Covington, Ky, Refer to JNO. A. ROEBLING, Esq.,Cheif Engineer Cin. & Gov. aud Niagara Susp. Bridges. and Lexington,J , LOUISVILLB, V ■ 24, l*1S. ) TO RAILROAD CONTRACTORS. Louisville, CincinnatiR R Office, December SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this office, onthe 31st of January. If67, for the Graduation and Mafl-nry of over seventy (70) miles {in mile sections) of theCincinnati hranch ol this railroad. The work is
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