"Canal Navigation commenced," Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 21 Apr 1824  Canal Navigation commenced. - The cheering and enlivening sounds of the bugle - the crackings of the teamsters' whips - the continued arrival and departure of stranger, and the busy and anxious looking phizes of our villagers. remind us, while we sit quietly in our office, pondering over "matters...

    Three mails  are now received at this place, daily - two on the canal, and one by way of Canandaigua....

  "Canal Steam Boats," Lyons Advertiser (Lyons, NY), 2 Jul 1824  Canal Steam Boats. - The steamboat "Erie Canal" passed this village on Wednesday last, on her way to the west. There are different opinions with regard to the practicability of employing steamboats on the canal - that is, whether, notwithstanding the cheapness of fuel, they can be made to perform...

  "Weighing Locks," Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 4 Aug 1824  Weighing Locks. - The Locks for weighing boats in the vicinity of this village, are now completed and ready for operation. Their construction is founded upon the known principles of hydrostatics, that the whole weight of a body, which will float as fluid, is equal to as much of the fluid, as the...