The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-02
WAKE UP.
The Golden Opportunity that Lies at
Our Doors Rotting Venice that
Will not Send Forth her Galleys.


OUR MERCHANTS MUST REALIZE 1T,
| must wake up to the reality that there are
| friendly nations south Of US, within a few
days steam sailing, of over twenty millions
Of people, whose flour, pork, lard hams
and other produce and manufactured arti-
cles are sent to them by our Northern cities
and Europe, and not "A tug or plot on the
Mississippi River or its bar ever meets with
a steamship or sailing vessel bound direct
from New Orleans to half Of these coun-
tries. The avenue is open; the tolls less,
by long odds, than by eny other route; the
market is there, and "New Orleans
steamship line" will prove a source of
the whole farming and commercial interests
Of the exhaustless producing valley of the
Mississippi and to New Orleans. 1t re-
quires Southern and Western merchants
but little thought to certify to the fact of
the great natural waterway advantages Of
New Orleans and St. Louis for controlling
the coffee trade of the Mississippi Valley,
connected as they are with the Mississippi
atfinents and tributaries, and radiating rail
roads west of the Appalachian chain to the
western borders of the Pacific and this
same "New Orleans line" will carry in
return for it (if for nanght else but bal
lastD the productions Of the vast Missis-
sippi Valley. ....
The grain and produce, geographical and
water positions of New Orleans enables her
to give
CHEAPER AND BETTER FREIGHT FACILITIES
in the article Of flour and other produce than
any grain mart in the world, and the people
Of the West Indies and South America in
cline most favorably for the Southern trade
of the United States. In fact, they are vi
tally interested in the receipt of the Missis-
sippl Valley products, via New Orleans. In
a few short years these two cities should en-
tirely monopolize the centre of the growing
demands for the coffee and -four trade to and |
from the neighboring South American repub-
lies.
The overlooking bins and granaries Of the
West need paying channels, not those via
railroads or canals, which for charges cost
three-fourths Of the price realized on sales,
but one with through water route, with
only one transshipment, and that at New
Orleans, whether from st. Louis or St. Paul,
Omaha or the intermediate cities and towns
and whereby wear and tear, loss by hand
ling and attrition, storage, dLsyage, insu-
rance, interest and commissions are avoided
for the barges and steamers bringing this
produce to New Orleans will be unloaded
direct from them into the steamships hold.
Last year (1572) 32l, 2s2 bags Of coffee
entered the Mississippi Valley through the
ports of New Orleans, Mobile and Galveston.
1T IS WELL KNOWN
that very large percentage Of all the
coffee that enters into New York, Baltimore
and Philadelphia is sent West for consump-
ton, that there is no question but that the
demand for coffee is increasing, that the
Valley consumption and demand
for coffee would to-day fully furnish ton
mage for line of weekly steamships with
coffee freight, and it is equally certain, that
The demand for flour alone would furnish
such line with more than the carrying
of tonnage of its steamers. At
present few Baltimore and New York firms
entirely monopolize this flour trade and vet
t is an irlefutabe fact that St. Louis -four
AN be placed in all the above mentioped
,orts of Jamaica and Trinidad, should this
steamship line be established, at prices
which would drive these Northern brands
# flour entirely ont of the markets.