Trustworthy statistics as to the amount and character of the
Western river trade have never been gathered
Trustworthy statistics as to the amount and character of the
Western river trade have never been gathered. They are to be
found, if anywhere, in the reports of the collectors of customs
located at the various Western ports of entry and departure.
Nothing indicates more definitely the hour when the West awoke
to its first era of big business than the demand for the creation
of ‘districts’ and their respective ports, for by no other means
could merchandise and produce be shipped legally to Spanish
territory beyond or down the Mississippi or to English territory
on the northern shores of the Great Lakes.
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