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ciate for any one familiar with the shipping of 

 that city, of Boston, Baltimore, and Philadel- 

 phia, of Newport News and San Francisco, of 

 Seattle and Tacoma, and Galveston. And yet 

 one cannot fail to see how great has been the 

 neglect of the Mississippi River as a common 

 carrier. There is not, I venture to say, another 

 civilized nation on the globe that would so 

 ignore such an opportunity. 



The shipments from the port of New 

 Orleans are of many kinds, chief among them 

 being cotton, sugar and rice, while grain and 

 flour are exported in large quantities. Some 

 indication of the development possible in the 

 export trade from this port in the products of 

 the earth is seen in the fact that, in 1901, New 

 Orleans exported nearly twenty-five millions 

 of bushels of wheat, as against a little over 

 three million bushels the year before. 



Cross the remaining half of the continent 

 from New Orleans and study the export situa- 

 tion in the city of San Francisco. Here, in- 

 deed, you will find wholly different conditions, 

 but you will find, as in New Orleans, that the 

 traffic is but in its infancy. A battle royal is 

 on in San Francisco and in the other north 



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