The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-28
A MINE
OF WEALTH.
The New Orleans Of To-Day Enjoys a Reputation
For Commercial Prosperity
That is Equalled by Few Cities of Its Size and In
pOrtance and Excelled by None
Its Natural Advantages MAKE 1t the Gateway Of Corr
MERGE for the Mississippi Valley.
Tie Marvellous Growth Of the Sugar, Cotton and
Rice Industries Described.
How New Orleans Compares With Other American
Ports as Grain Exporting Point.
Its Wharfage and Railroad FacilitisS--Increase in
Its Wharfage and Railroad Facilitiss--Increass in
the Volume Of The Commission Bnsiness==Its
Street PayemsntS and Other Local Features.

New Orleans, the Queen City Of the
Southland. the FL Dorado Of mechan-
&c. merchant and manufacturer, oc-
eupies place in the commercial
world unassallable from every stand
point. Neither the encroachments OF
high water nor the terrible Influences
VI financial etifngency can complete
~ bar the road TO prosperity. Visited
often BY misfortunes that would
overwhelm other communities. the
Crescent City yet continues 70 adj
vance. slowly perhaps. but surely.
New Orleans has been calamity
cursed eince the closing OF the bust
ness year Of 1886. but no man within
ats confines to-day can faithfully de-
clare but thai
1T HAS MADE RAPID STRIDES IN
A TwELvEMoNrH.
Not only have its tradesmen been
compelled to battle against the adj
verse influence engendered by the
suspension OF four supposedly strong
banking institutions. but they have
had 10 combat with starvation in "a
temporarily sterile section of the
State, and the rapidly rising and
threatening river. These mlsfortunes
themselves reveal the abiding faith
OF the people in the present welfare
and future advancement OF the me-
tropolis OF the Gulf States. From the,
ashes OF one OF the banking institu>
tlons above alluded to (wrecked
through the dishonesty OF its trust
ed servants) a substantial and solid
financial edifice has risen. 1t Is to-
day one OF the institutions TO
WHICH ORLEANIANS POINT
WITH PRIDE.
What the Daily Item In It's special
business edition OF 1896 said OF the
Crescent City may be repeated now
VITA much stronger emphasis. While
II cannot be said that New Orleans
has experienced one OF those sudden
booms which, treacherou,s and decep-
tive. bursts at the very time that the
outlook seems most propItious. il can
be trughfully stated that commercial
~etrogression Is unknown here. The
Advancement is as steady as men OF
good business acumen desire it TO be.
and above all. 1t Is unfailing. One
OF the most terrIUie DIOns ,terrloie
alike IN its effect upon the people ana
upon the commercial standing of the
clty). dealt New Orleans la many
years. was the decision of the SUI
preme Court in the Illinois Central
dock matter. IL was blow that
staggered commerce; a blow that was
felt not here alone.
BUT IN EVERY GRAIN-BEAR-
ING STATE IN THE WEST.
blow taat-snook the Commercial
world from centre to circumference.
But the Crescent city survived it. II
10 true that a desperate struggle for
the maintenance OF the rights for
merry exercised by the railroad on
the river nont Ia IN progress. and
there II every prospect that The OUT
come OF this agitation viii b. the per
petuaticn Of TIE privileges given the
corporation. New Orleans has an in
teresl in the matter Of which Il -
impossible 90 give an adequate idea
IN words. and its people will move
Heaven and earth 10 secure what
they deem necessary TO the advance
ment OF the commonwealth TIVE de-
rislon OF the Supreme court. declar-
ing that the Council had not fhe right
10 grant exclusive wharf privileges 10
narsons or corporations for an indefi-
Mite period Of years, paralyzed for
fisne the export trade Of the citv
mt the shippers speedily rallied and
TO-DAY are
NEARING UP MANFuLLY
AGAINST THE INFLU-
ENCES OF THIS
BLOW.
Tns natural advantages the Cres-