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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate????was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring more commerce to the railroads than they take from them. . . . I challenge the roads to produce one instance of a freight train taken off by water competition...