VOL. VII.

CHARLES ELLIOTT FERKING
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

WESTERN JOURNAL

ART.

THE

I-COMMERCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

The nature o

Commerce. Its tendency to build up cities and exhaust the country

-evils incident to an extensive commercial system. Inconveniences

and evils of the present commercial system of the United States.

Outlines of a commercial system for the Valley of the Mississippi.

Decline of the commerce of New Orleans. The importance to the

West of building up and sustaining New Orleans as a great commer-

cial city. Deepening the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi,

improvement of the Rapids &c.
By the SENIOR EDITOR.

II.-OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD.

Report of the prelimina-

ry Surveys of the Western division chartered by the State of Illi-

nois.
By E. GEST, Chief Engineer &c.

III.-SOUTHERN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. Account of a route

from Fort Smith on the Arkansas river to Santa Fé, and also of a

route from Donna Anna on the Rio Grande to Fort Smith with a

description of country travelled over.

From the Report of Capt. R. B. MARCY, U. S. A.

IV. SALES OF REAL ESTATE IN ST. LOUIS. By the Senior Editor.

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY.

THE PRAIRIE DOG. Dog towns of the Mora Valley. Similar-

ity of the dwelling places of the prairie dogs to the labyrinths of

Egypt their habits &c. Extracted from a forth coming work entit-

led "Travels in Search of the Elephant or the Wanderings of an

Artist"
By Alfred S. Waugh Esq., St. Louis, Mo.

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