Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — Ship Coal by Water. [ARTICLE]

Ship Coal by Water.

Memphis, Tenn. —Heavy shipments of coal from the Kentucky fields are being made by water on the Mississippi river. A single steamboat recent* ly towed 15 barges containing 9,000 tons of coal from Caseyville, Ky., to Memphis. It would have required three or four trains to have hajiled this consignment by rail.