. The Southern States. SS. JKTTIES, LOOKINc; UP THE RIVER. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES OF NEW ORLEANS. Bv Major J. Henry Behan. The advantages with which nature hasendowed New Orleans have, in a meas-ure, tended to retard, rather than pro-mote her commercial prosperity. Thischivalrous, intelligent and pleasure-lovingpeople, inhabiting- a land rich in climateand iruitful in resources, gathering inwith gentle hands the riches which cometo their doorway, might be compared tosome great monarch awaiting the tributesof treasure and products demanded ofthe provinces conquered in warfare,unlike the civili
. The Southern States. SS. JKTTIES, LOOKINc; UP THE RIVER. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRIES OF NEW ORLEANS. Bv Major J. Henry Behan. The advantages with which nature hasendowed New Orleans have, in a meas-ure, tended to retard, rather than pro-mote her commercial prosperity. Thischivalrous, intelligent and pleasure-lovingpeople, inhabiting- a land rich in climateand iruitful in resources, gathering inwith gentle hands the riches which cometo their doorway, might be compared tosome great monarch awaiting the tributesof treasure and products demanded ofthe provinces conquered in warfare,unlike the civilian ruler who sends outhis emmissaries inviting the people ofthe territories to aid in de\eloping thecommercial and industrial opportunitiesoffered. Think of a city lying near the mouthof the greatest river in the world, theentrepot of this fertile valley, reachingfrom the Gulf of Mexico to the greatlakes, extending its mighty arms fromthe Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains,gathering in with Ravanna-like avidityall the trea
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