Steamboat Building

[Editorial]...The editor of the Evansville Journal asks, if boats can be built so much better and cheaper at New Albany than elsewhere, why persons go to Cincinnati, Pittsburg, &c., to have them built?...It is a fact that nearly all the boats running in the Alabama rivers, the Louisiana bayous, and the great portion of the first class boats running on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers below the falls are built here; and that New Albany boats bear off the palm in swiftness, durability, neatness, and comfort is every where conceded.. The editor of the Journal asks us to point out the advantages of New Albany for steamboat building. We can do so in a very few words: the timber procured here is the most suitable for the purpose of any found in the west; there are a large number of experienced stamboat builders, among whom those having contracts to give out can take their choice; the foundries here are on the most extensive scale, and especially prepared to do this description of work; and finally, we are immediately below the Falls, where boats can always go down the moment they are finished, and can take immediate advantage of the first rise to go up....it frequently so happens that our large builders are compelled to refuse contracts, not being able to do all the work which is offered them. So with the foundries. It is but a little over a year since the extensive establishment of Phillips, Hise, & Co. was put in operation, yet it is crowded with work, while that of Lent, South & Shipman is doing larger business than ever....