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100 barrels of pork at $40........ 4,000 40 barrels of molasses at $40...... 1,600 Clothing for 100 hands, at $50..... 5,000 50 first class mules, at $150........ 7,500 Wagons and farming implements.... 3,500 Oxen and cows................... 1,500 5,000 bushels of corn, at $1......... 5,000 Hay and fodder................. 1,500 Overseer's wages................. 2,000 Assistant Overseer's wages.......... 800 Medicines, medical attendance, &c... 1,500 Carpenter's tools, cooking utensils... 1,000 Lumber............................ 1,000 Incidentals........................ 1,500 Fee simple of land, at $20 per acre... 25,000 ------ Total...................$74,400 PROFITS. 1,000 bales of cotton--400 pounds each--at 30 cents..............$120,000 7,500 bushels of corn at $1........ 6,500 50 mules, at $100 each.......... 5,000 Oxen and cows.................... 1,000 Carpenter's tools, &c............ 500 Fee simple of land.............. 25,000 Total..................$158,00 Deduct expenses................... 74,400 ------ Net profits...................... $83,600 Say but half of the above crop--20[[?]] pounds to the acre --[[?]] made, and the profits would still be $2[?],000, or almost the cost of the land, which, with the certain development of the South must increase in value. WESTERN STEAMBOAT DISASTERS.-- The following is a list of the steamboats that have been on western and southern water since the first of December last Belle Memphis...............$100,000 Warsaw....................... 75,000 City of Pekin.................50,000 Prairie Rose..................20,000 Viola.........................9,000 J. Parkisson..................10,000 Little Julia..................5,000 Nebraska......................20,000 Hattie May....................46,000 [[Ferry Boat?]]...............45,000 [[Sugar ?]] No. 3.............20,000 Three wharfboats[?]...........27,000 Rosaile.......................45,000 Ten Barges....................30,000 Diadem........................18,000 Niagara sunk by collision.....12,000 Li[?]ie Tate, sunk............25,000 Ben Stickney..................150,000 [[??]], sank--since raised....10,000 Commercial, sunk..............10,000 Miami, exploded...............28,000 Eleanora Carroll, burned......130,000 Tuscaloosa Observer February 10th 1866
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right edge is cut off maybe by a letter or number, so where you see "4,00", it really means "$4,000", not "$4.00" . I added the "0", as you can slightly see some of them down the right side.