Fort Coffee. ........ ........ 603 Mouth Grand river. 5 724 11 508 Choctaw Agency. .... 15 618 Fort Gibson .... 4 729 .... .... .... .... ...... Illinois Bayou·· .... ........ .... .... .... Many of the smaller streams in the interior of the State are navigable short distances for light draught steamboats. The Osage is navigable a part of the year to Taborville, in St. Clair county. The Gasconade penetrates the pine region, and with little improvement might be rendered the highway through which the great pine forest of Southern Missouri could find market. White river, in the Southeast, is also navigable, at certain seasons, for boats drawing less than two feet water. By damming and locking, many of these streams could be rendered navigable nearly all summer. This, probably, will be done in the course of time; but at present railroads absorb all the capital available for internal improvements. For the purpose of exhibiting the amount of river commerce connected with the port of St. Louis, we subjoin the following table: 250 449 Roseville .... 3 511 458 Ozark.. .... ........... ...... 10 521 465 Crawford's C. H ......... .... 25 546 473 John Degen's Landing .... ........ 21 567 Weber Falls. 6 684 478 Van Buren•• .... ...... .... ........ 5 572 Taylor's Falls. .... .... 5 689 486 Fort Smith.. ........ .... .......... 581 Frozen Rock. ......... .... 25 714 491 Wilson's Rocks. .... 16 597 Rabbit Shoals. .... 719 6 497 603 Mouth Grand river. 5 724 11 508 Choctaw Agency .... 15 618 Fort Gibson .... 729 |