1870 D'Arbonne Steamboats, "Pioneer" and "Economist"

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Captain George W. McCranie founded the 'Weekly Telegraph' in Monroe, Ouachita Parish 
beginning in September 1865. In mid-December, he decided to change the name to the 
"Ouachita Telegraph'. The paper continued publication until and the 1890s or later. 
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'Ouachita Telegraph'
15 January 1870
page 3, column 2 (top)
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River Items

   The steamer Glasgow is an economical craft. We boarded her a few nights ago, at 
great peril to our shins, and politely asked the clerk for an exchange or two. He 
replied that their supply of newspapers was just out! When the May Flower came down 
the clerk handed us a Bulletin he had obtained from the Glasgow.
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   The Camden boats pass down loaded with cotton. The May Flower, on her last trip, was 
completely weatherboarded in forward of the wheel-house with cotton bales.

   The packet business in the Ouachita appears to be fizzling out. The man and the 
boat, for weekly trips to Camden, seem not, as yet, to have found each other. It is 
rumored there will be a resumption of the weekly packet trade to Trenton and Monroe 
in a short time. We sin not, we hope, in saying amen.
   
   There are now as many as four through boats in the Bartholonew trade, which is 
rather overdoing the business, we think.

   The Pioneer and Economist are battling for the supremacy in the D'Arbonne. The 
Carrie Pool is "lord of the creation" in the Saline trade. The Tahlequah is running 
to Floyd, the head of navigation on the Macon. And to bring things to a point, the 
high-headed Monroe and Trenton daily packet, "Rosa F.", has been repaired and is not 
"so good as she never was!"
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Note: According to research by Roy Austin, the Pioneer was at this time owned and 
operated by James Edmunds of Stein's Bluff (on Bayou Cornie near Shiloh). This 
ship sank at Trenton (now West Monroe) in September 1870.



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