http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0339772
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issued: 2016-11-14
issued: 1888-02
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note: STJ^FLE^IEIlSrT TO TIHCIE ?M ifrmrisco Jourtwl of Commerce 4T~ BRITISH COLUMBIA AMD SHOWING GEOLOGICAL FORMATIOM9, XOXNSKAXi BSBOBLDa, 2|a. -J-- W.D. PATTERSON CE. «UiEOFSrATUrE M/1XS ■i*" 'T ff* ■*,i" «f •» «f Y «" sfe sfi slo Tne New Orleans Exposition. Since the Centennial no exposition has ever bf aeld in the United States at all approach- its i= 't_portance that now held at New Or- ■ jans. and in fact we may say that nothing like it has ever been seen in the country before. It derives its importance partly from the importance of New Orleans, partly from its location and partly because the Crescent city is the eapi- tol of the French - descended portion of the population of the Gulf States. The situation of New Orleans is one of the finest in the world. Before the war it was the great metropolis of the South, and bids fair to be so in the future. Its population according to the census of 1880 was 216,090, and cannot now be less than 260,000. Its location at the mouth of the Mississippi and its forty-two navigable tributaries draining the heart of the North American continent is such, that nothing finer commercially can be imagined. The Mississippi and its tributaries drain twenty-one States ana Territories—has a navigable waterway of 15,710 or nearly 16,000 miles. It is the natural outlet of all the States and Territories here referred to, and their teeming millions— the place where all their industries will some day seek a market, so far as they seek a foreign one, and into the port of which shall be poured the riches of the commerce of the earth into the lap of the valley of the Father of Waters. Directly opposite, almost, to New Orleans is the mouth of one of the great rivers of South America, the mighty Orinoco, which leads navigation right into the heart of the South American continent. The tributaries of the Orinoco interlock with those of the world of waters, the Amazon, while the latter, by Its southern tributaries, is brought to the doors of navigation …

The San Francisco Journal of Commerce British Columbia Edition
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
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language: English
lat: 48.428333
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publisher: Victoria, B.C. : S.F. Journal of Commerce Publishing Company
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