Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of the Canal Commissioners to His Excellency, Shelby M. Cullom, Governor of Illinois: December 1, 1877
Owing to the short crop of 1876, in the districts along the canal and river, the carriage, of grain was necessarily small, as compared with years of a more abundant production. We anticipate for the coming year a large increase of shipment of grain.
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