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THE

PB. Youke.

WESTERN JOURNAL,

OF

AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES, MECHANIC ARTS,
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, COMMERCE,

AND

GENERAL LITERATURE.

Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are the basis of Civilization.

M. TARVER & T. F. RISK,

EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.

MORITZ NIEDNER, Publisher.

VOL. V.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

ST. LOUIS:

PRINTED BY MORITZ NIEDNER-OFFICE, NORTHWEST CORNER
OF CHESNUT AND THIRD STREETS.

1851.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUN 30 1915

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

451

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Africa, its products and commerce, 171|
Alton and Sangammon Railroad, its pro-
gress, 64.

Anhydrous Steam-Prevention of Boiler
Explosions, 244.

Appleton's Mechanics' Magazine, 210.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, business
on for the month of Sept. 1850, 66.
Bank of the State of Missouri; annual
statement for the year 1850, 201.
Boats, see Steamboats and Vessels.

Canadian River, a day's travel on. 344.
Cannelton Cotton Mills, employment of
eastern operatives, 48.

Cedar Pyramid in St. Charles County,
Mo., 209.

Ciceronian Magazine, 211.
Cincinnati, its imports, 50; exports, 52;
value of specific articles, 54; number
& tonage of boats built during 5 years,
54; destination of specific articles, 55;
comparative statement of steam boat
arrivals for three years; manufactures
of cotton, iron &c., amount invested
and value of products, 57. -
Cholera in St. Louis in 1849 & 1850, 264
Cities of the United States, the causes

and effects of their growth, 283.
Clark R. C. & Co., White Lead and Oil
Factory, 201.

received from the Missouri and Mis-
sissippi rivers respectively each month
in the yer 1850, p. 257. Monthly ar-
rivals of steamboats at St. Louis from
the respective rivers for four years,
258. Monthly arrival of steamboats
&c., their tonage; wharfage, harbor
fees, &c., for two years, 259.
Commerce of Weston, Mo. Exports for
the year 1850, arrival of steamboats
for 6 years, 326.

Commerce of the United States. Value
of the domestic exports of the United
States for the year ending 30th June,
1850, 328.

Commerce of San Francisco, amount of
Gold shipped from Sept. 1st, 1849, to
Dec. 13, 1850. Tonnage arrived-Im-
portations, &c., 329.

Commerce of Canada. Imports into the

port of Buffalo for the year 1850, 330.
Cotton, quantity received at and export-
ed from New Orleans for 10 years,
121-2. Monthly prices at New Or-
leans for the year ending 31 Aug. 1850,
125. Annual statement, 125. Growth
from 1823 to 1850, 125. Annual con-
sumption in the United States since
1826, 126. Consumption in the dif-
ferent States, 126. / State of manufac-
ture in the East, South, and West, 73.
Cotton Trade from 1825 to 1850, with
tabular statements of production, con-
sumption, stoks, prices, Exports to &
consumption in different countries,233.

Education, Female, 206.
Europe, general view of the different
States-military and marine forces-
revenues and public debts, population,
&c., 308.)

Coins and Bank notes, 77.
Commerce of Cincinnati, 54.
Commerce of the South West, 72.
Commerce of New Orleans, receipts and
estimated value of the principal arti-
eles from the interior for the year
ending 3d Aug. 1850, 121-2; exports
to different countries for same period,
123; exports of cotton and tobacco to
different markets for 10 years, 123;
exports of sugar, molasses, flour, pork,
&c. &c., for the year ending 31st Aug.
1850, 124; monthly arrival of ships &c.
for two years, 124; comparative prices Fair, the great industrial exhibition in
of leading articles of produce on the London, description of the building,
1st of each month for 2 years, 124-5;
annual cotton statement of crop, 125;
growth and consumption, 125-6; quan-
tity of cotton consumed by home manu-
facturers, 126.

European and American Railroad, 65.
Exports. See commerce of Cincinnati,
New Orleans, United States, &c.

69. Regulations, &c., 105.
Female Education, 206.

Flax Seed. Culture of flax for seed,
quantity of flax seed consumed in St.
Louis-quantity consumed in the U.
States-quantity imported-prices of
flax seed aud oil &c., 213, 265.
Flour, receipts and prices, at New Or-
leans, 124. Quantity received and pri-
ces at St. Louis, 194. Quantity manu,
factured in St. Louis, 262.

Commerce of Africa, 171.
Commerce of St. Louis. Quantity re-
ceived, and prices, of tobacco, hemp,
lead, wheat, flour, corn, barley, rye,
eastor beans, flax seed, hay, potatoes,
whiskey, pork, lard, sugar and molas-
ses during the year 1850, p. 192 to 197; Fruit, mode of preserving, 63.
imports into St. Louis by the Rivers

for 5 years, 198-9; foreign imports in- Gas Light. Paine's light-its value com.
to St. Louis; description of merchan-
dize; whence imported &c. for the
year 1850, 200. Number of vessels
and amount of tonage enrolled for the
year 1850, 200. Quantity of wheat

pared with coal, 35.

Geological Survey, by E. A. Prout, M.
D., 210.

German Society in St. Louis. Act incor-
porating, 344.

Grape Culture in Iowa, 62.

Grape Culture in Illinois, 130.
Grapes, Native; culture of, 60.
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, 63.
Hemp; Culture and preparation for
ket, 185, 220,

Popular Tribune, 211.

Population of Missouri, 322.
Postal Statistics of U. S., 194.

Posts, history of the establishment of
mar-Precious Metals, bank notes and coins
posts in all countries, 295.
&c., 20, 77.
Preserving fruit, 63.

Hemp Growing in Iowa, 330.
Howard County, Mo., Statistics, 327.
Dllinoistown, its future growth, 129.
Imports: See title Commerce &c.
Indianopolis and Bellefontaine Railroad,

67.

Individuality & associated Character, 157
Industrial Exhibition, 105.
Interest on Money, 288.

Railroads, review of the bills before
Congress to grant lands in aid of the
Pacific and other railways, 37. Eu-
ropean and American railroad, 65.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, 66. In-
dianopolis and Bellefontaine railroad,
67. Mississippi and Atlantic railroad,
129 and 332. St. Charles and Iowa,
199. New method of ascending steep
grades, 268. Ohio and Mississippi, 332.
Central Railroad of Illinois, 332.
Reading and Study, by E. Stagg, 273.
Libraries; history of ancient libraries-Red River of the North and its valley,

Institute of Art and Invention, 202.
Iron trade of the United States, 143.

Labor saving Machinery, its influence on
the social condition 1.

statistics of modern libraries in Eu-
rope and the United States, 314.
Love, 280.

Lumbertrade of St. Louis, 260.
Madison and Indianopolis Railroad, re-
ceipts on, 66.

Manufactures of Cincinnati, 57.
Manufactures in St. Louis, 127, 201;
statistical table of the productive in-
dustry of St. Louis as shown by the
U. S. Census of the year 1850, 261.
Maramec River, improvement of its navi-
gation, 192.

176.

Route to Santa Fe, 178.

San Francisco, its commerce, 329.
Santa Fe, survey of route by G. C. Seb-
ley, 178.

Shannon James, President of the Me.
University-inaugural address, 162.
Sign Language of the Prairie Indians, 176
Southern and Western commerce, 72.
Spirit culture, by H. Cobb, Esq., 132.
Spirit Power, by H. Cobb, Esq., 203.
Starch from Indian corn, 69.
Sterling's Patent wrought iron alloy. 101.

Memoir of the Physics of the Mississip-Steam Boats and Vessels, number and

pi river, 6.

Memorial of the Evansville Convention,

143.

Metals; precious, coins and bank notes,

77.

Mississippi River, its physics, 6.
Missouri, its population in 1848 and 1850
by counties, 322.

Money Crisis, means to prevent, 165.
Mortgages on Boats and Vessels-Act of
Congress, 58.

Moulder's Iron Foundry Association near
Cincinnati, 97.

Muegge C., Oil Cloth Factory, 201.
New Orleans: commercial statistics of
N. O. for the year 1850, 121.
Nicaragua Canal, description of the
route, 16.

tonage of boats built and arrivals at
Cincinnati, 54, 56. Monthly arrival
of boats and vessels at New Orleans
for two years, 124. Monthly arrivals
and tonage of steamboats, &c. at St.
Louis in 1849 and 50, 258-9. Num-
ber of arrivals at Weston, Mo., for 5
years, 326.

St. Louis, its manufactures and produc-
tive industry, 261. Population, 324.
See commerce, manufacturés, &c.
St. Charles and Iowa Railroad, 199.
Swamp Lands, quantity in the respective
States, 94.

128. See commercial statistics of New
Sugar, new invention for manufacturing,
Orleans, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
Tanning, improvement in, 68.

Oil, Linseed, quantity manufactured, im- Vegetable Economy, 182.

nington, Vt., 157.

ported and consumed in St. Louis, 216. Ware, a new and beautiful article, Ben-
Oil Cloth Factory in St. Louis, 201.
Osage Orange, its culture for hedges, 189.
Our Republic: By Mrs. Mary R. Hall,

270.

Pile Driver, model by F. Lear, 269.
Plank Roads, general law of incorpora-
tion in Mo., 335.
Platte county, statistics, 325.

Western Africa, its products and com-
merce, 171.

Western Interests,"143.

Weston Mo., its commerce, 326.
White Lead, manufacture in St. Louis,
201.

Wheat, arrivals at St. Louis, 194, 257.
See commerce &c.

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