The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical . he buildings, attending to and adorning the ground, collectingexhibits, etc., are responsible for the details of management in their respec-tive positions: E. A. Burke, director-general and chief executive officer. F. C. Morehead, commissioner-general. G. M. Torgeson, supervising N. Ogden, chief superintendent. S. H. Oilman, consulting Earl, ch
The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical . he buildings, attending to and adorning the ground, collectingexhibits, etc., are responsible for the details of management in their respec-tive positions: E. A. Burke, director-general and chief executive officer. F. C. Morehead, commissioner-general. G. M. Torgeson, supervising N. Ogden, chief superintendent. S. H. Oilman, consulting Earl, chief of department of B. Loring, chief of department of , K. Bi^uce, chief of department of colored Mullen, chief of department of L. Fitch, chief of department of T. Walshe, chief of department of information and Donaldson, chief of department of ores, minerals, and Eaton, chief of department of education. Wm. H. H. Judson, chief of department of printing and W. Dabney, Jr., chief of department of Government and Stateexhibits, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, chief of department of womens i oo COXo 0> L-iM OO M E- |2l •<lo The Industries of New Orleans. 21 THE GREAT STAPLE. In connection with the topic which has just been reviewed, some ac-count of the commercial features and history of the cotton industry may notl»e out of place. The facts and figures hereafter cited are culled from all thesources at command, and ci-edit should be given to the newspapers of theday, and to the industrious pamphleteers who are showering stores of know-ledge on a book-hungry public, for the compilation of them in brief and com-prehensive form. The cotton plant, it is said, was discovered growing wild on the banks ofthe Mississippi by the first explorers of that region. It must have been in-digenous to America, for the Aztec Mexicans manufactured really fine
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