Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-04-16
Our Exposition Letter.


New ORLEANS, La, April IS, 1885.
What sad place is a great city!
How weary one grows of seeing its
squalor and poverty, the beggar sitting
in rags on the steps of the grandest ed
iiiccs, or holding out his hand for pit
tance in the midst of the gay and
crowded thoroughfare. Riches and
poverty, vice and virtue, ayarce and
charity, shuttle each other,s side by side;
here the gamblers den robbing the m-
wary-there the almshouse open to re-
ccive him; vice opening her gates at
nightfall to lure thoughtless victims to
ruin, and the temple hard by, pleading
with the sinner to enter its friendly por-
tails and be saved. Nowhere else are
so many phases of human nature so
clearly, so vividly portrayed nowhere
so much of good and evil so closely
seen yet so immcasurably scparated;af-
ter all,there is more real pleasure, more
of contcntmcnt and happiness in the
rural village, or on the isolated home
stead "far from the maddening crowds
OF ignoble strife.' New Orleans is much
given TO pleasure and gayety, and her
thcaters, club-rooms, race-tracks and
other resorts, are daily, nightly crowd.
ed with thousands Of votarics. TO ac-
commodatc the all night rcyclers the
street cars run all through the twenty
four hours, so that only when sleep re-
licvcs the ear can you be out Of hearing
of the miserable rumbling of their
wheels, "thc voice Of the night being
anything but poetic, in the Crescent
city. This, ,howevcr,iS II depression and
must return to the Exposition,
In the Dairy department of the main
building stands the statue of the noted
lady Mrs. Lot who so far forgot herself
rs to look over the left shoulder at the
moon, or something and was forthwith
transformed into pillar of salt In
quiry reveals the fact that Lots wife
in this case, was erected by one of the
greatest salt companies in America.
whose Subterrancan mountains of Rock
Salt are situated near New Iberia, La,
about 100 miles west of this city. II
will interest and surprise the reader to
learn that there is there in sight, de
post, or solid mass of pure salt which.
according TO an engineers report is
equal to the enormous weight of 1885,
G2j, 900 tOnS,an amount ,onc would sup
pose, sufficient to purify and preserve
the politics. rs well as the meat of
the entire country. But this is only
mere fraction of the astonishing miner
al wealth of state which has never
once been classed as q mineral region,
SO little attention having ever been call
ed to the ores and metal deposits of
Louisiana. In her matchless geologic
al exhibit are shown samples of almost
pure sulphur, ,assaying from 62 to Oper
cent and found in beds III feet thick
specimens of iron ore some of which ii
almost pure metal, running as high as
50 per cent;ot building stone, used large
ly in New Orleans and other cities of
the state there are incXhauStiblc guam
ttics;and of marlS, alum and other USE
full minerals, the state has an abundant
supply.
In the results certain to follow this
Exposition, no state is likely to profit
more deciSivcly than Louisiana. Her
location at the extremity of river navi-
CATION, containing the metropolis of the
South, her genial climate, fertile, and as
yet largely undcvclopcd soil, and re-
sources almost limitleSs in quantity, all
invite both population and capital,
which will not be slow in taking advan-
tdgc of her natural wealth to make for
tunes for themselves and build up the
state. Ii is to this state the country has
usually looked for its best sugar and
syrups, noted always for their superior
quality, and vet. vast as these products
are, they constitute but fraction of her
productive wealth. While she turned
ont 22l ,jl3 hogshcads of sugar in 1888,
II is believed that her rice crop of 1884
amounts to fully 100000 barrels and in
all mechanical departments she is max.
ing rapid advancemcnts, as well. On
an obclisk in her exhibit are writtcn,in in
large cheering type,thc names of about
seventy mechanical industries which
are operated or pursued by her people
: and that these will be more than quad.
J, rupled within the next decade, car
scarcely admit of doubt, since the at
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