Excerpt from The Commerce and Navigation of the Valley of the Mississippi, and Also That Appertaining to the City of St. Louis: Considered, With Reference to the Improvement, by the General Government, of the Mississippi River and Its Principal Tributaries In addition to the steamboats, there are estimated to be employed on the same rivers, about keel and flat boats. For the year 1844 the enrolled and licensed steamboat tonnage of the western rivers was reported by the Secretary of the Treasury at which, at an average of 210 tons* for each boat, gives 686 steamboats for that year. By a subsequent report from the same source, the tonnage had ia creased by the last of June, 1845, to making the number of boats 789. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.