Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-23
THE FUTURE THE CRESCENT CITY
AND UPPER HISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

Chamber of Commerce.
THE FUTURE OF THE CRESCENT CITY
AND UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
THE establishment of a line of steam
ships between New Orleans and Havre
was celebrated with great eclat on board
the "Depuy de Lome," the pioneer of
the new line, at New Orleans on the 18th
inst The important bearing the event
has on the future of the agricultural and
industrial interests of the Northwest, will
hardly be appreciated by the present
generation. The arrival and departure
of steamship of the tonnage capacity
of the "Dupuy DeILome" is not only an
important event in itself, but also as the
result Of one of the grandest scientific
achievements of the age---the construc-
ton of the Eads jetties. 1t is remark
able circumstance that after the lapse of
generations, the commerce of the French
nation should be the first benefited by
the theory of Pouger as reduced
to practice and utilized by Eads.
1t is also rather a remarkable circum-
stance, that with the humiliation of the
shipping interests of this country, French
bottoms, subsidized by the French gov
ment, should come to the rescue of our
foreign commerce, and necessitate the
initial step in the work of d recting the
export grain movements of the North
west and the Pacific Slope to their legiti-
mate channels.
The same issue of the New Orleans
Times Democrat from which we gather
the particulars of the Inauguration Of ttis
steamship line between that city and
Havre, gives also an account o. the clear
ing of slip for Barcelona with full
cargo of California wheat brought to
that city by the Texas Pacific railroad
Notwithstanding the active aud
open opposition OF tie rail
road interests of the North west
trending eastward from the Mississippi
river, the problem of the cheap Transport
tation Of the surplus products of this Val
ley to foreign markets is being slowly but
surely solved under the operation of the
natural laws of trade. Referring
to the future of New Or
leans as influenced by the diver
sion of the export movements Of the sur
plus products of the Northwest and the
Pacific slope from the Pacific and Atlantic
seaboards to New Orleans, Mr. Forstall,
prominenent shipping merchant of that
city, said:
French genius first conceived the idea of
those jetties, which American genius and en-
terprise, personiied by Capt. Eads and his
company, have put into execution SO as to
realize the fact that our port to-day is
open to the largest ships in the
world, and gives us the pleas
ure of seeing fastened to one of our wharves
such shipas the "Dupuy de Lome,'' which
before many days will return to Havre carry
ing as a cargo $4,000 slaves, 1000 bales OF
cotton, 1000 sacks of coffee, s0Osacks of Cali
fornia wheat and about leo Storage passen-
gers, equal to a cargo of
10,500 BALES OF COTTON.
The Dupuy de LONE will be followed by
many other steamers of the same class, which
French shipyards will have to furnish us, in
asmuch as what had been foreseen by the
illustrious men who chose New Orleans S a
site is being to-day realized. New Orleans is
not only destined to be, but will be in a near
future, the most important shipping port
after New York, of the whole country. We
are, in fact, confident that before long
the company which we have the honor
to represent will find out that
stoppages at New York, but, on the contrary,
it will have to multiply its departures and
double the number of its steamers, SO as to
keep up with the
WANTS OF OUR COMMERCE.
Mr.. Forstall then eloquently referred to the
great fleets OF barges carrying hither the
riches of the Mississippi valley, to the numer-
ous railroads in process of termination carry
ing here the wealth of the whole country.
He referred particularly to the ship now lay
ing at the wharf of the Texas Pacific road with
full load of California wheat, about to start
for Barcelona, and expressed the conviction
that it would be followed by many others,
come to seek here for the purpose of furnish
ing the granaries of Europe with the rich
harvests which will be brought to us by the
railroads from California and Texas and by
the barges on the Mississippi.
ALI that Mr.. Forstall says of New
Orleans and to the merchants and bust
ness men generally of that city, with
reference to the future development of
the export and domestic grain move
ments of that city, applies with equal
force to st. Paul and the business men
who direct her commercial and industrial
interests. 1t was not until after the
arrival of foreign built sail and steam
ships at the wharves of New Orleans
seeking return cargoes Of grain, that the
merchants of that city were aroused to a
full realization of the possibilities of its
future as grain market. And we fear
that it will not be until after Mr.. Henry
Willard has closed the mountain gap in
his great trans-continental railway few
months hence, and the golden cereals of
the Pacific Slope are passing our
very doors en- route to Europe
otG the seaboard ports, that
the business interests of our city will
become aroused to the vital Importance
of making st. Paul the entrepot for the
reception of the surplus cereals of the
great empire, extending from the lakes
westward to the ocean, en- route to
Europe ola New Orleans. To the I'M
provement of the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi and the establishment of a barge
line to ply between St. Paul and New
Orleans, our business men should bend
their united efforts in order to meet the
important changes and responsibilities
which the completion of Mr.. Villard's
grand railway enterprise will impose on
them.
tGpfrb+ rovoI1v d;d
and [ suffered dreadfully," said Dan. Emmett
of Leavitt's GigaHtean MinstreIs; est. Jacobs