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Title: The industries of New Orleans, her rank, resources, advantages, trade, commerce and manufactures, conditions of the past, present and future, representative industrial institutions, historical, descriptive, and statistical
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Morrison, Andrew
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Publisher: New Orleans, J. M. Elstner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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., was raised in the milling business, and has a most perfect understanding of itsmercantile and mechanical features. The mill, situated at the corner of Calliope and Tchoupitoulas streets, covers halfa block of land. It is equipped with a hundred horse power engine, recent machineryand all the latest expediting conveniencies for dispatching the business of the firm. Itemploys steadily forty hands, and has a capacity for cleaning 200 barrels of rice perday. Although rice is its specialty, corn and flour are also milled, and a fair share ofthe profits of the institution come from that source. Shipments of rice, grain, etc., aresolicited, and satisfaction guaranteed. The mill has a custom of its own, but its proprietors are aspiring and pushing busi-nesss men, who are always ready to seize the fleeting opportunities of commerce, andto enlarge their field of operation. The uninterrupted length of service which the■mill has had, shows the stability aud responsibility of the institution.
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The Industries of New Orleans. 173 THE HOTEL ROYAL. Rivers & Bartels, Proprietors: St. Louis, from Royal to Charires street. Reminiscent of the halcyon days of the Crescent City, and suggestive of manyhistorical events th^t took place within its walls, the Hotel Royal, formerly the St.Louis, is one of the most striking structures of the city. The foundation stone of thismagnificent building was laid in the year 1836. It was at first intended to cover theentire block, but the financial crisis of 1837 interfered with that ambitious project. Abuilding, however, was erected on the present site at a cost of $1,500,000, that forgrandeur and adaptability to its uses still compares with the most modern erectionshere or elsewhere. In 1841 a fire destroyed the whole building, but the enterprise ofthat day, equal even to this trying emergency, soon replaced it, and it shortly becameone of the most celebrated houses of the South. A description of this house published many years ago says: One

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