“We yesterday inspected two new canal boats, the ‘Philo Osgood’ and ‘Mason Cook’ built by A. M. Baker & Son, at the Inlet. They are staunchly built of oak, and finely finished inside and oat. The cabins especially are well finished. They are furnished with bunks, closets, clothes presses, mirrors and everything both convenient and tasty. Mr. J. A. Jarvis touched them up with some very handsome oak graining, a thing unusual in the finish of a canal boat. Mr. Baker has the reputation among canal men of making a first class boat, and his boats are generally contracted for before they are built. These two brought $4,500 each; the ‘Philo Osgood’ was purchased by Capt. Wm. Cress, of Ilion, and the ‘Mason Cook,’ by Capt. S. G Pike of Oriskany. They have a capacity for carrying 10,000 bushels of grain, each.”