Six-year-old Allison McLelland of Meridian, poses for her mother, Nicole McLelland, to snap a photo on the grounds of the Mississippi Welcome Center Thursday as a barge passes on the Mississippi River between Mississippi and Louisiana. The western bank, in the background, shows the spacious sandbar left by the low river. The river in Vicksburg this morning, which is not indicative of negative effects on commerce because of dredging, registered at 4.0 feet. The record low of negative 7 was set in 1940.