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STEAM-BoATs IN THE WEsT.-An off, cial copy of steam boats on the Western waters on the lst of January 1884, gives the whole number 234, whose aggregate amount of toaage is equal to 39,0o0 tons. They have cost $3, ,00e, ,0e0-th the total an- nual expenses of running them is $4,500,- 000- 66 boats went est of service during 183l-'32 and B. Of these:-15 were abandoned as unfit for service, were lost by ice; l5 were burned 24 were snagged, and ) were destroyed by other boats. Thus 5l boats were lost by accidents.

 The investment in these boats are now decidedly unproftable-the business is over- done-and though of inealealable adyan- tage to the valley of the Mississippi, they are too often the ruin of their owners.