SHENANDOAH STEAMBOAT COMPANY.– The river Shenandoah, which empties from the Virginia side into the Potomac, at Harper’s Ferry, it seems, is to be navigated by steamers. A company has been formed called the Shenandoah Steamboat Company, and at a meeting of the stockholders on the 8th instant, its president, James Castleman, Esq. was appointed to collect all the subscriptions, and to contract for a steamboat to be run on the Shenandoah. The Winchester Virginian says:
“What kind of a boat it is to be, or on what portion of the river it is to run, we are not informed. If built east of Harper’s Ferry, it will have to be a propeller or fitted with a stern wheel, as the locks of the canal are but sixteen feet wide. A steamer can be built to carry a considerable load without drawing more water than the river will afford for eight or nine months of the year. A flour boat, from Warren, went to Harper’s Ferry the other day, carrying two hundred barrels of flour, and drawing fourteen and a half inches.”
