{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2356, "word_count": 409, "ccnet_language_score": [0.964900016784668], "ccnet_perplexity": [869.5999755859375], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
The Union is the name of a new steamboat just completed under the superInlendance ol Capt. BAR TON, and is now ready for her first trip. The hull was built few months since on the Cahawba river, and is the second boat launched from that point with in few years. The Natips was the first, and has satisfactorily proven, from the good service she has performed, that our own forests furnish good tim Der for such purposes the north and west The Union is handsomely fitted up with state rooms, is of light draft, will carry about 1000 bales cotton, and a whole will not suffer by comparison with most of the western built boats. She is intended for the Cahawba river trade, but during the low water stage will run the Alabama. w c hope Capt. Barton and those associated with him will receive the reward they deserve for their enter prise.

 Captain Barton, who is native of this State, and whose knowledge ofriveI nasi gaon runs back to il period when steamboat had not displaced he slow creeping barge, is sangurne that the day is not dis tan when steamboat building in this State, pallicu- larly on the Cahawba river, will constitute large and profitable business. It is known that timber of a II kinds, such AS pine. cypress oak cedar, walnut, cherry and poplar can be procured chenPly and at convenient distances from various points on the Ca hawba. Then again, there is large scope of coun- try bordering that river, Intersectet in every di recton with streams winch afford unsurpassed water power, where the richest iron ore abounds in vast quantities, yielding iron superior for purposes to the best Swedes. In the same region, contiguous to the iron ore, extensive bitumnons coal beds ex- ist, the quality of which has been pronounced by competent judges to be superior to English any other similar coal With these natural advantages profusey scattered country renowned lor health and cheap living, thmk with Capt. Bar ton, notwithstanding the numerous and painful evi- dences we have of the general apathy of our people in regard to many obvious improvements in matters of local interest, that the tune will when tensive iron foundres and forges will be established among us. Then ofcourse, there would exist no ob- stacIe to the building and equppng complete ofboals equal in all respects 10 those built for by the western people and at cheap rates.