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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN ILL. HIST. SURVEY
HISTORY
OF
SAINT LOUIS CITY
AND
COUNTY,
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIODS TO THE PRESENT DAY :
INCLUDING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
BY
J. THOMAS SCHARF,
AUTHOR OF "CHRONICLES OF BALTIMORE;" "HISTORY OF MARYLAND;" "HISTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY AND COUNTY ;" MEMBER OF THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENN- SYLVANIA; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF NEW YORK, WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA; OF THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHIICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO; OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, ETC., ETC.
IN TWO VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED.
VOL. II.
PHILADELPHIA : LOUIS H. EVERTS & CO. 1883.
Copyright, 1883, by LOUIS H. EVERTS & Co.
PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA.
Schlh
SURVEY Vr
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
CHAPTER XXV.
PAGE
St. Louis as a Centre of Trade.
989
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Mississippi River and its Tributaries.
1037
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Navigation on the Mississippi River
1087
CHAPTER XXVIII.
River Comincrec of St. Louis.
1123
CHAPTER XXIX.
Railroads
1139
CHAPTER XXX.
Trade. Commerce, and Manufactures 1213
CHAPTER XXXI.
Commercial Exchanges.
1340
CHAPTER XXXII.
Banks, and other Financial Institutions, and Bankers ... 1367
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Insurance-Telegraph-Postal Service-Gas-Hotels ... 1414
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Bench and Bar
1449
County of St. Louis.
1870
ILLUSTRATIONS OF VOLUME II.
PAGE
PAGE
Alkire, Josiah
.facing 1239
Byrne, John, Jr facing 1036
American Baptist Publication Society 1673
Cahokia in 1840. 1072
Bailey, G. W.
.facing 1506
Carondelet, Plat of .. .facing 1864
Barclay, Shepard
1510
Carondelet in 1840 1865
Barnes, Robert A.
1388
Castello, Charles. .facing 1888
Barnett, George I 1435
Chamber of Commerce .: 1359
Barr, William, Dry-Goods Company. 1296 Charless, Joseph facing 1390
Barret, R. A.
facing 1508
Christy, A.
66
1070
Bates, Edward
1464
Clark, W. G.
1326
Belcher Sugar Refinery
1243
Comstock, T. Gris
1561
Bent, Joseph K. facing 1366
County Court-House
1876
Billon, F. L.
1593
Cummings, J. K
facing 1282
Bissell, Daniel.
facing 1856
Custom-House and Post-Office
1437
Black, William S., Residence of.
1880
Davis, Samuel C. & Co
1297
Blewett, B. T.
Day, F. 0.
facing 1298
Bofinger, J. N.
66 1120
Dodd, Brown & Co.
1302
Bogy, L. V
1492
Dorriss, G. P
facing 1862
Boyd, Rev. W. W
.facing 1678
Dousman, HI. L
66 1620
Branch, J. W.
1270
Dozier, James
1236
Brookmire, J. H
1240
Dyer, D. P
1505
Brown, A. D
1318
Eads, J. B
1051
Brown, J. C.
66
1178
Easton, A. R. facing 1456
1454.
Buck, M. M
1274
Easton, Rufus
CHAPTER
XXXV.
PAGE
The Medical Profession.
1515
Culture and Literary Growth in St. Louis.
1587
Art and Artists
1617
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Music and Musicians
1628
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Religious Denominations
1635
CHAPTER XL.
Religious, Benevolent, Social, Secret, and other Organi-
zations.
1752
CHAPTER XLI.
Prominent Events-Mobs and Riots-Duels-Military
-The Towns of Carondelet, Herculaneum, and East
St. Louis
1820
CHAPTER XLII.
1878
iv
ILLUSTRATIONS OF VOLUME II.
PAGE
Famous Shoe and Clothing Company. 1317
Farrar, B. G.
1519
Moses, S. Gratz.
1531
First Baptist Church Building in Missouri. 1670
Nicholson, David.
1242
First Presbyterian Church.
1703
Nidelet, J. C.
1540
Paramore. J. W.
1198
Gale, D. B. "
1238
Garrison, D. R
1170
Gast, August
1335
Plant, George P
1232
German Protestant Orphans' Home .. 1916
Pope, Charles A
1530
Geyer, Henry S
1462
Post, Rev. T. M.
1745
Good Samaritan Hospital.
1565
Powell, R. W
facing 1419
Goodell, Rev. C. L.
facing 1746
Pratt, Thomas,
1439
Gould, D. B.
1616
Primm, Wilson
1488
Green, Charles
1816
Green, William W. 66
1104
Robertson, Right Rev. C. F.
66
1717
Hackemeier, Franz. 1917
Haggerty, W. H.
facing 1306
Harrison, Edwin
1266
Harrison, James.
1264
Hill, B. A.
Hodgen, John T.
1534
Humphrey, F. W. & Co.
1307
Jaccard, D. C.
.facing 1320
Jaccard, E., Jewelry Company.
1319
Jackson, John
facing 1227
James, Samuel.
1889
January, D. A.
1351
Johnson, John B
1532
Kennard, J.
facing 1304
Kenrick, Archbishop
1644
Kingsland, Philip.
facing 1262
Kirkwood Seminary, View of
1908
Kline, Lewis E
1673
Lackland, R. J.
1402
Larimore, J. W
1230
Larimore, N. G.
1229
Leeds, E. N 66
1418
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
1248
Lindell Hotel.
1444
Lionberger, John R. facing 1086
Lucas, J. B. C
1408
Lucas, James H.
1419
Lucas, James H., Residence of
1412
Walsh, Julius. 1208
Watson, James S. 1394
Wear, J. H., Boogher & Co
1300
McKendree, Bishop 1685
McPheeters, W. M facing 1528
Merrell, J. S. " 1288
Meyer, C. F. G
facing
1290
Parsons. Charles.
1398
Peters, Joseph. 1328
Rayburn, French
facing 1260
Rubelmann, George A
1280
Ryan, P. J., Right Rev
1645
Samuel, E. M. facing 1396
66
Schnaider, Joseph. 1333
Scholten, John
1334
Schotten, William
1246
Schulenburg, R.
1324
Scruggs, R. M
1299
Scudder, John A.
1118
Second Baptist Church.
1677
Section of Pier St. Louis Bridge
1077
Senter, W. M facing 1362
Shapleigh, A. F
1278
Simmons Hardware Company
1276
Sire, Joseph A. facing 1250
1523
Southern Hotel.
1448
Stevens, Charles W
1529
St. Louis Bridge .. facing 1074
St. Louis Cotton Exchange.
1362
St. Louis Grain Elevator ..
1227
Swon, J. C facing 1102
Talmage, A. A
1166
Vallé, Jules
66
1268
Van Studdiford, Henry .
1525
Walker, G. S
1562
Walsh, Edward
1162
Marquette on the Mississippi River. 1636
Martin, Edward .. facing 1307
Westermann, H 1285
Wolff, M. A facing 1037
Forsyth, Robert .. facing 1294
PAGE
Smith, E. B
1502
HISTORY
OF THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAINT LOUIS.
CHAPTER XXV.
ST. LOUIS AS A CENTRE OF TRADE.
ST. LOUIS being located in the heart of the Missis- sippi valley, in which are produced immense supplies of breadstuffs, meats, fruits, and vegetables, accessible by fifteen thousand miles of navigable rivers, with her grand network of railroads penetrating all portions of this vast valley, furnishing quick and cheap transpor- tation for all the products of the soil, it must be ap- parent that at no other place in the world where labor is remunerative can staple provisions of the same quality be furnished cheaper than at St. Louis.
Next to provisions in the cost of family expenses is that of house-rent, or, differently stated, the expense of living in one's own house. The house represents capital, and it costs the owner as much to live in it as it does the lessee, in either case the net rental being measured by the net interest the money would produce.
In furnishing cheap, comfortable, and healthy houses St. Louis offers rare inducements. There was a time when this was not the case, and rival cities offering greater inducements in this regard were largely bene- fited thereby. When the heavy business was transacted chiefly on the Levee and Main Street, the choice resi- dence property was drawn within narrow bounds and held at high prices; and before sewerage and drainage had transformed vast acres into choice building sites, before railroad transportation, steam and horse, had equalized valucs at remote points from business cen- tres by furnishing cheap conveyance to and from all points within the city limits, cheap homes were not easily obtained in St. Louis. But a new and brighter era has dawned upon her. Cheap homes can now be furnished within easy access of business, shop, and foundry, on finished streets, with gas and water, on or convenient to street cars. Building lots thus situated
63
can be bought and comfortable dwellings erected thereon cheaper in St. Louis than in any city in the United States having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand.
To this fact more than any other may be attributed the rapid growth of St. Louis during the last few years, and it is also the best guarantee of her future pros- perity. Cheap homes are the want of the million ; they not only reduce the expenses of living, but the people become owners of their own homesteads, and once having an interest in the soil their local and business interests become more closely identified with the city's welfare, making her population more per- manent and at the same time contributing to her revenue.
Persons of limited means, mechanics and laborers of industrious and saving habits, can by small monthly or quarterly payments in a comparatively short period be- come owners of their own homes without waiting to provide all the money before purchasing. The making of debts is not gencrally to be commended ; but to a moderate extent in the purchase of a home, where full consideration is received, they are not only com- mendable but tend to stimulate energy, and the money thus paid is better secured against loss than if invested in any other manner. In addressing the Social Science Association of Philadelphia, Mr. Cochran truthfully said,-
" People who own the soil naturally feel that they have a greater interest in the community, in its wel- fare, peace, and good order, and they are fixed more permanently to it as a place of abode ; and the laborer or mechanic who is working to secure or pay for a home is inspired with more ambition than one whose abode is in tenement-houses, which can have no attrac- tion to any man or his family. The system of separate dwelling-houses for every family is in itself promotive of greater morality and comfort, but the opportunity
989
990
HISTORY OF SAINT LOUIS.
of poor men to secure the ownership is an honorable incentive to industry and frugality."
The means of locomotion within the city, the ac- commodations for visitors, the capital of banks, and
the transportation facilities other than rail and river, as collected in 1882 for the board of equalization, present the St. Louis of to-day as being in the follow- ing condition :
STREET RAILWAYS.
Number of Horses.
Value per Head.
Number of Mules.
Value per Head.
Miles of Track.
· Value per Mile.
Number of Cars.
Total Value of Cars.
Other Personal
Property.
Value of Real
Estate.
Total Value.
Baden and St. Louis.
17
$35
31
$1500
8
$1,200
$140
.........
$6,820
Benton and Bellefontaine.
106
50
26
$30
1000
42
8,800
750
$22,760
48,720
Cass Avenue
193
45
. .
...
3 62-100
2500
30
9,000
6720
32,850
83,810
Citizens', Fair Grounds and Suburban.
251
45
75
50
12
2500
56
19,200
2980
22,800
94,520
Lindell
361
45
40
50
10 25-66
3500
70
17,900
2600
79,440
159,430
Missouri.
277
45
18
50
84
3500
56
19,600
3000
57,240
122,960
Mound City
65
45
28
50
6
2500
22
2,750
800
22,880
People's
238
45
12
50
8
3500
30
10,500
9300
59,110
St. Louis
268
45
174
60
143
3000
66
16,700
4460
38,100
125,860
South St. Louis.
65
40
10
45
1800
2000
...
.......
......
.......
2,000
Tower Grove and Lafayette.
53
45
40
50
3 1-5
2500
20
5,000
270
7,390
25,050
Union ...
203
45
7
50
8
3500
24
7,200
2940
16,030
63,660
Union Depot.
157
45
209
50
10
2500
68
14,600
4360
41,390
75,870
HOTELS.
Name.
Proprietors.
Assessed Value of Personal Property.
Atlantic ...
F. F. Burt ..
$1,670
Barnum's ..
.L. A. Pratt ..
110,200
Beaumont.
.Hallie D. Pittman
1,890
City
.. George Spilling ..
11,600
Hotel Barnum ...
. Mrs. M. L. Barnum.
16,110
Tenth Ward Savings
11,090
46,590
Belvedere.
.. Shickle, Harrison & Co
17,000
Union Savings
10,570
128,130
Hotel Moser.
Leo Moser.
1,730
Hurst's
James H. Hurst
3,220
Ives House
.James O. Ives
16,800
Koetter's
G. Koetter
2,390
St. Louis National
13,710
569,140
Total.
$739,650
$10,040,550
EXPRESS COMPANIES, LIVERY-STABLES, ETC.
Name.
Number of
per
of
Total Value of
Adams Express Co.
36
$100
18
$3,600
American Express Co
42
100
23
2,950
United States Express Co ..
35
50
17
1,700
St. Louis Transfer Co ..
206
75
99
14,750
Hazard Coal Co
40
55
10
500
Schuremann Bros. & Co
84
60
55
2,235
Eau Claire Lumber Co ..
59
50
30
750
Mount Cabanné Milk Co
24
50
11
550
St. Louis Street Sprinkling Co.
28
60
15
1,400
Arnot, Jessc.
55
40
49
5,300
Bensick, John C.
20
40
10
2,000
Bohle, Louis C ..
40
40
32
5,000
Brockmann, B.
35
65
16
2.525
Sherrick, L. P.
20
40
15
1,500
Cullen & Kelly.
22
100
15
6,000
Clement, N. S.
24
50
16
2,000
Comfort, C. D. & Co
21
100
14
1,120
Crum, C. N
22
75
14
2,250
Gauger, Jacob.
25
100
10
4,000
fleitz, Christ
20
50
7
210
Herman, Fred.
60
100
25
2,500
..
$230,760
BANKS.
Name.
Value of Real Estate.
Total Value of
Assessment.
Bank of Commerce.
$185,890
$1,136,150
Boatmen's Savings
67,940
2,174,530
Bremen Savings
1,600
76,050
Citizen's Savings.
23,400
139,930
Commercial
310,000
Continental
60,640
116,070
Franklin.
38,250
224,220
German American
112,770
German Savings ...
63,630
. 257,700
1 Assessed by assessor, no return being made by owner.
Name.
Value of Real Estate.
Total Value of Assessment.
International.
$12,820
$91,650
Laclede
250,000
Lafayette ..
2,200
50,000
Mullanphy Savings.
2,300
128,060
Northwestern Savings
Provident Savings.
76,290
100,000
State Savings.
54,660
1,251,640
Hotel Hunt
Mrs. E. J. Polk.
1,560
Merchant National
1,530
805,000
Valley National
Third National.
112,130
1,161,030
Laclede
Griswold & Sperry
30,600
Lafayette Park ..... Nelson Yocum.
1,140
Lindell
.Charles Scudder & Co
40,360
Mona House.
.J. H. Tomb.
11,800
Planters'
J. & J. Gerardi.
15,440
St. James.
Thomas P. Miller.
3,430
The Southern ...... The Southern Hotel Company.
61,170
Western .. M. C. Irish ...
1 8,000
Windsor .. .. Windsor Hotel Company.
6,000
Everett House ..... J. H. Hawley.
3,250
Grand Pacific ...... J. & J. Robertson
4,100
Total
11,300
Commercial.
.James H. Morris
1 7
2200 }
23
4,740
320
.........
32,510
Tower Grove.
1
......
[ 5
3500
( 6
3500
15
1500
.......
...
272,500
Fourth National ...
584,000
Value Number
Horses.
Head. Vehicles. Vehicles.
...
55,390
3000 }
.......
NAME OF COMPANY.
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SAINT LOUIS AS A CENTRE OF TRADE.
Name.
Number of Horses.
per
of
Total Value of
Head. Vehicles. Vehicles.
Kron, Aug
20
$65
10
$1,000
Lawrence & Spelbrink ..
25
40
23
2,500
Maxwell, T. & J
33
70
3
150
Meyer, Adolph ..
30
40
17
3,600
Mueller, Henry.
60
100
10
1,000
Reilly & Walfort
161
64
4
200
Scheele, HI. & Son.
20
80
10
5,000
Scott & Lynch.
30
60
20
4,000
Wright, George C.
20
100
9
3,600
Sloan & Ellis.
80
37
4
250
Wolfinger, John & Co
22
75
14
500
The territory of which St. Louis is recognized as the natural commercial and business metropolis is indicated in the following table, with the miles of rail- road they had in the years 1870 and 1879, respec- tively :
States.
Miles in 1870.
Miles in 1879.
Kentucky (one-half) ..
558
797
Tennessee (one-half)
746
850
Mississippi (one-half).
495
570
Louisiana (one-half)
225
272
Illinois (one-half)
2411
3,789
Missouri
2000
3,740
Arkansas
256
804
Texas
711
2,591
Kansas (one-half).
750
1,052
Total
8052
14,465
In the ten years from 1870 to 1879 there was con- structed in the territory we have set down as tribu- tary to St. Louis six thousand four hundred and thir- teen miles of railroad.
The increase of population in the territory of which St. Louis is the natural commercial metropolis in the ten years from 1870 to 1880 was as follows, the fig- ures in all instances being from the United States census :
States.
1870.
1880.
Kentucky (one-half).
660,505
824,354
Tennessee (one-half)
629,260
776,231
Mississippi (one-half).
413,961
565,796
Louisiana (one-half)
368,957
470,051
Illinois (one-half)
1,269,945
1,539,384
Missouri
1,721,295
2,168,804
Arkansas
484,471
802,564
Texas.
818,579
1,592,574
Kansas (one-half).
182,199
497,983
Total
6,549,192
9,237,741
the great Father of Waters and his tributaries ; that she has the material around her for building up the most extensive and most profitable manufacturing establislı- ments that the world has ever known; that all the necessaries of life, the cereal grains and pork particu- larly, are produced in all the region roundabout in such profusion that living must be always cheap, and that consequently she can support her population though it should increase to almost indefinite limits, when all these facts are considered, who can fecl dis- posed to set boundaries to her future progress ?
It will be seen in view of the territory thus tributary to St. Louis that she draws from a greater varicty of resources, from a greater extent of country, that she is the centre of more mincral wealth, more agricultural resources, and that she has the opportunity and is fast endowing herself with the instrumentalities for obtain- ing a vaster internal commerce than any other city in the Union. Her manufactures are varied in kind and character, and conducted with less expense than those of any of her sister cities. Her population has been steadily swelled by the influx of emigration ; her wares and merchandise find their market in every hamlet of the country, and compete in Europe with those of older countries. Her credit, whether munic- ipal, individual, or corporate, is unimpeached and treasured as the most valuable of her jewels. It should be borne in mind in estimating St. Louis' po- sition among the great centres of trade in this country that the territory strictly belonging to the system of rivers which empty into the Gulf of Mexico has an area of 1,683,000 square miles, including eighteen States and two Territories, with a population of 22,- 000,000, which is increasing at the rate of about thirty-two per cent. every ten years ; and that this great region produced 300,000,000 out of the 450,000,000 bushels of wheat grown in the whole country in 1880, besides 1,200,000,000 bushels of corn out of a total produce for the same year of 1,500,000,000 bushels. The collection of this grain into the granarics of St. Louis is being carried on by the energetic men who have banded together to accomplish the great object of improving the trade and importance of their city. Elsewhere the transportation facili- ties and the storage capacity of the city have been fully described. This business, for which rail and river are competing, is vast enough for the capacity of both, and must in a short time be greatly in excess of the terminal facilitics afforded by existing lincs of communication. But St. Louis has also determined to become the leading cotton market, and in view of the railroad development ministering directly to her, it is certainly no vain assertion to say that her posi-
All this territory, with New Mexico and Indian Territory still farther south, constitute a part of the vast back country of St. Louis. When it is consid- ered, therefore, that this city has such surroundings as have been here described ; that she is the very centre of the most productive agricultural region of the whole earth ; that she is in immediate proximity and of convenient access to an incxhaustible deposit of the purest iron ore in the world ; that she is at the head of navigation from the south, and at the foot of navigation from the north ; that she is sustained and impelled forward by the immensc, illimitable trade of
Value Number
992
HISTORY OF SAINT LOUIS.
tion is now first among the cotton markets of the world. The opening of Northern Texas and the whole of Arkansas to immediate connection by rail with the Missouri commercial metropolis, and the probable increase of cotton culture in the Indian Territory, will give a back country capable of producing millions of bales annually for St. Louis to draw upon. She has already become the successful competitor with Houston, Galveston, and New Or- leans for the distribution of the crop of the Southwest, and the encouragement received has justified her en- terprising citizens in constructing the most complete and extensive warehouses for cotton storage in the world. The trade of St. Louis now controls the cot- ton trade in certain sections of Arkansas and the southern portion of Missouri, and has made such se- ductive bids for the crop of Texas that many counties in that State regard St. Louis as their most remuner- ative market.
It was said of St. Louis in 1849 that " her com- mercial prosperity is founded very largely, if not chiefly, upon what is called the ' produce trade,' " and the territorial limits of this trade were Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.1 Thirty years afterwards St. Louis competed, as we have seen, sharply with Chicago for the trade of Northern Missouri, Kansas, Southern Nebraska, Colorado, the Territories tributary to the traffic of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and for the transcontinental trade towards the Southwest, embraced in the southern and central portions of Mis- souri, the State of Arkansas, the larger part of the State of Texas, and the northwestern section of Louisiana, with the Indian Territory, and with Cali- fornia by the Southern Pacific Railroad. New Or- leans finds in St. Louis a rival for the trade of West- ern and Northern Louisiana. The trade of the States east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio finds competition at St. Louis with New Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Chicago, as well as the principal cities of the Atlantic seaboard. The trade limits of St. Louis east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio cover Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, and include the through traffic with the States of the Atlantic sea- board and with foreign countries. It is witliin these vast territorial limits that St. Louis gathers the sur- plus products of the people, and distributes to them the supplies and general merchandise of her energetic tradesmen, merchants, and manufacturers.
The railroads which converge upon and centre at St. Louis arc the following :
1 Governor Allen's address to the directors of the Pacific Railroad.
West Roads.
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad (Missouri Division).
Missouri Pacific Railroad.
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
St. Louis, Wabash and Pacific Railway (West Branch).
South Roads.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad.
Belleville and Southern Illinois Railroad.
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Cairo and St. Louis Railroad.
East Roads.
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad (main line).
Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad.
St. Louis, Vandalia, Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad.
St. Louis, Wabash and Pacific Railway.
Illinois and St. Louis Railroad.
North Roads.
St. Louis, Wabash and Pacific Railroad (Iowa Division).
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (St. Louis Division). St. Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad.
The variations of the receipts and shipments of the commerce of St. Louis with the north are shown in the following table :
Year.
Received. Tons.
Shipped. Tons.
1871
297,680
93,842
1872
363,006
79,200
1873
353,206
80,806
1874
368,076
116,267
1875.
286,318
122,751
1876
324,947
128,629
1877
233,158
114,827
1878.
382,628
126,601
1879.
445,621
132,760
1880.
604,173
157,803
Turning to the east, we find a larger commerce even than that with the north. The total receipts from and shipments to the east were for the last decade :
Year.
Received. Tons.
Shipped. Tons.
1871.
1,219,245
545,636
1872
1,341,545
688,264
1873
1,568,719
699,048
1874
1,540,632
746,037
1875
1,542,866
750,527
1876 ..
1,510,527
1,026,291
1877.
1,634,860
927,448
1878 ..
1,770,548
1,119,406
1879.
2,041,440
1,225,895
1880 ..
2,508,704
1,325,004
From the south St. Louis received as well as shipped the following commerce :
Year.
Received. Tons.
Shipped. Tons.
1871.
1,109,801
695,531
1872.
1,392,080
836,089
1873
1,339,688
838,123
1874
1,196,534
767,819
1875
1,371,670
738,632
1876
1,310,534
696,577
1877
1,339,649
798,802
1878
1,290,606
832,018
1879
1,649,272
995,346
1880.
1,853,577
1,492,216
993
SAINT LOUIS AS A CENTRE OF TRADE.
The western commerce of St. Louis is exhibited for ten years in the following table :
Year.
Recelved. Tons.
Shipped. Tons.
1871.
555,996
395,371
1872
605,652
406,393
1873
784,620
320,695
1874
793,216
307,878
1875
595,441
328,635
1876
974,467
408,678
1877
901,206
409,443
1878
1,056,225
417,209
1879
1,215,715
608,860
1880
2,023,930
818,182
For the better comparison of the extraordinary growth of the commerce of St. Louis during the last decade, the following table groups the tonnage of all the sections :
Year.
North.
East.
South.
West.
Total.
1871. ... 391,552
1,764,887
1,805,332
951,367
4,913,102
1872 ...
442,206
2,029,809
2,228,169
1,012,045
5,712,229
1873 ....
434,012
2,267,767
2,177,811
1,105,315
5,984,905
1874 ....
484,343
2,286,069
1,964,353
1,101,094
5,835,859
1875 ...
409,069
2,293,393
2,110,302
1,024,076
5,836,840
1876 ....
453,576
2,536,318
2,007,111
1,383,145
6,380,150
1877 ....
347,985
2,562,308
2,138,451
1,310,649
6,359,393
1878 ....
509,229
2,889,954
2,122,624
1,473,434
6,995,241
1879 .... 578,381
3,267,335
2,644,618
1,824,575
8,314,909
1880 .... 761,976
3,833,708
3,345,793
2,842,112
10,783,589
In these ten years the commerce of St. Louis in- creased northward from 391,522 tons in 1871 to 761,976 tons in 1880; towards the east from 1,764,881 tons in 1871 to 3,833,708 tons in 1880 ; towards the south from 1,805,332 tons in 1871 to 3,345,793 tons in 1880; towards the west from 951,367 tons in 1871 to 2,842,112 tons in 1880; and the total grew from 4,913,102 tons in 1871 to 10,783,589 tons in 1880.
The rapidity of the growth of this commerce will be more casily comprehended by considering the pro- portion of tonnage for the years 1880, 1879, and 1878 :
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