The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830Shaw, Hazel Yearsley
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The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830
Shaw, Hazel Yearsley
Ohio River -- History; Ohio River Valley -- History
Schultz, C, II., 186-187. "Return cargo from New Orleans to St.
Louis or Kaskaskia is $6 a hundred. Same to Falls of Ohio--for
any greater distance an additional charge of nearly 50 cents for
every 100 miles."
Schultz, C., I., 125. "The price of carriage over this distance
(from Philadelphia or Baltimore to Pittsburg) is $5 and $6 a
hundred pounds weight."
[12] Burnet, J., Notes, 400.
[13] Hall, J., The West, 13.
[14] Niles, Weekly Register, I., 71.
[15] Brackenridge, H. M., Journey, 43-44.
[16] Hall, J., The West, 114.
[17] Hildreth, S. P., Memoirs, 274.
[18] Burnet, J., Notes, 49.
[19] Hall, J., The West, 114.
[20] Ibid., 116.
[21] Ibid., 116-117.
[22] Ibid., 13.
[23] Hildreth, S. P., Memoirs, 248.
[24] Ibid., 248-249.
[25] Ibid., 437.
[26] Pope, J., Tour, 18.
[27] Harris, T. M., Tour, Early W. Travels, III., 334, 335.
[28] Schultz, C., Travels, II., 100.
[29] Michaux, F. A., Travels, Early W. Travels, III., 166.
[30] Cuming, F., Tour, Early W. Travels, IV., 116.
[31] Schultz, C., Travels, I., 129.
[32] Ibid., 129-130.
[33] Ibid., 130.
[34] Ibid., 131.
[35] Ibid., 132.
[36] Schultz, C., Travels, I., 132.
[37] Ibid., 132-133.
[38] Latrobe, C. J., Rambler in North America, I., 103-104.
[39] Hildreth, S. P., Memoirs, 159.
[40] Ibid., 160.
[41] Hildreth, S. P., Memoirs, 161.
[42] Schultz, C., Travels, I., 143.
[43] Ellicott, A., Journal, 25.
[44] Harris, F. M., Tour, Early W. Travels, III., 338.
[45] Schultz, C., Travels, I., 126.
[46] Cuming, F., Tour, Early W. Travels, IV., 193.
[47] Schultz, C., Travels, I., 142.
[48] Ibid., I., 190.
_CHAPTER II._
_ARTICLES OF TRAFFIC AND PLACES WITH WHICH TRADE WAS CARRIED ON._
The peace of 1783 left the Ohio and Mississippi country free from
all other conflicts, but the unremitting hostility of the Indians.
The right to navigate the Mississippi the great western waterway
of export and to some extent of import, was denied to the Western
settlers by the Spanish government.
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